82 GENERAL REMARKS ON THE 



EJcBCignecB, in which the tendency to cohesion of the 

 calyx and ovarium is still more obvious than in Franklan- 

 dia, approach very near to Proteaceae in most respects, and 

 the single difference in fructification between these two 

 orders, consisting in the stamina being opposite to the 

 lacinise of the calyx in the latter and alternating with them 

 in the former, is not an insuperable objection to their 

 union ; for Draj^etes, which evidently belongs to Thy- 

 meleae, has, in opposition to the rest of that order, its 

 stamina alternating with the divisions of the perianthium. 



SYNAPHEA. 



Ord. Nat. Froteacea. 



Syst. Linn. Triandria Monogynia. 



Char. Gen. Perianthium tubulosum, 4-fidum, ringens. 

 Antlierce tres, inclusse : inferior didyma cum latera- 

 libus dimidiatis primo cohaerens in vaginam bilocu- 

 larem, lobis proximis vicinarum loculum unicum con- 

 stituentibus. Sticjma filamento superiore sterili 

 connatum. Nux, 



Synaphea dilatata. Tab. 7. 



Synaphea foliis apice dilatatis trilobis : lobis inciso-dentatis, petiolis spicisque 

 villosis, stigmate bicorni. Lin. soc. transact. 10, 7j. 156. Frodr. Ji. nov. holl. 

 370. 



Conospermum reticulatum. Smith in Bees Cyclopad. 



In exposed barren situations, near the shores of King George's Sound; 

 gathered in flower and fruit, in December, 1801. 



DESC. Fruticulus procumbens teres crassitie pennae corvinee, subramosus, 

 villis patulis mollibus tomeutoque appresso cinereus. Folia alterna, elongato- 

 petiolata, adscendentia, cuneata, basi valde attenuata, apice dilatato trifido, lobis 

 607] incisis, segmentis brevibus acutis mucronulo spliacelato; triuervia, nervis 

 lateralibus margiui approximatis simplicissimis et infra apicem folii desinen- 

 tibus, nee in lacinulas extimas productis; medio trifido, ramis lateralibus sub- 

 alternis ; utrinque pulchre reticulata, areolis minutis subtus magis conspicuis ; 

 adulta glabrata, novella villosa. Fetioli teretes, basi dilatata oblongo-lanceo- 

 lata scariosa. Spic(S axillares solitarias simplicissimse erectse 3-4-unciales folia 

 vix sequantes, basiflorae, rachi tomentosa, floribus alternis sessilibus unibrac- 

 teatis ; bracteis cucullatis ovatis acutis persistentibus. FeriantJiium coloratum 

 flavum deciduum : ungues inferne connati in tubum demum 4-partibilem : 

 lamina in limbuni bilabiatum dispositsc, lanceolata? ; dorsali labium superius 



