48 NATIVE HONEYSUCKLES OR BANKSIAS. 
of leaves from one to four inches. Flowers along and around a 
cylindric axis, densely crowded into a large oval-cylindric mass, 
or by a shortened axis occasionally the inflorescence may become 
Fie. XXI. 
Fie. XXI.—1, ripe fruit; 2, longitudinal section of top 
of flower-spike ; 3, unexpanded flower ; 4, expanded flower ; 
5, bract; 6, sepal with its stamen; 7, pollen-grain; 8, fruit- 
let ; 9, septum; 10, seed; 11, embryo. 
almost globu- 
lar; flowers divi- 
ded (as in other 
proteaceous 
plants) into four 
calycine or peta- 
line segments, 
which are less 
than an inch 
long, contiguous 
(not — overlap- 
ping) at their 
margin before 
expansion, and 
silky outside ; 
the uppermost 
portion of the 
segments  di- 
lated, at first 
curved down- 
ward and bear- 
ing each one 
stamen ; the 
other portion of 
the segments 
very narrow and 
for a while form- 
ing a_ slender 
tube. Anthers 
nearly sessile, 
narrow - ellip- 
soid, with an 
additional small 
blunt apex, and 
