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cells 2, longitudinally 2-rimose. Germen long-obconical, much 

 narrowed at base; ovule 1, hanging from nearly top of cell, ortho- 

 tropous ; style fusiform, long- tapering to apex ; extreme apex sub- 

 capitate stigmatiferous. Nucule stipitate, girded by base of perianth, 

 obconical ; apex concave, bearing a pappus outside ; embryo exalbu- 

 minous fleshy ; cotyledons very short. — A glabrous shrub, covered 

 all over with warty glands ; leaves alternate, dichotomously laciniate ; 

 lobes terete- filiform ; flowers 1-2-bracteate, few in axillary racemes ; 

 pedicels thick rigid short {Australia). See p. 3 ( J4. 



V. PBOTE.E. 



31. Protea L. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; perianth elongated val- 

 vate, 2-labiate on anthesis ; leaves 4-3, coherent into a tip ; 1 free, 

 reflexed or revolute. Stamens 4, opposite ; filaments short ; anthers 

 basifixed linear; cells linear parallel-discrete, introrsely rimose; 

 connective produced beyond cells into subulate or obtuse apiculus. 

 Hypogynous squamules 4. Germen 1-celled ; ovule 1, ascending 

 subanatropous ; micropyle interior extrorse ; style slender subulate 

 persistent, usually compressed at base, at apex subulate, cylindrical 

 or geniculate-subarticulate, stigmatiferous. Nut bearded, crowned 

 by persistent, rather hard style. — Small trees or shrubs ; leaves 

 alternate sessile or petiolate ; coriaceous rigid ; flowers rigid ; flowers 

 capitate ; capitula terminal, globular, hemispherical, or oblong, in- 

 volucrated by persistent imbricated coriaceous often coloured scales ; 

 palese below each flower persistent, free, or more or less connate into 

 sheaths {South and Tropical East Africa). See p. 395. 



32. Leucospermum E. Br. 1 — Flowers nearly of Protea ; perianth 

 regular, finally 2-labiate ; claws 3, or more rarely 4, coherent. 

 Stamens 4 ; anthers ovate or oblong, apiculate ; filaments short, 

 often broadly dilated below apex. Hypog3 r nous squamules 4. 

 Germen short ; ovule 1, descending hemitropous, attached laterally ; 

 style deciduous, at stigmatiferous apex sometimes subulate, angular, 

 or sulcate, sometimes long-conical or thickened clavate, more rarely 



'In Tra»s. Linn. Sue, x. 48, 95. — Endl., 196, 198 (purt.). — Diastella Salisb., ex. Endl., 

 Gen., n. 2124. — Meissn., Prodi-., 253, 698. foe. vit. — Scolymocephalus Wein.u., J'/ii/t., iv. 

 — Conocarpodendron Boerii., Lugd.-Bat., ii. 2'J2. 



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