PROTEACE^E 



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the base, petioled and not auricled ; both the last characters 

 are unusual as well as the acute apex. 



The cotyledons of Banksia speciosa (fig. 633) are obovate- 

 oblong, ascending, obliquely truncate and crenate at the apex, 

 trinerved and auricled at the base with subulate auricles 

 cohering with one another and causing the cotyledons to 

 assume their ascending direction. 



Protea mellifera, Thbg. 



Hypocotyl stout, erect, 

 terete, 3'5-4 cm. long, light 

 green with a very slight red- 

 dish tinge. 



Cotyledons thick, fleshy, 

 obovate-spathulate, obtuse, en- 

 tire, tapering to the base, but 

 scarcely petiolate, glabrous, 

 green, indistinctly one-nerved. 



Stem erect, square, glabrous, 

 herbaceous, ultimately woody ; 

 1st internode 3-4 mm. long ; 

 2nd 1-2 mm. ; 3rd and 4th 

 8-4 mm. 



First leaves simple, entire, 

 cauline, alternate, spathulate 

 or almost lanceolate, acute, 

 glabrous, petiolate with the 

 petiole somewhat decurrent on 

 the stem, or subsessile, exsti- 

 pu-late, subglaucous, pinnati- 

 nerved. 



Leucospermum conocarpum, 



E. Br. (fig. 626). 



Hypocotyl firm, nearly te- 

 rete, 2-4 cm. long, 4 mm. thick, 

 glabrous, brownish-green. 



Cotyledons sessile, 1-5-2 cm. long, 1-1-25 cm. wide, 2-3 mm. 

 thick, unequal, obliquely oblong, obtuse, emarginate, otherwise 

 entire, uneven with a broadly raised obscure midrib, and a thick 

 ligule-like collar near the base clasping the young stem before 



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PIG. 626. Leucospermum conocarpum. 

 Nat. size. 



