ANGIOSPERMiE, DICOTYLEDONES. 



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a capsule or a follicle (see figs. 426 * and 426 «, and fig. 324, p. 429). The seed 

 contains an embryo furnished with two large, thick, fleshy cotyledons, but no 

 endosperm. 



The Proteales are for the most part much-branched shrubs. The arboreal 



Kg. 426.— Proteales. 



I Banksia ericifolia. 2 Single flower otBanksia littoralis with the spoon-shaped perianth-segments still closed. 3 Longitudinal 

 section through the same flower ; the style is in the form of a barbed hook, and the stigma rests between the anthers ; the 

 filaments are adnate to the concave surfaces of the spoon-shaped pSrianth-segments. * Fruiting spike of Banksia erici/oHa. 

 5 Fruit of Xylomelum pyri/orme. 2 and ' magnified; the rest nat. size. (After Baillon.) 



species Knightia excelsa, a native of New Zealand, attains a height of 30 metres. 

 The foliage-leaves are sometimes glabrous and sometimes clothed with scales, and 

 they possess peculiar stomata (see vol. i. p. 296). The genus Rakea exhibits in 



