542 CIV. PROTEACES. [ Banksia, 
lower peas engen borra the nuclei of the seeds remaining | 
imbedde ng the he proportion of perfect capsules is 
dar d s iR in Enam to the number of flowers, of which thers | 
e often fróm 500 to above 1000 in the same spike. | 
ie c peus is endemic in Australia, and the greater number of apron " Mae 
two only of the Eastern species pe enetrate into the tropics, besides which is exclu- 
sively tropica al, ifit be really more than a variety of the most widely diffused of the 
Secr. 1. Oncostylis.— Leaves linear or rarely tine Se epe usn z margins or 
-y A but 9 white underneath, entire denticulate or pinnate with small nume- 
ous regular se ts. Style remaining hooked after aa eed limb has opened, 
the stigmatic indi -— mall. 
Vica villous, en than ura as long as the e the limb 
us. Leaves small, enti Western spec 
Perianth ne bout 4 lines Mig: aive inline m or ierit } to 
in. lon 1. B. pulchella. 
Ferien ‘tube about 3 lines long. Leaves spreading or r reflexed, cubi d 
eeding + 2. B. Meissneri. 
Perianth ibe more thaid half as long as the style, silky as well as 
Leaves linear with closely revolute entire margins and not trun- 
cen estern species. 
Leaves mostly short. Perianth under 1 in. long; Bracts 
with glabrous tips 3. B. nutans. 
Leaves mostly long. Perianth above 1 in. < Tong. Bracts en 
tirely woolly-villous 4. B. spherocarpa. 
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Leaves (2 to 4 in.) ve TAM Mas bowed revolute entire Tag 
; lous to the 5. B. tricuspis. 
Leaves (2 to 4 in.) with revolute or recured m margin 8, entire j ; 
or dontieulate t towards the end. Bracts with glabrous tips 6. B. occidentalis. 
Leaves (4 to more open, siae "E tomentose um 3 ; 
eiiis ers wohl tomentose at the end 7. B. littoralis, 
Tee abo in.) v ti 
fa jin.) very narrow with closely revolute entire IE dm 
Leaves (14 to 8 mea with closel tevoluté 
entire or id a ma ely . . 9. B. spinulosa. 
Leaves (14 to 3 in.) li near, d pen, ' showing the white 
under surfa xis i esitulado to "the b base or rare y entire . 10. B. collina. 
Leaves mostly verticillue, oblong-lanceolate or broadly linear, 
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entire or rarely t at the end, white underneath. : 
estern species 11. B. verticillata. 
Leaves pat eres with. numerous small regular contiguous but 
inct segmen 
Lats t ide 
gments broad, menn. alias small, globular or T f dryandroides. 
teat ‘segments marrow, faleate ` Spikes largo, oblong or 
cylindric 13. B. Brownii. 
; Aen d "Orton es flat or w "m the — - ot revolute ' 
Se a Pct or nearly straight and t 
peer not vt hooked, the ee end small, not striate. We stern speci cies. 
Perianth obtuse or acnte, not a 
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_ Leaves narrow, r regularly se usually white nar oa «P 
Spikes narrow. Pédanth gl dete undat 4 in.] in. long . 44. B. atem 
