PROTEACEA. 417 
ovules 2, more frequently 1, descending orthotropous ; style slender 
exserted, straight or curved; apex obtuse or capitate, stigmatiferous. 
Fruit drupaceous ; endocarp 1, 2-celled; seeds 1, 2; embryo fleshy ; 
radicle inferior.—Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate (more rarely all 
opposite), entire flat, or maple-like; flowers either solitary or few 
axillary, or rarely (the leaves being reduced to bracts) in terminal 
racemes (Australia, New Zealand). See p. 398. 
25. Symphyonema R. Br.'—Flowers nearly of Persoonia; pe- 
rianth 4-partite deciduous ; leaves equal valvate. Stamens adnate 
up to middle of perianth ; filaments finally coherent below free 
anthers. Germen shortly stipitate; ovules 1, 2, orthotropous de- 
scending ; style stigmatiferous at apex. Fruit a l-seeded nut— 
Undershrubs or herbs; leaves alternate (or lower opposite), 3-fid- 
laciniate ; flowers in axillary and terminal spikes; bracts cuculate 
persistent, 1-flowered (Australia’). 
26. Faurea Harv.*—Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Perianth- 
leaves equal, 1 finally separating from the rest, making perianth 
2-labiate; style protruding between lips. Stamens 4; filaments 
short, concave within; anthers oblong muticous; cells 2, discrete 
parallel 2-rimose. Hypogynous scales 4, triangular-subulate, equal. 
Germen sessile; ovule 1, suborthotropous obliquely descending ; 
style straight, subclavate at apex. Nut ovate bearded, long sur- 
mounted by persistent style, longitudinally 4-ribbed.—A. shrub ; 
leaves alternate simple; flowers 1-bracteate in terminal spikes* 
(South Africa’). 
27. Brabejum L.‘— Flowers regular, polygamous. Perianth- 
leaves 4, linear free deciduous. Stamens 4. Disk hypogynous 
continuous. Germen sessile; ovule ], descending suborthotropous ; 
1%In Trans. Linn. Soc., ». 48, 157; Prodr., 
370; Suppl. 11.—Enp.., Gen. n. 2137.— 
Muissy., Prodr., 327. 
? Species 2. Ra. & Scu., Syst., Mant., iii. 
273.—Reicus., Hort. Bot., ii. 3, t. 107.— 
Env1., Iconog., t.12.—F. Muzur., Fragm., vi. 
223.— Breyta. & F. Muew., Fl. Austral., 
v. 377. 
3 In Hook. Journ. vi. 373, t. 15.—ENDL., 
Gen., u. 21391 (Suppl., iv. p. ii. 82).—Mutssn., 
Prodr., 344, 
VOL. II. 
4A genus recalling Andripetalum in some 
respects, and the Abyssinian species of Leuco- 
spermum in others, but differing from the former 
chiefly by its ovule being solitary, from the 
latter by its being descending and orthotropous. 
5 Species 1. F. saligna Harv., loc. cit. 
6 Gen., n. 85.—J., Gen., 79.—Lamx., Dict., 
459; Suppl., i. 694; IU, t. 847 B—R. Bx. 
in rans. Linn. Soc., x. 48, 164.—ENDL., Gen., 
n. 2139.—Mutssn., Prodr., 344.—Brabyla L., 
Mantiss., 137. 
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