Tas. 4644. 
HAKEA Scoparta. 
Broom-like Hakea. 
Nat. Ord. Proteack®.—TrtRaNnDRIA MoNnoGynIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4643.) 
Hakea Scoparia; ramulis puberulis, foliis elongato-filiformibus semiteretibus 
mucronato-acuminatis 5-sulcatis sulcis villosis costisque obtusis ima basi 
dilatata, floribus capitatis capitulis sessilibus involucratis, pedicellis florem 
equantibus, perianthiis glabris, stylo elongato breviore, stigmate cylindraceo. 
' Hakea Scoparia. Meisn. Plant. Preiss. v. 1. p. 556 (note). 
This species of Hakea is a native of the Swan River Settle- 
ment, and has been sent in seed with corresponding dried speci- 
mens (numbered 600) by Mr. Drummond. Our no. 461 and 
272 from the same collector, may be the same or varieties. It 
1s evidently the plant described by Dr. Meisner in the ‘ Planta 
Preissiane’ above quoted, from specimens of Mr. Drummond 
in Mr. Shuttleworth’s herbarium. ‘The author, indeed, thinks 
It possible it may prove to be a variety of H. sulcata, but to 
us it appears unquestionably different, and the distinguishing 
characters are well pointed out by Dr. Meisner. He correctly 
observes, “ Folia sepius insecti cujusdam acu hinc inde tume- 
facta legumina quaedam lomentacea imitantia.” 
Descr. A small shrub, with rather tortuous terete branches, 
clothed with pale grey éark, the younger ones puberulous. 
Leaves alternate, eight to ten inches long, about as thick as a black- 
bird’s quill, elongated, filiform, rigid, semiterete, rather deeply five- 
furrowed throughout their whole length, the upper furrow the 
broadest, hairy in the furrows, the apex sharply mucronate, the 
base, where inserted upon the branch, a little swollen and dilated. 
Flowers pale yellow, arranged in sessile heads, which are axillary, 
APRIL Ist, 1852, 
