PROTEACEZ. 419 
cells 2, longitudinally 2-rimose. Germen long-obconical, much 
narrowed at base; ovule 1, hanging from nearly top of cell, ortho- 
tropous ; style fusiform, long-tapering to apex; extreme apex sub- 
eapitate stigmatiferous. Nucule stipitate, girded by base of perianth, 
obconical ; apex concave, bearing a pappus outside; embryo exalbu- 
minous fleshy; cotyledons very short.—A glabrous shrub, covered 
all over with warty glands ; leaves alternate, dichotomously laciniate ; 
lobes terete- filiform ; flowers 1—2-bracteate, few in axillary racemes ; 
pedicels thick rigid short (Australia). See p. 394. 
V. PROTEX. 
31. Protea L.—Flowers hermaphrodite ; perianth elongated val- 
vate, 2-labiate on anthesis; leaves 4-3, coherent into a tip; 1 free, 
reflexed or revolute. Stamens 4, opposite; filaments short; anthers 
basifixed linear; cells linear parallel-discrete, introrsely rimose; 
connective produced beyond cells into subulate or obtuse apiculus. 
Hypogynous squamules 4. Germen 1-celled; ovule 1, ascending 
subanatropous; micropyle interior extrorse ; style slender subulate 
persistent, usually compressed at base, at apex subulate, cylindrical 
or geniculate-subarticulate, stigmatiferous. Nut bearded, crowned 
by persistent, rather hard style—Small trees or shrubs; leaves 
alternate sessile or petiolate; coriaceous rigid ; flowers rigid; flowers 
capitate ; capitula terminal, globular, hemispherical, or oblong, in- 
volucrated by persistent imbricated coriaceous often coloured scales ; 
palez below each flower persistent, free, or more or less connate into 
sheaths (South and Tropical East Africa). See p. 395. 
32. Leucospermum R. Br.'—Flowers nearly of Protea ; perianth 
regular, finally 2-labiate; claws 3, or more rarely 4, coherent. 
Stamens 4; anthers ovate or oblong, apiculate; filaments short, 
often broadly dilated below apex. Hypogynous squamules 4. 
Germen short ; ovule 1, descending hemitropous, attached laterally ; 
style deciduous, at stigmatiferous apex sometimes subulate, angular, 
or sulcate, sometimes long-conical or thickened clavate, more rarely 
1In Trans. Linn, Soc., x. 48, 95.—ENDL., 196, 198 (part.).—Diastella SaisB., ex. ENDL., 
Gen., n. 2124, —Mutssy., Prodr., 253, 698. loc. cit.—Scolymocephalus Wutnm., Phyt., iv. 
—Conocarpodendron Borru., Lugd.-Bat., ii, 292, 
