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CXI. PROTEA CE /EL 
[ Bucldn/jhamia. 
united in a single semiannular truncate and crenulate gland. Ovary shortly 
stipitate, with 4 collateral amphitropous ovules attached about the middle; style 
filiform, with an oblique almost lateral disk at the end, with the small stigma in 
its centre. Fruit a compressed follicle, opening along the upper suture. Seeds 
4, sometimes 1 or 2, abortive, very Hat and thin, surrounded by a narrow wing- 
like margin. — Tree. Leaves on the old trees undivided, deeply 3 or more lobed 
on young plants, penniveined. Flowers small, pedicellate in pairs in terminal 
racemes. Bracts none or very deciduous. 
Tlie perms is limited to a single species endemic in tropical Australia and closely allied to the 
Grevilletc of the section Cycloytera, differing only in the number of ovules and seeds. — Benth. 
1. B. celsissima (very lofty), F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 248; Benth. FI. Austr. 
v. 532. A tree attaining 60ft. or more, the young branches and inflorescence 
minutely hoary-tomentose. Leaves petiolate, elliptical-oblong, acute or obtuse, 
tapering at the base, 3, 5 or more in. long, dark green and apparently glabrous 
above but sprinkled with minute hairs only visible under the lens, glaucous or 
almost silvery underneath, covered with the same grevillioid hairs. Racemes 
4 to Bin. long, somewhat secund, the flowers crowded nearly from the base. 
Pedicels slender, about Jin. long. Perianth silvery, 3 to 4 lines long. Anthers 
broad, with a thick rather broad connective. Ovary glabrous. Follicle broadly 
and obliquely ovate, about lin. long, with a short incurved point. Seeds broadly 
obovate. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay, Dallacliy ; and other notthern localities. 
16. DARLINGIA, F. v. M. 
(After Sir Ralph Darling). 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth regular, the tube slender, straight, the 
limb globular, erect. Anthers all perfect, sessile in the base of the concave 
laminae, the connective produced beyond the cell into a minute gland-like 
appendage. Hypogynous glands 4, globular. Ovary sessile, with 4 collateral 
amphitropous ovules attached about the middle ; style filiform, with an ovoid 
fusiform end and a small terminal stigma. Fruit a compressed follicle, opening 
along the upper suture. Seeds very flat and thin, surrounded by a wing-like 
margin. — Tree. Leaves entire or pinnatifid, penniveined. Flowers sessile in 
pairs in terminal paniculate racemes. Bracts none or minute and deciduous. 
The genus is limited to a single species endemic in tropical Australia. Like Buckinghamia 
it is closely allied to Grevilleu, differing only in the number of ovules and seeds, and distinguished 
from Buckinghamia. like the sections Anudenia and Mnnglesia from Eugrevillea, chiefly in the 
straight perianth. The sessile flowers and minute appendages to the anther remove it also in 
a slight degree from both genera. — Benth. 
1. 15. spectatissima (very notable), F. v. M. Fragm. v. 152; Benth. FI 
Austr. v. 533. “Clialagar,” Barron River, F. Bailey. A tree, quite glabrous 
or the inflorescence minutely ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves oblong or oblan- 
ceolate, obtuse or acute, entire or deeply 3-lobed or pinnatifid with 5 to 7 long 
lanceolate acute lobes, tapering into a rather long petiole, the whole leaf B or 
Bin. to lift, long, penniveined with rather numerous almost parallel primary 
veins. Racemes in the upper axils 4 to Bin. long, forming a terminal panicle 
shorter than the leaves, with numerous flowers. Perianth glabrous, -Jin. long, 
the tube slender, the laminae tipped with small dorsal obtuse appendages, distinct 
in the hud. Ovary villous ; style long. Follicle 1 1, to nearly 2in. long, nearly 
lin. broad, recurved. Seeds oblong, as long as the follicle. — Helicia DarUngiana 
F. v. M. Fragm. v. 24 ; K night ia Darlinyii, F. v. M. l.c. 152. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay. DaUachy ; Barron River, J. F. Bailey. 
Wood tougb, nicely marked, and should prove useful timber for cooper and cabinet work. — 
J. V. Bailey, Report on Timber of Ilerberton District, Sept., 1899. 
