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7. D. Cneorum. A trailing much-branched shrub with 

 linear obtuse mucrona-te glabrous persistent leaves and bright 

 rose flowers. This is 'the handsomest of the hardy species, and 

 produces its exquisitely fragrant flowers in great profusion in 

 early Spring. It is a very free grower and deserves a place in 

 the smallest garden. 



ORDER XCVL PROTEACE^E. 



A large order of shrubs and trees of extremely diverse and 

 curious habit and foliage. Flowers often very brilliant, 

 axillary or racemose, or in dense terminal spikes. Perianth 

 inferior, 4-lobed or -toothed ; lobes valvate in bud. Stamens 4, 

 opposite the perianth-lobes. Fruit usually dry and woody, 

 dehiscent or indehiscent, 1 -celled, 1- or more seeded. Nearly 

 all the members of this order occur in Australia and South 

 Africa, a few only extending to South America, and northward 

 in the Old World to Abyssinia, India, and Japan. None of the 

 species are quite hardy with us, though some may withstand 

 the ordinary winters of the south-western counties of England. 

 Embothrium coccineum, a native of South America, is one of 

 the hardiest. It is a shrub with simple entire oblong leaves 

 and long pendent orange-scarlet flowers. The perianth is 

 tubular witli a sub-globose 4-cleft limb bearing the sessile 

 anthers on the concave lobes. Grevillea robusta, Stenocarpus 

 Cunninghamii, Persoonia Toru, Knightia excelsa, Hdkea spp. 

 and Rhopala spp., etc., are handsome shrubs for Summer 

 decoration 



ORDER XCVIL EL^EAGNACE-ZE. 



Trees or shrubs often clothed with a scaly indumentum. 

 Leaves alternate or opposite, entire, exstipulate. Flowers 

 usually small, regular, unisexual or bisexual, disposed in 

 axillary clusters, panicles .or catkins. Male flowers amentaceous, 

 solitary in the axil of a bract, with a 2- or 4-lobed perianth. 

 Female and hermaphrodite flowers with a free tubular perianth. 

 Stamens 3, 4 or 8, sessile. Fruit superior, 1-celled, 1 -seeded, 

 enclosed in the perianth-tube ; seed erect. A small order 

 consisting of four genera and about thirty species, for the 

 greater part natives of ,the northern hemisphere. 



