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ON THE PROTEACEÆ OF JUSSIEU.
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Habitus. Frutex glaber. Folia alterna, filiformia, dichotoma. Spicæ axillares, indivisæ, floribus alternis, unibracteatis, sordidè flavis. Pollen sphæricum. Cotyledones brevissimæ!

This genus is named in honour of Sir Thomas Frankland, Baronet, to whom English botany is much indebted, and whose valuable observations and excellent figures of submarine plants it is hoped he may be induced to communicate to the public.

*Franklandia fucifolia.

Hab. In Novæ Hollandiæ orâ australi; Lewins Land : in ericetis humidis. (ubi v. v.)

17. SYMPHIONEMA.

Char. Gen. Calyx regularis, tetraphyllus, basi cohærens, medio staminifer. Filamenta apice cohærentia! Antheræ distinctæ. Glandulæ nullæ hypogynæ. Ovarium dispermum. Stigma subtruncatum. Nux monosperma, cylindracea.

Habitus. Suffrutices v. Herbæ glabræ, pilisve raris glandulosis. Folia tripartita, lobis divisis; inferiora opposita! Spicæ terminates et e summis alis, simplices. Flores alterni, sessiles, unibracteati. Calyx flavus, decidius. Bracteæ cucullatæ, persistentes.


*1. S. paludosum, laciniis foliorum subulatis [158 semi- teretibus, rachibus bracteisque glaberrimis.

Hab. In Novæ Hollandiæ orâ orientali; prope Port Jackson : in ericetis paludosis. (ubi v. v.)

*2. S. montanum, laciniis foliorum planis linearibus uninervibus, rachibus bracteisque pubescentibus pilis glandulosis brevissimis.

Hab. In Novæ Hollandiæ ora orientali; prope Port Jackson: in rupibus humidis. (ubi v. v.)