420 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



obliquely turbinate and truncate. Nut sessile, ventricose, smooth, 

 1 -seeded. — Small trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate, sessile, flat or 

 involute, veined or veinless, entire or callous-dentate at apex, flowers 

 in cylindrical (Bochetia 1 ), or more frequently subglobular spikes ; 

 bracts imbricated around flowers, approximated into an involucre, 

 rarely deciduous {Rochetia), more frequently fastigiate above recep- 

 tacle, after anthesis unchanged deciduous {Dia-stella 2 ), or indurated 

 (Conocarpodendron), and persisting around fruit {South and East 

 Africa*). 



33. Mimetes Salisb. 4 — Flowers nearly of Protea ; perianth regu- 

 lar. Anthers 4, apiculate. Hypogynous squamules 4. Germen 

 sessile ; ovule 1, anatropous ; style filiform. Nut ventricose, smooth. 

 — Shrubs ; leaves alternate, sessile, flat or cucullate, entire or 

 callous-dentate ; flowers capitate ; capitula axillary, or more rarely 

 terminal, embraced by uppermost cucullate leaf, or more frequently 

 surrounded by a coloured involucre ; palese deciduous or 5 {South 

 Africa*). 



34. Aulax Berg. 7 — Flowers regular or subregular, dioecious. 

 Perianth 4-leaved, in male flower linear-tubular, in female thicker, 

 broader at base ; margins introflexed. Stamens 4 ; anthers in female 

 flower barren ; in male longer, 2-celled, rimose. Germen sessile ; 

 in male flower barren, in female ovate; ovule 1, hemitropous, 

 attached laterally ; micropyle inferior; style tapering, in male flower 



1 Meissn., Prodr., 261 (sett. iii.). Leucospermum , is divided into three sections. 



2 MEISSN., loc. cit., 259 (sect. ii.). These, which are sometimes not properly de- 



3 Species about lii. Lame, ,111., t. 53 (Protea). fined, are as follows : — 1. Uumimetes, capitula 

 — L., Spec, i. 93 ; Maniiss., 191. — Tiiu.nb., axillary ovate-oblong, usually forming a hairy 

 Diss., 38; Fl. Cap., L26. — Andk., But. Repos., leafy spike; haves Hat, odious-dentate at apex. 

 t. 17. — Ksigiit, m Loud. Encycl., ed. 1, 82. — 2. Orothamnus, capitula solitary, terminal; re- 

 BrcK., in Dreg. Docum., 85. — Ki,., in Krauss, ceptacle very villous, with pales ; leaves quite 

 Beitr., 140. — A. Rich., in Compt. /!, nd. Acad, entire, flat. 3. Pseudomimeies (Endl.), capitula 

 Par. (1851), i. 229; in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 3, terminal, of Orothamntu BOlitary, small; leaves 

 xv. 369 ; Fl. Abyss. Tent., ii. 232. — Wali\, small, patulous, or subulate-filiform. 

 Ann., iii. 327. s s pe <.j es aDO ut 15. L., Maniiss., 188.— 



4 Par. Land., 67. — R. Be., in Trans. Linn. Thxnb., Diss., 55 ; Fl. Cap., 136 (Protea). — 

 Soc, x. 48, 103.— Endl., Gen., u. 2125. — Bekg., in Art. Holm. (1766), 324 (Leucaden- 

 Meissn., Prodr., 262. — Lepidocarpodendron dron).— Pom., Diet., Suppl., iv. 5G8 (Protea). — 

 Boekh. (part,). — Hypophyllocarpodendron Lamk., Ill, i. 239 (Protea). 



Boerh. (part.).— Conophorus Petiv., Mas., B2 ' Bekg., PI. Cap., 33. — R. Br., in Trans. 



(part.). — Scolymocephalus Herm., Afr., 20 Linn. Soc, x. 48, 49.— Endl., Gen., n. 2119. — 



(part.).— Orotliamnus Pappe, ex Bot. Mag., MEISSN., Prodr., 211.— Conophorus Petiv 



1-4357. Gazoph., iii. 458 (part.). — Scolymocephalu 



8 This genus, scarcely well distinguished from Heem., loc. cit. (part.). 



