454 CIV. PROTEACEA. [ Grevillea. 
about 3 lines long. Perianth unknown. Torus very oblique. Gland 
rominent, thick, obliquely semiannular. eek mer 
large and lateral. Fruit 2 to 2} in. long, rather ard. hard, taper- 
ing at both c rouen cipue opening along the upper suture 
eed flat, oblon . long, thin but not — Mi 
ae valves. Embryo of the IL of the seed and — distant from 
both ends, the radicle | peg at the lower end.—Mo 
— einen. à in DC. Pro v. 348. 
W.A Moore river and sand plain north of Diamond river, Drummond, : 
6th coll. n. 190; “Cockleshell gully, Murchieoh river, Oldfield. 
This has been proposed as a distinct genus on the supposition that the seed was 
winged at the tie end like that of a Hakea, and that the ovule was solitary. That 
proves however to be a mistake. The ovary, fruit, and seed are pr we “those of 
h of the seed, 
rin Ae manner not 
oe other species 8, but which, in the absence of : any o p^ character can scarcely 
many allie d 
main u 
SEcT. 4. CarorHYnsus.—Racemes secund, usually terminal and 
sili yDowend, Perianth- ve more or less dilated below the middle 
e gens opening on the lower side, revolute under the lim 
very oblique, the tud ide the ‘shortest. Ovary glabrous 
spar Species all tropical, except G. Huegelii. 
ction com rises all the s us and glabrous ovary 
exce ping a very E with Tereg me er (e ng hg T Shout better 
placed in Plagiopoda with others of the same exceptional inflores scen 
67. G. quercifolia, 2. Br. Prot. Nov. 23. An sao or 
shrub of 1 to 3 ft., lanes and glaucous like 6. Synaphea but pei 
branches terete or nearly so. eaves ovate or oblong, sinuate- 
pinnatifid with short broad mucronate or pungent- -pointed lobes, 
cuneate or rarely truncate at the - "E very shortly d 
 mostl to 4 in. sometimes 5 in. long, or those of long 
branches much smaller, all prominently “veined and often f dalle 
Racemes dense, 1 to 1 in. lon , pedunculate in the upper à pe As 
4 on a long terminal leafless peduncle racts broad, Me deci iani 
or rarely more persistent. Pedic to ines depot ch 
th 
= obsolete. Ovary glabrous, on ® 
DM on the upper mar. in; style flattened ; rr ih tic disk large 
peral Meisn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 551, and in DU. Prod. xiv. 390; 6. 
brachyantha, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 81. 
