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superior cotyledons. FranHandia is an Australian shrub, glabrous, 

 but covered all over — branches, leaves and perianth — with glandu- 

 lar warty projections. The leaves are narrow cylindrical and filiform ; 

 deeply and dichotomously laciniate, the fine divisions resembling 

 branches. The flowers are alternate in lax racemes, each flower on a 

 short thick pedicel accompanied by one or two short bractlets. 



V. PEOTEA SEEIES. 



The flowers o£ Protect} are regular and hermaphrodite. The perianth 

 consists of four valvate leaves, one of which separates from the rest 

 on anthesis so as to divide the perianth into two unequal lips. The 

 four anthers, each inserted in the concavity near the dilated summit 

 of a perianth-leaf, are two-celled introrse apiculate, of longitudinal 

 dehiscence. 2 The ovary, surrounded by four hypogynous tongues or 

 scales, contains within its single cell an ascending more or less com- 

 pletely anatropous ovule, whose micropyle looks downwards and 

 outwards ; the persistent terminal style is straight or curved, with a 

 cylindrical or subulate, sometimes geniculate, stigmatiferous apex, 

 and is often flattened or dilated at the base. The dry indehiscent and 

 hairy fruit, surmounted by the withered style, contains an ascending 

 seed with a fleshy exalbuminous embryo. The genus Protect con- 

 sists of small trees or shrubs, whose leaves are alternate rigid 

 coriaceous, often entire. The flowers are collected at the ends 

 of the branches, or rarely on the sides of the branches or trunk, 

 into large capitula, with a globular hemispherical turbinate or 

 oblong receptacle. The leaves become gradually transformed into 

 coriaceous imbricated bracts, usually coloured and forming an 

 involucre comparable to that of Contpositce, and still higher up 



1 Protea L., Gen., ed. 1, n. 59. — J., Gen., 78. Bruce, Abyss., v. 52. — Chrysodendron Vaill., 



— R. Br., in Trans. Linn. Soc, x. 48, 74. — Sm., herb, (ex Meissn.). 



Exot. Sot., i. t. 44; ii. t. 81. — Endl., Gen., n. 2 Robeet Brown found that the pollen of 



2123. — Meissn., Prodr., 230, 098. — Conocarpus P. acaulis and melliflora consisted of flattened 



BoERn., ex Adans., Earn, des PL, ii. 284 (nee triangular grains like those of G-revillea (Trans. 



G.ertn.). — Lepidocarpodendron Boerh., Luyd.- Linn. Soc, x. 31). But we may note that this 



Bat., 35 (part.). — Scolymocephalus Herm. is not always the case in Dryandra, which in 



Dendr., t. 9 (part.). — Vioncea Neck., Lion., n. other respects comes so near Prott a. The pollen 



187. — Erodendron Salisb., Par. Lond., 67, 70, grains of D.formosa appeared to us ellipsoidal, 



108. — Pleuranthe Salisb., loc. cit. — Guynedi smooth and moreover alittle bowed longitudinally. 



