274 Key to the System of 



Flowers mostly unprovided with ultimate stalklets. 

 Always much invested with short grey and often appressed 

 hairlets ; leaves from ovate- to narrow-lanceolar, occa- 

 sionally scattered ; cymes often only with two branchlets ; 

 petals usually five, soon disconnected ; anthers narrow ; 

 fruit rather succulent, yellowish outside, hardly contracted 

 at the summit. Ti. Quandang 1 . 



PROTEA.CEAE. 

 CON03PERMUM. 



1250. Leaves elongated. 



Much invested with greyish appressed shining hairlets ; 

 leaves broad-linear ; total inflorescence only moderately 

 long ; spikes very short, corymbously arranged ; the two 

 sets of corolla-lobes about as long as the tube. 



C. Mitchell!. 



Leaves abbreviated ... ... ... ... ... 1251 



1251. Leaves very spreading. 



Imperfectly invested with appressed short hairlets, scantily 

 branched ; leaves crowded, ascendingly curved, from 

 lanceolar- to broad-linear, always acute, considerably 

 narrowed below the middle ; spikes very short, on much 

 elongated stalks, the latter from axils of upper leaves ; 

 the two sets of corolla-lobes shorter than the tube. 

 Figure 67. C. patens. 



Leaves slightly spreading. 



Imperfectly invested with short hairlets, scantily branched ; 

 leaves crowded, from narrow-lanceolar to broad-linear, 

 always acute, placed vertically and often somewhat 

 twisted ; spikes very short, on somewhat elongated stalks, 

 the latter from axils. of upper leaves; the two sets of 

 corolla-lobes shorter than the tube. C. taxifolium. 



XSOFOGO2T. 



1252. Involucral bracts longer than the fruit-supporting 



bracts. 



Never tall ; leaves very rigid, nearly all repeatedly dissected, 

 narrowed into a long stalk, mostly glabrous, their seg- 

 ments and lobes comparatively broad, much spreading, 

 very pungent ; stalk of inflorescence quite short ; corolla 

 yellow, almost glabrous, its tube very slender ; summit 

 of style dilated and from the pointed stigma by 

 constriction somewhat separated. I. ceratophyllus. 



