438 CHARACTER AND DESCRIPTION 



tiusculo leevi aperturam membranse internae attingente. 

 Stylus trigonus strictus, infra villosus, diiiiidio superioie 

 glabro, altitudine staminum, iisdem paulo prsecocior, exser- 

 tus nerape dum ilia adhuc inclusa. Stigmata tria brevis- 

 637] sima acuta denticuliformia. Pericarpium exsuccum, inde- 

 hiscens, villosum, basi styli aristatum, perianthio scarioso et 

 filamentis eraarcidis cinctum, abortione monospermum. 

 Semen turgidum obovatum retusum, integumento (testa) 

 simplici membrauaceo aqueo-pallido, hinc (intus) fere a 

 basi acutiuscula, raphe fusca verticem retusum attingente 

 ibique in chalazam parvani concolorem ampliata. Albumen 

 semini conforme dense carnosum album. Mnbryonvonoco- 

 tyledoneus, aqueo-pallidus subglobosus, extremitate infe- 

 riore (radicular!) acuta, in ipsa basi seminis situs, semi- 

 immersus, nee albumine omnino inclusus. 



Tab. C. fig. 1. KiNGi^ AusTRALis pedunculus capitulo 

 florido terminatus ; fig. 2, capitulum fructiferum ; 8, sectio 

 transversalis pedunculi ; 4, folium : hse magnitudine natu- 

 rali, sequentes oranes plus minus auctse sunt ; 5, flos ; 6, 

 stamen: 7, anthera anticeet; 8, eadem postice visa; 9, 

 pistillum ; lOj ovarii sectio transversalis; 11, ejusdem 

 portio longitudinaliter secta exhibens ovulum adscendens 

 cavitatem loculi replens ; 12, ovulum ita longitudinaliter 

 sectum ut membrana interna solumraodo ejusque insertio 

 in apice cavitatis testae visa sit; 13, ovuli sectio longitudi- 

 nalis profundius ducta exhibens membranam internam et 

 nucleum ex ejusdem basi ortum ; 14, bractese capituli fruc- 

 tiferi; 15, pericarpium perianthio filamentisque persisten- 

 tibus cinctum ; 1 6, pericarpium perianthio avulso filamen- 

 torum basibus relictis; 17, semen. 



Obs. I. — It remains to be ascertained, whether in this 

 genus a resin is secreted by the bases of the lower leaves, 

 as in Xanthorrhoea ; and whether, which is probable, it 

 agrees also, in the internal structure of its stem with 

 that genus. In Xanthorrhoea the direction of fibres or 

 vessels of the caudex seems at first sight to resemble in 

 some degree the dicotyledonous arrangement, but in 



