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TRIBE 2. CONOSPERMEÆ.—Anthers: one with 2 perfect cells, two 
with 1 perfect and 1 abortive cell, the fourth abortive, the perfect cells 
road, concave, erect, without any connective, the adjoining ones of 
distinct anthers applied face to face, so as to form in the bud one cell; 
all on very short thick filaments at the base of the lamine or summit 
of the perianth-tube. Ovule 1. Fruit a dry nut. 
5. SYNAPHEA, R. Br. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth oblique or incurved, the tube 
short, the segments separating, the u per one with an erect ovate or 
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Stamens inserted at the base of the lamina, the fil ts short and 
thick. Anthers of the lowest stamen with two distinct cells, of the lateral 
stamens with one cell each, the cells concave, eac the late 
anthers when in bud facing the adjoining one of the lower anthers and 
forming but one cell wit it, but separating as wer opens; the 
Upper anther abortive and replaced a small membrane connecti 
the filament with the posterior margin of the stigma. Ovar 1-celled, 
crowned by a tuft of eland-like hairs, with one laterally attac ed ovule. 
Style filiform, dilated at the end into an oblique disk, stigmatic on m 
^ on t lov on g eti a 
e-like dilatation at the base, the lamina entire or. divided, wi 
itted all over by minute reticulations, Flowers 
or branched, y 
sheathing scale, being the base of an abortive leaf. 
The genus is limited to extratropical West Australia, ver distinct as a whole fro 
DA: cies. ith the exception of S. 
in a single individual as 
ymorpha and 8. pi age i st as variable 
pinnata, the foliage is almos sha, and ‘etainetio. die 
He. size of the flowers, very little of specific distinction except them 
fret or stigmatic end of the style, and even these are sometimes not very 
pekes simpl i iol: . 1. S. polymorpha. 
Terres x as js T the poy petiolate floral leaves . 
petioles, Flowering branches long, leafless, 
nched. ‘ 
Stigma i 
ase of the peti i i . Leaves most] : 
: Malis di ee om. as pole amm 7 AUR allata. 
Whole plant glabrous or the base of the petioles slightly silky. 8 
pti except the lowest deeply lobed or divided. . . . 3. . favosa. 
" à produced into a single oblong incurved entire or 2-lobed fc Bveinll 
appendage. Leaves with long diverging lobes . + + - 4. S. Pressi. 
