PROTEACEJE. 415 



slender; apex obliquely dilated oval convex stigmatiferous. Fruit 

 subdrupaceous. Seed 1, subglobose ; cotyledons orbicular, plano- 

 convex, rather thick • radicle short inferior.— A tree ; leaves alternate 

 imparipinnate ; leaflets dentate ; flowers in axillary racemes ; pedicels 

 paired in axil of each bract, high-connate {Chili'). 



20. Bellendena R. Br. 2 — Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Peri- 

 anth leaves 4, equal free spreading caducous. Stamens 4, hypogynous 

 free ; anthers basifixed oblong introrse 2-rimose. Germen articulated 

 to a short stalk, 1 -celled; ovules 2, subsuperposed descending; style 

 at apex obtuse, 1-sulcate or subentire, stigmatiferous. Fruit dry 

 obovate compressed, sometimes with the persistent style appressed 

 and forming a hook below apex, indehiscent ; one edge subulate. 

 Seeds 1,2; embryo fleshy ; radicle inferior.— A shrub ; leaves alter- 

 nate, incised-dentate ; flowers in terminal pedunculate racemes ; 

 pedicels alternate, solitary or more rarely paired ; bracts 

 {Tasmania 3 ). 



II. BANKSIEJE. 



21. Banksia L. fil. — Flowers regular, hermaphrodite; perianth 

 straight or finally incurved, marcescent and long persistent ; leaves 

 4, free or connate at base, at antheriferous apex concave and long 

 coherent. Anthers 4, subsessile linear, muticous or apiculate, in- 

 trorse 2-rimose. Hypogynous squamules 4. Germen sessile ; ovules 

 2, collateral ascending, hemitropous, inserted laterally ; niicropyle in- 

 ferior extrorse ; style slender, often subulate, straight or falcate often 

 more or less incurved with its convexity projecting outside through 

 cleft perianth, clavate at apex, more rarely suddenly thickened like a 

 node below apex, usually sulcate. Follicle woody, more or less 

 deeply sunk in thickened rachis of inflorescence, compressed 2-celled, 

 finally 2-valved ; dissepiment free 2-fid, formed of integuments of 

 connate seeds. Seeds 1 in each cell, cuneate-alate at apex ; stone 

 deeply immersed in cavity of dissepiment. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves 

 alternate or verticillate, rigid coriaceous, flat or revolute-subterete, 

 entire or more frequently dentate or pinnatifid ; flowers in ovate or 



1 Species 1. G. Avellana Mol., loc. cit. — — Meissn., Prodr., 347. — Bellendenia EnBL., 



C. Gat, Fl. Chil., v. 312. — Quadria hetero- Gen., n. 2141. 

 ■phylla R. & Pav., loc. cit. 3 Species 1. B. monlana R. Br., loc. cit. — 



'-' In Trans. Linn. Soc, x. 48, 166; Prodr., Benth. & F. Muell., Fl. Austin/., v. 878. 

 374; Suppl., 16. — (iuiLLEir., Icon. Lith., t. 7. 



