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a capsule or a follicle (see figs. 426 * and 426 ^ and fig. 324, p. 429). The seed 

 contains an embryo furnished with two large, thick, fleshy cotyledons, but no 

 endosperm. 



The Proteales are for the most part much-branched shrubs. The arboreal 



Kg. 426.— Proteales. 



■ BarMa ericifolia. 2 Single flower of Banksia littoralii with the spoon-shaped perianth-segments still closed, s Longitudinal 

 section through the same flower ; the style is in the form of a baxbed hook, and the stigma rests between the anthers ; the 

 fliaments are adnate to the concaTe surfaces of the spoon-shaped perianth-segments. * Fruiting spike of Baiilcsia erici/olia. 

 ' Fruit of Xylomelum pyri/orme. 2 and » magnified ; the rest nat. size. (Aft«r Baillon.) 



species Knightia excelm, a native of Xew Zealand, attains a height of 30 metres. 

 The foliage-leaves are sometimes glabrous and sometimes clothed with scales, and 

 they possess peculiar stomata (see vol. i. p. 296). The genus Hakea exhibits in 



