- Blenocarpus. | CIV. PROTEACEJE, 541 
entirely free from the walls of the pericarp, except at the point of attachment of- the 
| seed, forming a portion of the latter, not of the former, and has therefore no title to the 
name of a dissepiment, real or spurious, still given to it in systematic works, even in 
the Prodromus. 
28. BANKSIA, Linn. f. 
. Flowers hermaphrodite, Perianth regular or nearly so, straight or 
curved, the slender tube opening equally or along the lower side only, 
. the limb ovoid oblong or pees the laminæ remaining long coherent, 
or rarely separating as the tube opens. Anthers narrow, sessile in the 
| concave laminæ, the connective thick, usually very shortly produced 
beyond the cells. Hypogynous scales 4, very thin and membranous 
(rarely deficient ?). Ovary very small and sessile; style usually longer 
than the perianth, rigid, curved and protruding from the slit in the 
perianth-tube until the end is set free by the separation of the lamine, 
and then either straightened or remaining hooked or curved, rarely 
straight from the first and not exceeding the perianth ; the stigmatic 
end on a level with the anthers, of a different texture but smooth, or 
‘striate and furrowed, continuous with the style or with a prominent rim 
_ at the base, the real stigma small and terminal; ovules 2, collaterally 
attached about the middle. Fruit a compressed capsule, opening at 
ar of t 
the broad end (or rather outer margin, for the sc 
or on short lateral branches; each pair of flowers subtended by one 
tract and two lateral rather smaller bracteoles, both bracts and 
