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superior cotyledons. ranklandia is an Australian shrub, glabrous, 
but covered all over—branches, leaves and perianth—with glandu- 
lar warty projections. The leaves are narrow cylindrical and filiform ; 
deeply and dichotomously laciniate, the fine divisions resembling 
branches. The flowers are alternate in lax racemes, each flower on a 
short thick pedicel accompanied by one or two short bractlets. 
V. PROTEA SERIES. 
The flowers of Protea’ are regular and hermaphrodite. The perianth 
consists of four valvate leaves, one of which separates from the rest 
on anthesis so as to divide the perianth into two unequal lips. The 
four anthers, each inserted in the concavity near the dilated summit 
of a perianth-leaf, are two-celled introrse apiculate, of longitudinal 
dehiscence.” The ovary, surrounded by four hypogynous tongues or 
scales, contains within its single cell an ascending more or less com- 
pletely anatropous ovule, whose micropyle looks downwards and 
outwards; the persistent terminal style is straight or curved, with a 
cylindrical or subulate, sometimes geniculate, stigmatiferous apex, 
and is often flattened or dilated at the base. The dry indehiscent and 
hairy fruit, surmounted by the withered style, contains an ascending 
seed with a fleshy exalbuminous embryo. The genus Profea con- 
sists of small trees or shrubs, whose leaves are alternate rigid 
coriaceous, often entire. The flowers are collected at the ends 
of the branches, or rarely on the sides of the branches or trunk, 
into large capitula, with a globular hemispherical turbinate or 
oblong receptacle.. The leaves become gradually transformed into 
coriaceous imbricated bracts, usually coloured and forming an 
involucre comparable to that of Composite, and still higher up 
1 Protea L., Gen., ed. 1, n. 59.—J., Gen., 78. 
.—R. Br., in Trans, Linn. Soc., x. 48, '74.—Sm., 
Exot. Bot., i. t, 44; ii, t. 81—ENDL., Gen., n. 
Bruce, Abyss., v. 52.—Chrysodendron VAILL., 
herb. (ex MEISSN.). 
2 RosErt Brown found that the pollen of 
2123.—Mutssn., Prodr., 230, 698.—C pus 
Borra., ex ADANS., Fam. des Pl., ii. 284 (nec 
Gzetn.).—Lepidocarpodendron Borru., Lugd.- 
Bat., 35 (part.). — Scolymocephalus HRM. 
Dendr., t. 9 (part.).—Vionaa Nrcx., Elem., n. 
187.—Erodendron Sautsz., Par. Lond., 67, 70, 
108.—Plewranthe Sauiss., loc. cit.—Gagnedi 
P. lis and melliflora consisted of flattened 
triangular grains like those of Grevillea (Trans. 
Linn. Soc., x. 31). But we may note that this 
is not always the case in Dryandra, which in 
other respects comes so near Protea. The pollen 
grains of D. formosa appeared to us ellipsoidal, 
smooth and moreover alittle bowed longitudinally. 
