83 GENERAL REMARKS ON THE 



ElcEagnece, in which the tendency to cohesion of the 

 calyx and ovarium is still more obvious than in Pranklan- 

 dia, approach very near to Proteacese in most respects, and 

 the single difference in fructification between these two 

 orders, consisting in the stamina being opposite to the 

 lacinise of the calyx in the latter and alternating with them 

 in the former, is not an insuperable objection to their 

 union; for Brapetes, which evidently belongs to Thy- 

 melese, has, in opposition to the rest of that order, its 

 stamina alternating with the divisions of the perianthium. 



SYNAPHEA. 



Ord. Nat. Proteaeece. 



Sjst. Linn. Triandria Monogyuia. 



Char. Gen. Perianthium tubulosum, 4-fidum, ringens. 

 Antherce tres, inclusse : inferior didyma cum latera- 

 libus dimidiatis primo cohaerens in vaginam bilocu- 

 larem, lobis proximis vicinarum loculum unicum con- 

 stituentibus. Stigma filamento superiore sterili 

 connatum. Nux. 



Stnaphea dilatata. Tab. 7. 



Synaphea foliis apice dilatatis trilobis : lobis inciso-dentatis, petiolis spicisque 

 villosis, stigmate bioorni. Lin. soe. transact. 10, p. 166. Frodr. fl. nov. hoU. 

 370. 



Conospermum reticulatum. Smith in Bees Cyclopaed. 



In exposed barren situations, near the shores of King George's Sound; 

 gathered in flower and fruit, in December, 1801. 



DESC. ¥ncticulus procumbens teres crassitie pennae corvinse, subramosus, 

 villis patulis mollibus tomentoque appresso einereus. Folia alterna, elongato- 

 petiolata, adscendentia, cuneata, basi valde attenuata, apice dilatato trifido, lobis 

 607] incisis, segmentis brevibus aontis mucronulo sphacelato; trinervia, nervis 

 lateralibus margini approximatis simplicissimis et infra apicem folii desineu- 

 tibus, nee in lacinulas extimas prodnotis; medio trifido, ramis lateralibus sub- 

 alternis ; utrinque pulchre reticulata, areolis minutis subtus magis conspicuis ; 

 adulta glabrata, novella villosa. Petioli teretes, basi dilatata oblongo-lanceo- 

 lata seariosa. Spicai axillares solitarise simplicissiniEe erectse 3-4-unciales folia 

 vix sequantes, basiflorse, rachi tomentosa, floribus alternis sessilibus unibrac- 

 teatis ; bracteis cucuUatis ovatis acutis persistentibus. Perianthium, coloratum 

 flavum deciduum : ungues inferne connati in tubum demum 4-partibilem : 

 lamince in limbum bilabiatum dispositse, lanceolatse ; dorsali labium superius 



