380 CIV. PROTEACEJE. ( Cenarrhenes. 
Ovary sessile; style short, filiform, with a small terminal stigma; ovule 
solitary, pendulous. Fruit a e, with a succulent M and a 
hard endocarp.—Shrub or tree. aves alternate, toothed. Flowers 
in spikes, axillary or terminal, each one sessile within a small bract. 
The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Tasmania, it is, however, closely 
allied to Persoonia, differing chiefly in inflorescence and in the toothed leaves. 
. 0. , Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 90, t. 50. A tall shrub or 
small tree, attaining rarely 20 to 30 ft. (C. Stuart), quite glabrous, of a 
bright green, feetid when bruised, turning black in drying. 
obovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, coarsely toot ed, con- 
tracted into a short petiole, the midrib prominent, otherwise veinless 
axils or 
several at the ends of the branches, much shorter than the leaves, the 
rhachis often flexuose but rigid angular and quite glabrous, the flowers 
rather distant. Bracts small, ovate-triangular, concave. Perian 
ovule. pe very succulent, globular, about 4 in. diameter.—R. Dr. 
in Trans, Linn. Soc. x. 159, Prod. 371; Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 328; 
i. 820. 
Tasmania. Shaded woods, Recherche Bay, Macquarrie harbour and Mountains + 
us interior, A. Cunningham, Gunn, Milligan, and others, but not gathered by 5 
Town, 
19. PERSOONIA, Sm. 
(Linkia, Cav.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth regular, cylindrical in the bud or 
constricted above the base, the segments free or nearly so, recurved in 
Anthers 
or rarely 1, orthotropous, pendulous with short funicles and 
, one ovule with a longer funicle or attached lower dow 
With the exception of a single New Zealand species the genus is limited - E p 
Sect. 1. Pyenostyles.— Style shor i he ovary, vant be 
| e tyle short, o as thick as the © tie segment below 
— at the end, bu the stigma in a ec of the upper perian : 
the anther. Species estern except P. falcata. : 
