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long footstalk, branched at the upper part jnto about three pairs of 

 pinna?, the lowermost of which are longest and various forked at 

 the end ; points all armed with a callous reddish mucro Oi* gland. 

 Common flower solitary, globose, sessile. Calycine scales ovate 

 acuminate, very woolly except the margin, completely imbricate, 

 forming a globose cone stuffed with a fine white cottony substance. 

 Corolla 1-petaled, tubed ; tube longer than limb, which is 4-cleft, 

 hairy, tortuose. Anthers linear, 24obed, sessile ; style exserted, 

 club shaped. Stigma conical, acute ; the style and stigma have a 

 singular appearance in this species, something like two cones with 

 their bases applied together, but when the flowers first open these 

 parts are so entirely covered with the pollen as to appear 4- 

 sided. (Adapted from Curtis' s Botanical Magazine, pi. 697, and 

 Johnson, Gardeners' Dictionary.) 



40055. Isopogon anethifolius (Salisb.) Knight. 



Distribution. — A low shrub 3 to 4 feet high with leaves resem- 

 bling those of dill (Anethum graveolcns L.) and bearing conical 

 heads of small yellow flowers, found from Port Jackson to the Blue 

 Mountains in New South Wales. 



40056. Lambertia Formosa Smith. Proteacese. 



"Another very striking plant was the Honey flower, with small, pointed 

 glaucous leaves that could inflict a good sharp prick on marauding 

 fingers. The Lambertia, which is said to be confined to this State, has 

 numbers of heavy bell-shaped flowers of scarlet and pink that are usu- 

 ally sticky with a rank honey, much sought after by the pretty little 

 honey eaters, who dip their long, curved bills deep down into these showy 

 blossoms and thus help to propagate the species." (H. M. Vaughan, An 

 Australian Wander-Year, p. 72.) 



40057. Macadamia ternifolia F. Mueller. Proteacese. 



Queensland nut. 



See S. P. I. No. 18382 for previous introduction and description. 

 40058 to 40060. Persoonia spp. Proteacese. 



40058. Persoonia angtjlata R. Brown. 



Distribution. — A shrub with linear-lanceolate sharp-pointed leaver 

 crowded on the erect branches and with small solitary axillary 

 flowers, found on the slopes of the Blue Mountains in New South 

 Wales. 



40059. Persoonia media R. Brown. 



Distribution. — A tall, erect shrub with elliptical, falcate leaves and 

 small axillary flowers which are followed by dark-colored berries, 

 found in the valley of the Brisbane River in Queensland and along 

 the Hastings and Clarence Rivers in New South Wales. 



40060. Persoonia myrtilloides Sieber. 



Distribution. — A spreading shrub about 4 feet high with oblong- 

 ovate leaves and small yellowish white flowers in the axils of the 

 upper leaves, found in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales and 

 at an altitude of 4,000 feet in the Nangatta Mountains in Victoria. 

 40061 and 40062. I'ETKorini.A spp. Proteacese, 



