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sidering the latter as barren filaments ; we may therefore expect to find 
octandrous genera belonging to this family. While the persistence and 
induration of the lower half of the perianthium in this genus, and the peri- 
gynous origin of the squama, which in other genera of the order are hypo- 
gynous, render it not improbable that plants may hereafter be discovered 
having a calyx absolutely cohering with the ovarium, which nevertheless it 
may be necessary to refer to Proteacea. 
Elceagnece , in which the tendency to cohesion of the calyx and ova- 
rium is still more obvious than in Franklandia, approach very near to 
Proteacea in most respects, and the single difference in fructification 
between these two orders, consisting in the stamina being opposite to the 
lacinia of the calyx in the latter and alternating with them in the former, 
is not an insuperable objection to their union ; for Drapetes, which evi- 
dently belongs to Thymelea, has, in opposition to the rest of that order, 
its stamina alternating with the divisions of the perianthium. 
SYNAPHEA. 
Ord. Nat. Proteacea. 
Syst. Linn. Triandria Monogynia. 
Char. Gen. Perianthium tubulosum, 4-fidum, ringens. Anther a Ires, 
inclusa : inferior didyma cum lateralibus dimidialis primo coharens 
in vaginam bilocularem, lobis proximis vicinarum loculum unicum 
constituentibus. Stigma filamento superiore sterili connatum. Nux. 
Synaphea dilatata. Tab . 7. 
Synaphea foliis apice dilntatis trilobis: lobis inciso-dentatis, petiolis spicisque villosis, 
stigmate bicorni. Linn. soc. transact. 10 , p. 156. Prodr. jt. nov. holt. 370. 
Conospermum recticulatum. Smith in Rees Cycloped. 
In exposed barren situations, near the shores of King George’s Sound ; gathered in 
flower and fruit, in December, IsOl. 
DESC. Fruticulus procumbens teres crassitie pennse corvinae, subramosus, villis 
patulis mollibus tomentoque appresso cinereus. Folia alterna, elongato-petiolata, a !seen- 
dentia, cuneata, basi valde attenuata, apice dilatato trilido, lobis ineisis, segment!* 
