XXX APPENDIX. 



PROTEACEiE. 



No where is the many-faced appearance, from whicii 

 these plants derive their name, more conspicuous than at 

 the Swan River, where they are extremely numerous, and to 

 a great extent different from those of the rest of the conti- 

 nent. No one would suspect the genus Conospermum to 

 belong to the order at all, until after a minute examination, 

 for while the majority of the species with their long woolly 

 panicled irregular flowers have altogether a peculiar aspect, 

 C. acerosum^^^ might be mistaken for a Colletia ; and 

 C. glumaceum^^^ has altogether the appearance of some Bu- 

 pleurum with great membranous bracts. Stirlingia simplex^'^^ 

 resembles a Sanicula, and many of the species with capitate 

 flowers have greatly the character of a Composite inflores- 

 cence. As to the Hakeas and Grevilleas^ of which there are 

 many, their leaves are so varied and peculiar that a young 

 Botanist might be excused for mistaking them for ferns, or 

 Cycadacese. 



As this order is so important a part of the vegetation of 

 the Colony, and more likely than any other to find its way 

 into gardens, it is desirable to notice the new species in 

 rather more detail than has generally been done in this little 

 sketch. 



Anadenia consists of plants whose leaves are their chief 



(136) Conospermum acerosum; foliis acerosis pungentibus glaberrlmis, pedun- 

 culis axillarlbus solltarils tomeutosis foliis multo brevioribus, capitulis pau- 

 cifloris, bracteis cucuUatis mucronatis calycibusque glabris. 



(137) Conospermum glumaceum; glabrutn, caule ramoso, foliis linearibus uni- 

 nerviis falcatis mucronatis, floribus paniculatis intra capitula glumacea in- 

 clusis, bracteis lanceolatis imbricatis nervatis coloratis, rachi villosa, ovario 

 piloso. 



(138) Conospermum sclerophyUum ; minutissim^ pubescens, caule paniculate, 

 foliis teretibus apice conicis sphacelatis, pedunculis axillaribus foliis dupl6 

 longioribus e spicis alternis, rachibus calycibusq. lanatis. 



(139) Conospermum incurvum ; caule fruticoso dichotomo pubesceute, foliis fili- 

 formibus patentibus canaliculatis incurvis glabris, pedunculis apice racemosis 

 et paniculatis terminalibus angulatis distanter squamatis rachibusque glabris, 

 pedicellis calycibusque villosissimis, galea calva. C. disticho affinis. 



(140) Stirlingia simjtlex ; pedunculis elongatis indivisis, capitulis multifloris, 

 bracteis exterioribus ovato-lanceolatis acutis, 



(I'l') Stirlingia jxi^iiculata ; scapo paniculato multlfloro, capitulis 5-9-floris, 

 foliis ter bipartitis : laciniis lineari-lanceolatis planis apice callosis. 



