PROTEAGEJB. 409 



sepals, and exserted on their becoming revolute ; anthers linear; 

 connective very shortly produced above cells. Hypogynous glands 

 4, equal. Germen sessile ; ovules imbricated in 2 rows, 2, '6 in each, 

 ascending, anatropous ; micropyle inferior, extrorse ; style straight, 

 subclavate at apex. Follicle coriaceous fusiform ; seeds 2-4, 

 ascending, winged above. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate simple 

 petiolate, entire or toothed, penniveined ; flowers in axillary racemes 

 or capitula ; pedicels paired in axils of bracts (Oceania*). 



G. Cardwellia F. Muell. 2 — Perianth nearly of Stenocarpus ; base 

 oblique. Anthers subsessile ; cells discrete ; connective shortly 

 apiculate. Hypogynous glands 4, thick, free, unequal ; 2 posterior 

 a little longer ; two antero-lateral inserted a little higher. Germen 

 very shortly stipitate ; ovules go (up to 15), anatropous ascending, 

 inserted on a horseshoe-shaped placenta with its concavity upwards ; 

 micropyle inferior extrorse ; style straight, slender, apex stigmatife- 

 rous, obliquely dilated, ellipsoidal, with a small central prominence. 

 Follicle .... ? — A lofty tree ; leaves alternate pinnate ; flowers in 

 spike-like racemes ; pedicels cohering in pairs in axil of each bract 

 (Australia*). 



7. Darlingia F. Muell. 4 — Flowers nearly of Cardwellia, regular; 

 perianth oblique at base, dilated at stigmatiferous apex. Anthers 

 subsessile, oblong, apiculate. Glands 4, inserted obliquely ; 2 pos- 

 terior higher. Germen sessile ; ovules go, hemitropous ascending, 

 inserted on a short horseshoe-shaped placenta ; micropyle inferior, 

 extrorse ; style slender, deciduous, at apex clavate stigmatiferous. 

 " Follicle 4-seeded ; seeds erect, flat, winged all round, in two slightly 

 superposed pairs near base of anterior margin of pericarp ; embryo 

 exalbuminous ; radicle inferior." — A tree; leaves alternate simple, 

 oblong or lanceolate, entire or pinnatifid above middle ; flowers in 

 elongated spikes ; pedicels very short, undivided, 5 paired in axils of 

 bracts (East Australia?'). 



1 Species 3 — viz., 1 or 2 (doubtful) from New 24. — Bentti. & F. Muell., Fl. Austral., v. 

 Caledonia, Embothriiun strobiUnum Labill. 538. 



{Nouv.- Soil., ii. 116; — K.inlegrifoliaA.CvsN., 4 Fragm. Phyt. Austral., v. 152. 



in Ann. Nat. Hist., i. 378, not. ; — Bb. & (J it., s This genus should perhaps be reduced to a 



loc. <At., 208); and 1 from New Zealand, A". section of Cardwellia, from which it differs in 



excelsa 11. Br. (loc. cit., 194, t. 2; — Raoul, seeds and leaves. 



Ch. de PL, 42 ;— Hook. F., Fl. N. Zeal., 219). ,; Species 1. />. sp, ctatissima V. M I I I i ... toe. <•''/. 



2 Fragm. Phyt. Austral., v. 23. —Selicia Darlingiana h\ M i i i.i .. Fragm., v. 24. 



3 Species 1. C. sublimis V. Muell., loc. cit., — Bentii. & F. Muell., Fl. Austral., v. 533. 



