Tas. 4528. 
HAKEA cucuLuATa. 
Cucullate-leaved Hakea. 
Nat. Ord. Prorpacr®.—TETRANDRIA MoNnoGyYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Perianthium tetraphyllum, irregulare, foliolis secundis, apicibus 
cavis staminiferis. 4nuthere immerse. Glandula hypogyna unica, dimidiata. 
Ovarium pedicellatum, dispermum. Stigma subobliquum, e basi dilatatum, mucro- 
natum. Folliculus unilocularis, ligneus, pseudo-bivalvis, loculo excentrico. Se- 
mina ala apicis nucleo longiore. Br. 
Haxea cucullata ; erecta, ramis dense villosis, foliis cordatis seu reniformi-cor- 
datis auctis subrepandis denticulatis reticulato-venosis, capsulis ecalcaratis. 
HAKEA cucullata. Br. Prodr. Suppl. p.30. Hook. Ic, Pl. t.441. Meisn. m "4 
Lehm. Plant. Preiss. v.1. p. 260. e¢ v. 2. p. 260. 
Discovered by the late Mr. Baxter at King George’s Sound, 
from whose specimens Mr. Brown described the species in the 
Supplement of his ‘ Prodromus,’ and from whose specimens also 
the figure in ‘ Icones Plantarum,’ above quoted, was taken. At 
that time only fruit-bearing plants were detected. Mr. 
Drummond has also found flowering individuals at the Swan 
River Settlement, and has sent seeds, from flowering plants of — 
which our figure was taken at the Royal Gardens, in April 
1850. Professor Meisner confounded H. cucullata with it in 
the ‘Plante Preissiane :—probably its nearest affinity is the 
noble H. Victoria of Mr. Drummond’s Journal, given in a late 
volume of the ‘ London Journal of Botany,’ and of which there 
are living plants also at Kew. 
Drscr. Our plants of this constitute erect shrubs, four to five 
feet high, the dranches terete, pale brown, very villous. Leaves 
coriaceous, slightly villous only near the base below, cordate, or 
reniform-cordate, sessile, large, spreading, concave, more so I 
the upper leaves, repand and waved and rather minutely toothed 
at the margin, glaucous green, distinctly reticulated both above 
and below. From the axils of the upper leaves the flowers ap- 
pear in copious clusters : at first surrounded by imbricated deci- 
duous bracts. Pedicels clavate, hairy at the base. Perianth red, 
of four unequal linear sepals, glabrous, the apex of each spathu- 
late and bearing the anther in the hollow of the interior. Ovary 
linear. Style very long, twice as long as the longest sepals. 
Stigma conical-acuminate. Fruit (represented in the ‘ Icones 
Plantarum’ above quoted) clustered, about an inch long, ovate, 
acuminated, woody, splitting into two thick, semiovate, woody 
valves, gibbous and unequal on the outside. WV. J. H. 
auGusT Ist, 1850. 
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