68 Mr. Brown, on the Proteacece of Jussieit. 



dividendum, phalangibus infra propositis genera futura in- 

 dicantibus. 



Etym. Tler^og et (fiiXii). Hi frutices enim semper in saxosis 

 apricis proveniunt. 



Obs. Mr. Salisbury has united such of the New Holland Pro- 

 tefe as he had seen, into one genus, which he calls Atylus ; 

 a name meant to express the want of those bodies that usu- 

 ally surround the ovarium, in this order, and which he chooses 

 to term calli : but as I conceive they are certainly secreting 

 organs, the name on this ground would be exceptionable: my 

 chief reason however for not adopting it, either for the pre- 

 sent or the following genus, is, that the whole of his essential 

 character does not apply to either of them. In his secon- 

 dary character, he has also considered them as monoicous, a 

 mistake into which he has probably been led, not only from 

 the striking similarity between the strobili of Petrophila and 

 Lemadendron, but also from the style of the former remain- 

 ing for some time unwithered after the calyx has fallen off. 

 In one species he has even described the relative situation of 

 the sexes ; regarding the terminating amentum of F.pukhella 

 as female, and. the lesser ones, which frequently though not 

 always surround it, as male ; but that this is not the case is 

 proved by Cavanilles' figure of the species, in which all the 

 amenta are in fruit, and a specimen in the same state may 

 be seen in Sir Joseph Banks's Herbarium. 



t Stigma artkiilalum, ariiailo inferlore anguluto, glalro, s7iperiore tomentoso. Nux 

 lentkulari-compressa, intils marginilusque comosa. FoWdiJlliformia indivisa, 



*1. P. teretifotia, foliis teretibus exsulcis, squamis strobili ener- 

 yibus, stigmatis articulo superiore stuposo triplo longiore. 



Had. 



