424, NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
ovate, apiculate; posterior usually largest. Germen subsessile ; 
ovule 1, ascending anatropous; style slender, deciduous, obliquely 
dilated at stigmatiferous apex. Nut shortly stipitate—Heath-like 
shrubs; leaves alternate, filiform; flowers in terminal spikes or 
racemes ; pedicels 1—4-flowered, involucrate ; perianth-leaves usually 
unequal, and connate into two lips; superior lip (of | leaf), usually 
larger entire; inferior (of 3 leaves) 3-toothed or 3-fid; middle lobe 
usually narrowest (South Africa’). 
43. Adenanthos LasiLu.—Flowers regular or subregular; peri- 
anth-leaves 4, elongated, straight or curved, finally falling by cir- 
cumscission above base. Anthers 4, subsessile. Hypogynous scales 4, 
adnate to persistent base of perianth, only free at flattened acute 
apex. Germen sessile; ovule 1, descending anatropous;. style 
slender, articulated at base, longer than perianth ;* apex cylindrical 
or subclavate, vertically stigmatiferous. Nut sessile, ventricose, 
1-seeded.—Shrubs ; leaves alternate, entire or toothed, or partite at 
apex; lobes often possessing a callus or gland at apex; flowers 
pedunculate, axillary solitary, or terminal subumbellate ; involucre 
of 3-8 imbricated leaves below perianth (Australia’). 
VI. STIRLINGIE. 
44, Stirlingia Enpi.—Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or poly- 
gamous. Perianth-leaves 4, at apex spreading reflexed. Stamens 
4, inserted above middle of perianth; filaments short, geniculate 
below apex ; anthers finally exserted, 2-celled introrse rimose, at first 
coherent, later free. Germen (in male flower rudimentary or barren) 
sessile ; ovule 1, ascending anatropous ; style slender glabrous at apex 
dilated stigmatiferous. Nut obconical hairy 1-seeded.—Shrubs or 
undershrubs; leaves repeatedly dichotomous ; petioles dilated at 
base; flowers capitate; capitula pedunculate solitary or more fre- 
1 Sections 2, according to Enpu. (loc. cit.), 
viz.z — 1. Coilostigma, perianth unequal ; 
stigma concave, cochleariform; involucre 1- 
flowered. — 2. Cyrtostigma, perianth scarcely 
unequal ; stigma slightly convex; involucre 
many-flowered. 
2 Species 17. L., Spec., ed. 1, 91 (Leuca- 
dendron) ?.—Tuun., Fl. Cap., 127 (Protea).— 
Porr., Dict. Suppl., iv. 577 (Pretea).—Ram. 
& Scu., Syst., iii. 392. 
3 Nouv.-Holl., i. 28, t. 36-38.—R. Br., in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 48, 151; Prodr., 367; 
Suppl., 9.—Enpz., Gen., n. 2130.—Mztssn., 
Prodr., 310. 
4 Flower bowed or plicate. 
5 Species about 15. Lemu., Pl. Preiss., is 
512, ii. 148.— Linvu., Swan Riv. n. 182,— 
Meissn., in Pl. Preiss.,i.512; ii. 148 3 in Hook. 
Journ, (1852), 183.—F. Muri. Fragm., vi. 
204.—Bentu. & F, MUELL., Fl. Austr., v. 350. 
