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Planta 3-5 alta. Rami obtuse tetragoni. Folia breviter petio- 
lata, chartacea, summa qus tantum vidi 1—11" longa, 4—6" lata, 
plana, uninervia, dissite pennivenia, concoloria, vernicoso-nitentia ; 
vena peripherica a margine remota. Cym:s pauci- v. pluriflorz, 
v. superiores ad flores 3 reducta... Pedunculi primarii 3—1" longi, 
basi bractea foliacea lanceolata v. lineari-lanceolata aut si mavis 
folio florali diminuto suffulti, Bractes a basi paniculz, ubi folia 
ordinaria simulant, ad apicem inflorescenti& sensim magnitudine 
decrescentes. Pedunculi secundarii semunciales v. breviores, basi 
bracteam subulato-lanceolatam 1-2" longam gerentes. Pedicelli 
1-2" longi, basi bracteolis bracteas smulantibus etsi minoribus 
muniti. Calyces persistentes, floriferi circiter 3" alti, fructiferi 
duplo altiores, nervis 5 primariis et numerosis secundariis reti 
venarum junctis percursi, transparentes, persistentes. Corolla 
decidua, colore in statu sicco haud cognoscendo, forsan haud 
cyanea, extus brevissime pubescens, intus glabra; labii superi 
lobis semirotundis vix ultra 1" latis, praefloratione extimis; labii 
inferi lobis lateralibus semiorbiculatis fere 2" latis, lobo medio 
renato-rotundo v. orbiculari circiter 3" metiente, sub zestivatione 
intimo, Stamina prope basin corolle inserta, glabra; filamenta 
filiformia; 2 superiora circiter 1" longa; 2 inferiora pene ses- 
quilinearia. JAntherz flave, exappendiculatz, cirea 1j" longe. 
Stylus setaceus, diu persistens, terminalis, glaber, 4—5" longus, 
sursum leviter curvatus. Stigma simplex. Capsula 2-3" metiens, 
basi calycis inclusa, vertice ob dentes planos productos depressa, 
crustacea. Semen 1i" longum. Testa glabra, tenerrime mem- 
branea, dilute fusca. Embryo albidus. Cotyledones pene foliaceze, 
1" longs, late ovatz. : 
PROTEACEX. 
Persoonia arborea. 
(Sect. Leptostylis.) 
Praalta, ramulis tomentellis, foliis lanceolato- v. angusto-ob- 
longis elongatis uninervis planis in basin cuneatam sensim con- 
tractis chartaceis muticis subtus subtilissime pubescentibus et 
pallidioribus supra glabratis, floribus axillaribus solitariis v. brevi- 
ter racemosis, stylo putamini psne zquilongo glabro, drupis fere 
globosis conspicue stipitatis. 
In silvis umbrosis humidis vallium ad ripas superiores fluviorum 
Tyeres River, Tarwin, La Trobe's River, Tangil et in fagetis 
regionum inferiorum montis Baw Baw. | F. M. r . 
Arbor ad 30' alta. Indumentum ramulorum ferrugineum v. 
magis canescens. Folia 2-43" longa, 1-2" lata, haud aversa, apice . 
scepe obtusa, basi in petiolum satis brevem decurrentia, tenuiter et 
distanter pennivenia, indistincte reticulari-venulosa. Pedicelli 
sive axillares solitarii, sive in apice v. infra apicem ramulorum 
racemum brevem bracteolatum struentes, tomentelli, erassiusculi, 
