412 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



short ; leaves narrowly linear, free, recurved, deciduous. Stamens, 

 inserted above middle ; filament, thick adnate to perianth ; anthers 

 subsessile, muticous. Hypogynous glands 4, short. Germen 

 sessile ; ovules 2, anatropous ; style slender straight, at stigmatife- 

 rous apex slightly thickened, continuous vertical. Follicle coria- 

 ceous. Seeds 1, 2, winged at apex {Euorites 1 ), or at both ends 

 {Amphiderris 2 ). — Trees or shrubs; leaves alternate, flat or terete, 

 entire, or toothed ; flowers in short terminal and axillary spikes ; 

 bract 2-flowered {Australia, Tasmania*). 



13. Carnarvonia F. Muell. 4 — "Flowers subregular ; perianth 

 leaves nearly equal ; finally distantly revolute. Stamens 4 ; fila- 

 ments adnate to perianth, free at apex ; anthers oblong-linear 

 apiculate, introrsely rimose. Disk 0. Germen 2-ovulate ; style 

 short subulate deciduous ; stigma minute terminal. Fruit stipitate 

 woody-crustaceous, 2-valved. Seeds 2, long-winged above. — A tree ; 

 leaves alternate petiolate ; leaflets quinate or everywhere 3-4 some- 

 times pinnate on rachis produced upwards, entire repand- serrate or 

 partly pinnatisect ; flowers small, scattered geminate" 5 — {East 

 Australia''). 



14. Xylomerum Sm. 7 — Flowers (nearly of Manf/Iesia), polyga- 

 mous. Stamens 4, exserted when the sepals turn back ; anthers sub- 

 sessile linear ; connective shortly produced above cells. Hypogynous 

 scales 4, small. Pistil nearly of Orites (more or less abortive in 

 male flower) ; ovules 2, collateral fixed by the side, anatropous 

 ascending, micropyle inferior extrorse ; chalaza produced into a 

 narrow wing Follicle ovate-oblong tomentose ; pericarp very thick 

 woody, excentrically 1 -celled, finally dehiscent. Seeds long- winged 

 above ; embryo fleshy ; radicle inferior. — Trees ; leaves opposite 

 simple coriaceous ; spikes axillary dentifloral ; flowers paired in axil 

 of each bract, hermaphrodite below, male above {Australia*). 



1 Endl., op. cit., Snppl., iv. 2, 87. 6 Species 1. C. araVfolia F. Muell., loc. cit., 



2 R. Br., Prodi:, Suppl., 32.— Oritina R. Br., t. 55, 56. — Benth. k Muell., Fl. Austral., 

 in Trans-. Linn. Soc, x. 224. v. 409. 



3 Species 4, 5. A. Rich., Voy. Astrol., 70, ' In Trans. Linn. Soc, iv. 214.— R. Br., 

 71, t. 25.— P. Muell., Def. Ear. PL (1855), in Trans. Linn. Soc, x. 189; Prodr., 387; 

 31, n. 26. — Meissx., in Rook. Journ. (1852), Suppl. 31. — ESDI., Gen., n. 2146; Icon., 

 209. — Benth. & Muell., Fl. Austral., v. 410. t. 47, is. — Mn~s>\, Prodr., 422. 



4 Frogm., vi. 81, 248, 250, 254. « Species 4. G.krtn., Fruct., i. 220, t. 47, 

 4 A genus at once related to Ee/icia, Gre- fig. 1 (Banksia).— Lamk., Diet., viii. 810 ; ///., 



villea, Ttlopea, and Fmbothrium, according to t. 54, fig. 4. — Cay., Icon., iv. 25, t. 536 (Hakea). 



P. Mueller. — W., Enum., i. 141 (Conchium).— Hook., Icon., 



