ANGIOSPERMiE, DICOTYLEDONES. 



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a capsule or a follicle (see figs. 426* and 426 ^ and fig. 324, p. 429). The seed 

 contains an embryo furnished with two large, thick, fleshy cotyledons, but no 

 endosperm. 



The Proteales are for the most part much-branched shrubs. The arboreal 



Fig. 426.— Proteales. 



' Banksia ericifoUa. 2 .Single flower of Banksia littoratis with the spoon-shaped perianth-segraents still closed. 3 Longitudinal 

 section through the same flower ; the style is in the form of a Ijarhed hook, and the stigma rests between the anthers ; the 

 filaments are adnate to the concave surfaces of the spoon-shaped perianth-segments. ■> Fruiting spike of Banksia erici/olia. 

 5 Fruit of Xiilomelum pyri/orme. 2 and 3 magnified; the rest nat. size. (After Baillon.) 



species Knightia excelsa, a native of New Zealand, attains a height of 30 metres. 

 The foliage-leaves are sometimes glabrous and sometimes clothed with scales, and 

 they possess peculiar stomata (see vol. i. p. 296). The genus Hakea exhibits in 



