424 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



ovate, apiculate ; posterior usually largest. Germen subsessile ; 

 ovule 1, ascending anatropous ; style slender, deciduous, obliquely 

 dilated at stigmatiferous apex. Nut shortly stipitate. — Heath-like 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate, filiform ; flowers in terminal spikes or 

 racemes ; pedicels 1-4-flowered, involucrate ; perianth-leaves usually 

 unequal, and connate into two lips ; superior lip (of 1 leaf), usually 

 larger entire ; inferior (of 3 leaves) 3-toothed or 3-fid • middle lobe 

 usually narrowest 1 {South Africa 2 ). 



43. Adenanthos Labill. 3 — Flowers regular or subregular; peri- 

 anth-leaves 4, elongated, straight or curved, finally falling by cir- 

 cumscission above base. Anthers 4, subsessile. Hypogynous scales 4, 

 adnate to persistent base of perianth, only free at flattened acute 

 apex. Germen sessile ; ovule 1, descending anatropous ; style 

 slender, articulated at base, longer than perianth ; 4 apex cylindrical 

 or subclavate, vertically stigmatiferous. Nut sessile, ventricose, 

 1 -seeded. — Shrubs ; leaves alternate, entire or toothed, or partite at 

 apex ; lobes often possessing a callus or gland at apex ; flowers 

 pedunculate, axillary solitary, or terminal subumbellate ; involucre 

 of 3-8 imbricated leaves below perianth {AmtraUcC). 



VI. STIKLINGIE.E. 



44. Stirlingia Endl. — Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or poly- 

 gamous. Perianth-leaves 4, at apex spreading reflexed. Stamens 

 4, inserted above middle of perianth ; filaments short, geniculate 

 below apex ; anthers finally exserted, 2-celled introrse rimose, at first 

 coherent, later free. Germen (in male flower rudimentary or barren) 

 sessile ; ovule 1, ascending anatropous ; style slender glabrous at apex 

 dilated stigmatiferous. Nut obconical hairy 1 -seeded. — Shrubs or 

 undershrubs ; leaves repeatedly dichotomous ; petioles dilated at 

 base; flowers capitate; capitula pedunculate solitary or more fre- 



1 Sections 2, according to Endl. (loc. cit.), 3 Nouv.-Koll., i. 28, t. 36-38.— R. Br., in 

 viz.: — 1. Coilostigma, perianth unequal; Trans. Linn. Soe., x. 48, 151; Prodr., 367; 

 stigma concave, cochleariform ; involucre 1- Snppl., 9. — Endl., Gen., n. 2130. — Meissn., 

 flowered. — 2. Cyrtostigma, perianth scarcely Prodr., 310. 



unequal ; stigma slightly convex ; involucre 4 Flower bowed or plicate. 



many-flowered. s g pec i eg aDO ut 15. Lemh., PI. Preiss., i. 



2 Species 17. L., Spec, ed. 1, 91 {Leuca- 512, ii. 148.— Lindl., Swan Mic, n. 182.— 

 dfndron) ?.— Thttnb., Fl. Cap., 127 (Proiea).— Meissn., in PI. Preiss., i. 512 ; ii. 148 ; in Hook. 

 Poik., Diet., Suppl., iv. 577 (Protea).— R<em. Journ. (1852), 183.— F. Mueix., Fragm., vl. 

 & Sch., Syst., iii. 392. 204.— Benth. & V. .Mif i.i.., Fl. Austr., v. 350. 



