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Sect. 1. Pericarpium deciduum, 1-loculare, 6-spermum, auiivatn. 
LXXV. 
EURYSPERMUM SALICIFOLIUM. 
Willow-leaved Euryspermum. 
ORDO NATURALIS. 
Protex. Juss. Gen! p. 78. ~ ae 
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Corolla profunde 4-fida. Nectaria ? 4, linearia. Pericarpium compressum margine alato, 
ve. Stigma obovatum, rettsum. Frutices, nune robusti. Folia integra. Flores di- 
oici, in capttulo subrotundo terminali. Bractea 1, inter singulos, preter involucrum fo- 
liorum sensim flavescentium ultimis parvis : feminearum majores et demum lignosa. 
omen ab evprs et omzgua, seminibus latis. Hue referende Protea Strobilina L, 
Protea pallens. Thunb. &c. : 
E. caule pubescente : foliis 12-2 lineas latis, lineari-spatulatis, longe mucronatis, pu- 
bescentulis ; capitulis masculis numerosis : pericarpio latissimo, emarginato. 
Sponte nascentem juxta Taffelberg, legit J. NivEN. 
Floret Julio, apud nos Martio, Aprili. 
to a very indefatigable botanist, who told me that two of my characters were ali “ 
and whose name is perpetuated by a genus in this very order, which 1s distinguished 
are produced. In habit it approaches very near to Parvy 
estes _which in our plant terminate in a long sh ares 
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cent even when old, tinged with red towards the extremities. Leaves yellowish - ace 
‘PPer surface, those near the flowers pale yellow, and graduall dilated into very ox ee 
bractes of the same colour, Flowers numerous, without smell. Bracte between each 
flower small, and only bearded towards the top. Corolla yellow, quite smooth. ‘a 
ply emarginated. Nectaries? 4, inserted in the torus between the petals, resem Dlin 
@ bristle, but more obtuse : hitherto doubting whether these bodies secreted honey, ae 
have called them Caili, but in several flowers examined fresh while the sun was suinOgy 
Saw a thick moist substance exuding plentifully. Stugma clubshaped, gia 
rently Perfect, but there is not even a pa 7A of a pericarpium, See 
