PBOTEAGE^E. 421 



much compressed, in female laterally 2-labiate, stigmatiferous. Nut 

 exserted, bearded, 1 -seeded. — Glabrous shrubs ; leaves alternate ; 

 male flowers in naked, slender, terminal racemes ; female capitate, 

 involucrated by subulate or leaf-like scales, and often surrounded by 

 short 1 -flowered twigs {South Africa 1 ). 



35? Dilobeia Dup.-Th. 2 — Flowers regular, dioecious. Male 

 flower : Perianth 4-leaved ; leaves acute, valvate. Stamens 4 ; 

 hypogynous filaments short, erect ; anthers oblong ; connective 

 apiculate ; cells 2, introrse rimose. Germen free barren ; style 

 linear compressed, longitudinally grooved. Female flowers and fruit 

 unknown. — A lofty tree; leaves alternate, petiolate, long-cordate, 

 narrowed at base, 3 -ribbed, veined, coriaceous-glabrous ; midrib pro- 

 longed between 2 lobes into a terminal gland ; flowers crowded on 

 branching spikes in axils of leaves of upper branches ; bracts 1- 

 flowered {Madagascaf). 



36. Leucadendron Herm. 4 — Flowers regular, dioecious ; perianth- 

 leaves 4, free or connate at very base. Anthers 4 ; in female flower 

 either linear gland-like, or with 2 sterile cells ; in male flower polleni- 

 ferous, introrse 2-rimose. Hypogynous squamules 4. Germen 

 often compressed*3-gonous ; ovule 1, hemitropous or anatropous, 

 ascending ; style slender, subclavate or obliquely capitate, stigma- 

 tiferous. Nut wingless or samaroid, 1-seeded. — Trees or shrubs ; 

 leaves sessile or petiolate, simple, entire, often heteromorphous (often 

 silky); flowers terminal capitate; involucre pluri- or 1 -seriate; 

 bracts leafy, or more rarely coloured, often finally subligneous in 

 fruit, subconnate at base {South Africa^). 



37. Nivenia R. Br. 6 — Flowers regular, hermaphrodite ; perianth - 



1 Species 2. L., Spec, ed. 1, 91 (Leucaden- dendros Hf.rm., Cat. Pluk. — Conoearpus 

 dron). — Thunb., Diss., 43, 46 ; Fl. Cap., 128 Adans., Fam. des PI., ii. 284. — Argyrodendron 

 (Prolea). — L. fil., Suppl., 118. — Burm., Afr., Comm., Hurt., ii. 51, t. 26. — Gissonia Salisb., 

 193, t. 70, fig. 3 (Protea).— Lamk., III., i. 237. Par. Lond., t. 57. — Chasme Salisb., loc. cit. — 

 — Poin., Diet., Suppl., v. G50 (Protea). — Andb., Hhvryspernmm Salisb., loc. cit., t. 75. 



Bot. Repos., t. 248 (Protea). 6 Species about 60. L.,Mantiss., 194 (Protea). 



2 Gen. Nov. Mada/j., 21. — Endl., Gen., — Thunb., Fl. Cap., 130 (Protea).— BERa., in 

 n. 6846.— H. Bn., in Adansonia, ix. 243. Act. Holm. (1766), 324 (Protea).— Lamk., III., 



3 Species 1 or 2. Rcem. & Sch., Si/st., iii. i. 234. — PoiB., Diet., Suppl., iv. 455 (Protea). 

 476, n. 580. 6 In Trans. Linn. Soc., x. IS, 133.— Enul., 



4 Ex Pluken., Phyt., t. 200, fig. 1.— R. Br., Gen., n. 2127.— Meissn., Prodr., 299, 698.— 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc, x. 48, 50. — Endl., Gen., Paranomus Salisb., Par. Lund., 67. 



n. 2120.— Meissn., Prodr., 212, 698.— Leuca- 



