PROTEACEA. ‘415 
slender; apex obliquely dilated oval convex stigmatiferous. Fruit 
subdrupaceous. Seed 1, subglobose; cotyledons orbicular, plano- 
convex, rather thick ; radicle short inferior.—A tree ; leaves alternate 
imparipinnate ; leaflets dentate ; flowers in axillary racemes ; pedicels 
paired in axil of each bract, high-connate (Chi). 
20. Bellendena R. Br.’—Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Peri- 
anth leaves 4, equal free spreading caducous. Stamens 4, hypogynous 
free ; anthers basifixed oblong introrse 2-rimose. Germen articulated 
to a short stalk, 1-celled ; ovules 2, subsuperposed descending; style 
at apex obtuse, l-sulcate or subentire, stigmatiferous. Fruit dry 
obovate compressed, sometimes with the persistent style appressed 
and forming a hook below apex, indehiscent; one edge subulate. 
Seeds 1, 2; embryo fleshy; radicle inferior.—A shrub ; leaves alter- 
nate, incised-dentate; flowers in terminal pedunculate racemes; 
pedicels alternate, solitary or more rarely paired; bracts 0 
(Tasmania’), 
II. BANKSIEA. 
21. Banksia L. rit.—F lowers regular, hermaphrodite ; perianth 
straight or finally incurved, marcescent and long persistent; leaves 
4, free or connate at base, at antheriferous apex concave and long 
coherent. Anthers 4, subsessile linear, muticous or apiculate, in- 
trorse 2-rimose. Hypogynous squamules 4. Germen sessile; ovules 
2, collateral ascending, hemitropous, inserted laterally ; micropyle in- 
ferior extrorse ; style slender, often subulate, straight or falcate often 
more or less incurved with its convexity projecting outside through 
cleft perianth, clavate at apex, more rarely suddenly thickened like a 
node below apex, usually sulcate. Follicle woody, more or less 
deeply sunk in thickened rachis of inflorescence, compressed 2-celled, 
finally 2-valved; dissepiment free 2-fid, formed of integuments of 
connate seeds. Seeds 1 in each cell, cuneate-alate at apex; stone 
deeply immersed in cavity of dissepiment.—Trees or shrubs; leaves 
alternate or verticillate, rigid coriaceous, flat or revolute-subterete, 
entire or more frequently dentate or pinnatifid; flowers in ovate or 
1Species 1. G. Avellana Mot,, loc. cit— —Mutssn., Prodr., 347.—Bellendenia ENDL, 
C. Gay, Fl. Chil., v. 312.—Quadria hetero- Gen. u. 2141. j 
phylla R. & Pav., loc, cit. 3 Species 1. B. montana R. Br., loc. cit.— 
2In Trans. Linn. Soc., x. 48, 166; Prodr, Brntu. & F. Munn, Fl. Austral., v. 378. 
874; Suppl., 16.—Guirtiem., Icon. Lith., t. 7. 
