ANGIOSPERM^, 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 



Fig. 426.— Prote.iles. 



I Banksia cricifolia. - .Single flower of Banksia littoralis with the spoon-shaped perianth-segments still closed. " Longitudinal 

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

 filaments are adnate to the concave surfaces of the spoon-sliaped perianth-segments. * Fruiting spike of Bankata erio'foUa. 

 5 Fi'uit of Xylomelum pyrt/orme. 2 and 8 magnifled; the rest nat. size. (After Baillon.) 



species Knightia exceha, 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 Hakea exhibits in 



