0 rites.] 
CXI. PROTEACErE. 
1333; 
the under surface ; texture thin coriaceous, on slender coloured petioles of about 
lin. Spikes numerous in the upper axils, about 2 to 3in. long, at an early stage 
closely covered with broadly-ovate, apieulate and prominently striated, imbricate, 
fugacious bracts of a bright crimson colour. Rhachis densely ferruginous 
pubescent. Perianth 3 to 4 lines, segments much recurved in the expanded 
flower. Filaments broad, attached to the middle of the segment. Anther about 
as long as the filament. Ovary purple and silky, but less so than the style which 
is very hairy and as long as the perianth. 
Hab.: On the highest peaks of the Bellenden Ker Range. 
9. KERMADECIA, Brongn. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, a little irregular. Perianth-tube oblique, a little 
dilated at the base ; limb oblong or sub-globose, straight or slightly incurved, 
the segments loose when in flower, limb concave. Anthers subsessile on the 
limb, oblong, connective, somewhat broad, shortly apieulate. Hypogynous disk 
unilateral, semiannular, fleshy, entire or shortly 2-lobed. Ovary oblique, sub- 
sessile on the receptacle. Style thickened or subelavate at the apex. Stigma 
oblique, terminal ; ovules 2, collateral, pendulous from the top of the cell, 
orthotropal. Fruit oblong or sub-globose, indehiscent, pericarp thick fleshy. 
Seeds unknown. — Trees. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, quite entire or undivided 
or pinnate on the same tree. Flowers small, racemose or paniculate. Bracts 
minute, very caducous or wanting. — From Benth. and Hook. Gen. FI. iii. 178. 
1. X. Bleasdalii (after Dr. J. Bleasdale), Benth. and Hook. Gen. FI. iii. 
178. A small but beautiful tree ( Dallachy ), the branches, petioles and inflore- 
scence minutely ferruginous-tomentose. Leaflets 3 to 17, petiolulate, ovate to 
oblong-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, somewhat undulate and irregularly mucro- 
nate-serrate, tapering or cuneate at the base, 2 to 5in. long, penniveined and 
reticulate, silky-villous on both sides when very young, but glabrous and green 
when full-grown, rather more shining above than below, the common rhachis 
varying from 1 or 2in. to above 1ft. in length, and often irregularly winged at 
least between the upper leaflets, the terminal leaflet always developed and 
sometimes larger than the others. Racemes 1 to 2in. long, usually several in a. 
short panicle or solitary in the upper axils. Pedicels about 1 line long, those of 
each pair completely united into a single one with the two flowers obliquely 
sessile at or near the end. Perianth about 3| lines long. Torus oblique, with 
one broad 2-lobed gland on the lower side sometimes almost divided into 2. 
Ovary glabrous, continuous with a short stipes at least as thick as the ovary. — 
Grevillea Bleasdalii or Bleasialea cupanoides, F. v. M. Fragm. v. 90; Adeno - 
stephanus Bleasdalii, Benth. FI. Austr. v. 417. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 
10. HICKSBEACHIA, F. v. M. 
(After Sir Michael Hicks-Beach.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth regular, the tube straight, the segments, 
soon loose. Stamens inserted on the lamiuc'e. Anthers longer than the filament, 
almost cordate, rather shorter than the connective. Hypogynous glands 4. 
Style straight. Stigma nearly ellipsoid. Ovary ovate-conical. Ovules 2,. 
pendulous, oblong, straight. Fruit ovate-roundish, indehiscent. Epicarp slightly 
succulent, endocarp bony. Seed solitary, ovate-globular. Testa membranous, 
veined. Embryo whitish, somewhat hard, even when fresh ; cotyledons equal 
except at the faintly flexuose summit ; radicle semi-ovate, basal, extremely short,, 
not protruding beyond the cotyledons. 
A tree endemic in Australia. 
