420 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
obliquely turbinate and truncate. Nut sessile, ventricose, smooth, 
l-seeded.—Small trees or shrubs; leaves alternate, sessile, flat or 
involute, veined or veinless, entire or callous-dentate at apex, flowers 
in cylindrical (Rochetid), or more frequently subglobular spikes ; 
bracts imbricated around flowers, approximated into an involucre, 
rarely deciduous (Rockhetia), more frequently fastigiate above recep- 
tacle, after anthesis unchanged deciduous (Diasfella’), or indurated 
(Conocarpodendron), and persisting around fruit (South and Last 
Africa’). 
33. Mimetes Satisp.'—Flowers nearly of Protea ; perianth regu- 
lar. Anthers 4, apiculate. Hypogynous squamules 4. Germen 
sessile ; ovule 1, anatropous; style filiform. Nut ventricose, smooth. 
—Shrubs; leaves alternate, sessile, flat or cucullate, entire or 
callous-dentate ; flowers capitate; capitula axillary, or more rarely 
terminal, embraced by uppermost cucullate leaf, or more frequently 
surrounded by a coloured involucre ; palez deciduous or 0° (South 
Africa’). 
34, Aulax Bure.’— Flowers regular or subregular, dicecious. 
Perianth 4-leaved, in male flower linear-tubular, in female thicker, 
broader at base; margins introflexed. Stamens 4; anthers in female 
flower barren; in male longer, 2-celled, rimose. Germen sessile ; 
in male flower barren, in female ovate; ovule 1, hemitropous, 
attached laterally ; micropyle inferior; style tapering, in male flower 
1 Meissy., Prodr., 261 (sect. iii.). 
? Mutsswn., loc. cit., 259 (sect. ii.). 
3 Species about 24, Lamx., IUl., t. 53 (Protea). 
—L., Spee., i. 93; DMantiss., 191.—Tuuns., 
Diss., 38; Fl. Cap., 126.—AynpR., Bot. Repos., 
t. 17.—Kyie@ut, in Loud. Encyel., ed. 1, 82.— 
Bucx., in Drég. Docum., 85.—Ku., in Krauss. 
Beitr., 140.—A. Ricu., in Compt. Rend. Acad. 
Par. (1851), i. 229; in Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. 3, 
xv. 369; Fl. Abyss. Tent., ii. 232.—WaxP., 
Ann.,, iii. 327. 
4 Par. Lond., 67.—R. Br., in Trans. Linn. 
Soc., x. 48, 103.—Enpu., Gen, u. 2125.— 
Metssn., Prodr., 262. — Lepidocarpodendron 
Borru. (part.). — Hypophyllocarpodendron 
Borru. (part.).—Conophorus Prrty., Mus., 62 
(part.). — Scolymocephalus Herm., Afr. 20 
(part.).— Orothamnus Paprr, ex Bot. Magy., 
t. 4857. 
5 This genus, scarcely well distinguished from 
Leucospermum, is divided into three sections. 
These, which are sometimes not properly de- 
fined, are as follows :—1l. Ewmimetes, capitula 
axillary ovate-oblong, usually forming a hairy 
leafy spike; leaves flat, callous-dentate at apex. 
2. Orothamnus, capitula solitary, terminal; re- 
ceptacle very villous, with pale; leaves quite 
entire, flat. 3. Pseudomimetes (ENDL.), capitula 
terminal, of Orothamnus solitary, small; leaves 
small, patulous, or subulate-filiform. 
5 Species about 15. L., Mantiss., 188.— 
THuns., Diss. 55; Fl. Cap., 186 (Protea).— 
Brra., in Act. Holm. (1766), 324 (Leucaden- 
dron).—Potr., Diet., Suppl., iv. 568 (Protea).— 
Lamkx., Ill, i. 239 (Protea), 
7 Brra., Pl. Cap., 383—R. Br., in Trans. 
Tian. Soc., x. 48, 49.—Enpu., Gen., u. 2119.— 
Muissn., Prodr., 211.— Conophorus Puriv., 
Gazoph., iii, 458 (part.). — Scolymocephalus 
Heeo., loc. cit. (part.). ; 
