CLASSIFICATION 165 
147. N, 0. Proteaceae. General Characters.—Trees 
or shrubs with very diverse foliage. Leaves adapted 
to resist drought. Natives of Australia and South 
Africa. Flowers mostly capitate: no corolla, four 
stamens inserted on sepals, ovary free, fruit an achene, 
or nut. 
Type.—Leucospermum (Kreupelhout) (fig. 80). 
Plant, tree or shrub. Stem, woody. Leaves, simple, 
exstipulate, entire, net-veined, and hairy. Inflorescence, 
capitulum. Flower, irregular, incomplete. Calyz, elon- 
gate, three of the sepals cohering, the fourth free when 
flower opens, coloured. Corolla, absent. Androecium, 
four sessile anthers adhering to apices of sepals. Gyn- 
oecium, ovary free, one-celled, superior, style deciduous, 
stigma thickened. 
Fruit, a nut. 
Pollination—By insects. 
Other Genera.—Protea, similar to Leucospermum but 
an involucre present formed of persistent coriaceous im- 
bricate bracts, often coloured or bearded. Fruit, a tailed 
achene (tail formed by the persistent style) covered with 
stiff hairs. Leucadendron, flowers dioecious, involucre 
formed by the upper leaves, mostly yellow. Female 
flowers form a cone. Fruit, a flat, or winged, nut. 
LL. argentum (the Silver Tree), a striking member found 
in the Cape Peninsula. Brabejum (Wild Almond), 
found by the side of streams. JMuimetes, shrubs simi- 
lar in habit to Leucospermum. Flowers reddish or 
purple in small heads. Calyx regular. Segments dis- 
tinct. 
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