GENERA AND SPECIES. 
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b, Leaves scattered ; bracts numerous similar to 
the leaves. 
A much branched shrub with oblong or elliptical silky 
leaves 
ORDER PROTEACEAE. 
1. Fruit an indeshiscent nut or drupe. 
Flowers in dense cone-like spikes, each within a bract; 
fruit dry; anthers all perfect; ovules 1, rarely 2. 
Bracts firmly adherent to the axis of the cone 
Bracts closely imbricate after FORTIN, Ae 
falling off with the nut 
Flowers solitary or few together, each ited an invo- 
lucre of 4 to 8 bracts; fruit dry; anthers all perfect 
Flowers solitary, axillary, without bracts; fruit a 
drupe; ovules 2, rarely 1; anthers all perfect 
Flowers in short spikes, terminal, each supported by a 
bract; one of the anthers perfect, 2 imperfect, the 
fourth abortive; fruit dry, terminated by a tuft of 
hairs; ovule 1 na 
i. Fruit bursting by 1 or 2 sutures, 2-seeded. 
Fruits distinct and follicular. 
Seeds rarely winged; fruits coriaceous; inflor- 
escence racemose, usually terminal " 
Seeds with a large black wing; fruits woody; in- 
florescence usually axillary 
Fruits crowded in dense cones; each fruit pester 
opening at the broad end into 2 hard woody valves. 
Seeds with a terminal wing ... 
Petrophila. 
A small erect shrub; leaves trichotomously divided 
into subulate pointed segments; flowers yellow; 
silky hairy ; sh 
Isopogon. 
Small erect shrub; leaves ternately or pinnately divided 
into linear pointed segments; flowers yellow, 
almost glabrous; involucral bracts longer than the 
floral bracts 
Adenanthos. 
Erect or somewhat prostrate shrubs, very hairy; leaves 
crowded, rather small and flaccid, of 3 to 7 linear- 
filiform, erect, segments. Calyx purplish or yellow. 
F 
ammocharis 
Petrophila 
Isopogon 
Adenanthos 
Persoonia 
Conospermum 
Grevillea 
Hakea 
Banksia 
multisecta 
ceratophyllus 
