PROTEACEJE 



459 



Nos. 1-4. Oblanceolate, acute or cuspidate, horizontal, tapered 

 to a narrow base, rather small. 



Nos. 5 and 6. Obovate-oblong, cuspidate, obtuse, horizontal, 

 tapered to a semiamplexicaul base, densely pubescent at the margin 

 near the base with spreading short hairs besides the adpressed 

 scattered hairs. 



No. 7. Vertical or horizontal, otherwise like No. 6. 



Nos. 8 and 9. Narrower, more acuminate, vertical. 



Stenocarpus salignus, B. Br. 



Hypocotyl erect, quadrangular, glabrous, light green, almost 

 colourless near the soil. 



Cotyledons broadly obovate-oblong, obtuse, entire, sessile, with 

 pointed auricles, rather thick, glabrous, green, trinerved, each nerve 

 with numerous veinlets. 



Stem erect, quadrangular, rather downy ; 1st internode very 

 short. 



Banksia australis, B. Br. (fig. 632). 



Hypocotyl woody, erect, terete, glabrous, green, soon becoming 

 grey, about 1'2 cm. above the soil. 



Cotyledons oblong, obtuse, obliquely emarginate, sessile, glabrous, 

 pale green, coriaceous, drawn out into a slender horizontal auricle 

 at the base, 8 mm. long, 5 

 mm. wide. 



Stem woody, erect, terete, 

 densely covered with interlac- 

 ing white hairs when young, 

 and less so or becoming 

 glabrous as it gets old, pale 

 green becoming brown ; 1st 

 and 2nd internodes unde- 

 veloped ; 3rd 4 mm. long ; 

 4th 4*75 mm. ; 5th 3'5 mm. ; 

 6th 1-5 mm. ; 7th 1 mm. ; 8th 

 5 mm. 



Leaves simple, cauline, 

 alternate or opposite or by the suppression of the internodes verti- 

 cillate or subverticillate, exstipulate, thinly felted with white hairs 

 above and a white tomentum beneath, coriaceous ; petioles short, 

 channelled above, thickened at the base. 



Nos. 1 and 2. Opposite, cuneate, serrate-dentate above the 

 middle, T7 cm. long. 



FIG. 632. Banksia australis. 

 Half nat. size. 



