Victorian Plants. 59 



PROTEACEAE. 



289. One of the anthers perfect, two imperfect, the fourth 



sterile, all at first united. 



Shrubs or half-shrubs ; leaves constantly entire ; flowers 

 usually in short spikes, each supported by a bract ; stalk 

 of the inflorescence generally much elongated ; corolla 

 mostly bluish, its lobes often unequal ; fruit indehiscent, 

 dry, broadly obverse-conical, the terminal hairlets forming 

 a ciliolar tuft. Figure 67. Conospernrum. 1250 



All four anthers alike and quite disunited ... ... 290 



290. Fruit indehiscent 291 



Fruit dehiscent 293 



291. Fruit beset with soft hairlets, the uppermost of them 



forming a terminal ciliolar tuft. 



Shrubs from dwarf to tall ; leaves entire or lobed ; flowers 

 crowded head-like or cylindrically ; lobes of the corolla 

 alike and equally spreading ; stigma always terminal ; 

 bracts somewhat indurating, finally deciduous ; fruit dry, 

 broadly obverse -conical. Isopogoii. 1252 



Fruit without any ciliolar tuft ... ... ... 292 



292. Fruit dry. 



Shrubs from dwarf to tall ; leaves entire or lobed ; flowers 

 solitary or two or few together, each within a small 

 involucre of few or several bracts ; lobes of the corolla 

 almost alike and equally spreading ; stigma always ter- 

 minal ; fruit ellipsoid. Adeiiaiithos. 1253 



Fruit outside succulent. 



Shrubs or half-shrubs, rarely trees ; leaves always entire ; 

 corolla constantly yellow, its lobes alike and equally 

 spreading ; flowers solitary and axillary or forming short 

 racemes, unprovided with involucral bracts ; stamens in- 

 serted near the middle of the petals. Figure 68. 



Persoonia. 1254 



293. Fruit-valves almost crustaceous ... ... ... 294 



Fruit-valves almost ligneous ... ... ... ... 297 



