330 CVII. PROTEACEJE. 



Glabrous, low shrubs, the flowering brandies umbellate. Leaves narrow, 

 sessile, quite entire. — 2 species, Western. 



2. LEUCADENDRON, Hcrm. 



Flowers dicBcious, both sexes in involucred heads, tlie female 

 involucre coue-like. Calyx regular ; segments bearing anthers 

 in the concave apex. 8tigma oblique, clavate, hispidulous, 

 emarginate. Nut sometimes winged, enclosed within the 

 scales of the cone-like involucre. — DC. Frod. xiv. ^. 212. 



Trees or shrubs, silky, silvery, pubescent or glabrous. Leaves quite 

 entire, mostly sessile. Heads terminal, solitary. — 49 species, dispersed. 



3. PROTEA, Linn. 



Flowers bisexual, capitate, the head many-flowered, invo- 

 lucred mth persistent, coriaceous, imbricate often-coloured 

 bracts ; receptacle flat or convex, mostly glabrous. Calyx 

 elongate, slender, 2-labiate, 3 of its lobes cohering in one lip 

 and mostly aristate, the fourth free ; anthers sessile in the 

 spoon- like apices of the perianth -lobes, linear, the connective 

 mostly crested. Style subulate, persistent ; stigma cylin- 

 drical or subulate. Nut tailed by the style, rigidly hairy all 

 over.— Z>C. Frod. xiv. p. 230. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves quite entire, flat or channelled, often mar- 

 gined. Heads large, mostly terminal. — 60 species, dispersed. 



4. LEUCOSPERMUM, R. Br. 



Flowers bisexual, capitate, the head terminal, many-flow- 

 ered, globose or oblong: receptacle flattish, paleaceous; invo- 

 lucre multiseriate, the bracteoles imbricated, appressed. Calyx 

 1-labiate, (3 or rarely all) of the claws of the ^segments coher- 

 ing, their spoon-shaped apices separate, antheriferous. Style 

 filiform, deciduous ; stigma glabrous, mostly much thickened, 

 sometimes obliquely truncate, very generally angular or fur- 

 rowed. Nut crustaceous, sessile, subglobose, smooth. — DC. 

 Frod. xiv. p. 253. 



Small trees or generally low shrubs, erect or trailing, with sessile, flat or 

 concave, entire or callous-denticulate leaves and mostly terminal heads of 

 yellow flowers. — 23 Cape species, dispersed. 



5. MIMETES, Salisb. 



Flowers bisexual, capitate, the head axillary, rarely terminal, 

 few- or many-flowered, sometimes wrapped in a concave leaf; 

 receptacle flat, with narrow, deciduous paleae or ; involucre 

 many-leaved, membranous, rarely coriaceous, often coloured, 

 multiseriate, imbricate or 1-sided. Calyx regular, 4-parted, 

 the segments distinct, antheriferous in the apices. 4 hypo- 



