evil. PROTEACE^. 329 



2 rows) ; style simple, terminal ; stigma terminal or lateral. 

 Fruit (in the African genera) a 1- seeded nut or drupe. Albu- 

 men 0. — Trees, shrubs or undershrubs, very varied in aspect, 

 with rigid, exstipulate, entire or multifid, alternate, rarely 

 opposite or whorled leaves. Flowers either capitate, spiked 

 or axillary, rarely umbelled. The species are chiefly natives 

 of the AVestern districts. 

 Flowers dioecious (male and female on different plants). 



Male flov\-ers racemose ; nuts exserted, bearded . 1. AULAX. 

 Male flowers ca]iitate ; nuts glabrous, hidden under 



the broad scales of a cone-like involucre ... 2. Leucadendeon. 

 Flowers bisexual and fertile or rarely polygamous in 

 the same inflorescence. 

 Flowers in many-flowered or indefinitely few- 

 flowered, terminal or axillary heads. 

 Calyx irregular, 2-labiate, 3 laciniae (or all) co- 

 hering. 

 Antheriferous apices of calyx cohering ; nuts 



bearded, tailed by the persistent style . . 3. Peotea. 

 Antheriferous apices separate ; nuts smooth, 



not tailed 4. Letjcospeemum. 



Calyx distinctly 4-cleft, regular. 



Nut sessile, smooth ; leaves flat, expanded, 



entire or toothed 5. Mimetes. 



Nut pedicellate, hairy or glabrescent ; leaves 



filiform, 3-pinnatiparted or rarely entire . 6. Seeeueia. 

 Flowers in 1-flowered or definitely 2-6-flowered 

 involucred heads, which are congested in ter- 

 minal spikes or head-like glomerules. 

 Calyx regular ; stigma vertical, clavate. 



Nut sessile, entire at base; leaves flat, the 



upper entire or cut, lower pinnatipai'ted . 7. NiVENiA. 

 Nut pedicellate or emargiuate at base ; leaves 

 linear, entire or some of the lower decom- 

 pound 8. SOEOCEPHALUS. 



Calyx irregular, 1 segment larger ; stigma ob- 

 lique, ddated 9. Spatalla. 



Flowers in spikes or racemes (not capitate). 



Anthers sessile in the apices of the calyx-lobes ; 

 nut bearded ; spikes terminal ; leaves alter- 

 nate, quite entire 10. FatJEEA. 



Anthers on short filaments at the base of the 4- 

 parted calyx ; drupe velvety ; racemes axil- 

 lary ; leaves whorled, serrated 11. Beabeium. 



1. AULAX, Berg. 



Flowers dioecious, the male in racemes, nude ; female capi- 

 tate, bracteate. Calyx regular, 4-parted ; segments, in the 

 males, bearing anthers in the middle. Hypogynous scales in 

 male 0, in female 4. Ovary 1-ovuled ; stigma oblique, clavate, 

 hispidulous, emarginate. Nut exserted, ventricose, bearded. 

 —DC. Frod. xiv. p. 211. 



