d. ).]. PROTEJE, OR PKOTEACEjfc. - 89 



deed were first defined by the writer of this, in Tr. of 

 Linn. Soc. v. 4 ; but New Holland afforded so many 

 new ones, and those of southern Africa were so ill 

 understood, that the subject required entire revision. 

 The Aestivation of the Flower in this Order is valvu- 

 lar. What Jussieu and Brown term Calyx, I rather, 

 with Dryander in Ait. Hort. Kew. and Linnaeus, take 

 for a Corolla. The Stigma is different in different 

 genera, as well as the Pericarp, and the composition 

 of the Flower, which calls up the puzzling question 

 respecting Inflorescence (48) and Aggregate Flowers 

 (69). The presence of a Common scaly or cellular 

 Receptacle (63) in some Proteacea, I think, proves 

 the latter ; while in others the Flowers are certainly 

 distinct, usually racemose. This difference is not at 

 all incompatible with the integrity of the Natural 

 Order, nor is the same terminology necessarily to be 

 applied to both. The genera, 38 in Mr. Brown's 

 essay above cited, I presume to think rather too much 

 multiplied. They are principally arranged by the 

 Fruit, which in some is closed (not bursting), the An- 

 thers being either distinct or connected ; in others 

 bursting, bivalve, of 1 or 2 cells, whose partition is 

 moveable. 



There is not the most remote affinity between this 

 Order and the preceding. The ProteacecE have scarce- 

 ly any flavour or scent in any part. Their fibres are 

 coarse and rigid. Leaves various, entire or toothed, 

 simple or repeatedly subdivided. 



