226 Macrteay Menmoriat Vouume. 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW HAKEA FROM EASTERN NEW SOUTH 
WALES. 
By Baron von Muetier, K.C.M.G., M. & Pu.D., LL.D., F.R.S., ann 
J. H. Mammen, F.L.S. 
(Plate xxix.) 
Haxea Baxertana, F.v.M. & Maiden. 
Branchlets slightly pubescent; leaves crowded, thinly filiform, undivided, simply 
acute, moderately pungent, glabrous or nearly so; flowers of rather large size, 
fasciculate, glabrous, their peduncle conspicuous, slightly beset with hairlets and 
bearing several scattered permanently undeveloped flowerbuds with pubescent very 
short yet broad bracts; pedicels about half as long as the petals and as well as 
these pale rosy-red, except the whitish summit; style very much longer than the 
petals; stigma lateral; ovulary on a short and thick stipes; fruit extremely large, 
almost globular-ovate, verrucular at and towards the upper end, elsewhere somewhat 
rugular ; seed-membrane exceedingly extensive, oblique-ovate, rather broadly 
surrounding both sides and also the base of the nucleus, the latter being nearly 
smooth. 
On a barren patch of ground close to the bank of a creek at Wallsend, near 
Neweastle, New South Wales. Soil sandy loam. Not very abundant in this locality, 
probably rare. The largest plant seen about 6 feet high with a stem of 1 inch 
in diameter, forming a bushy, ornamental shrub. Seen in flower July to September. 
Leaves 2-5 inches long, furrowless. Peduncle often 4 inch long. Petals, by adding 
their terminal curvature, about 3 inch long. Style up to almost 2 inches in length. 
Fruit up to 3 inches long and 2 inches broad, very turgid. Seeds 4-3 inch long, their 
membrane being ? to 1 inch in width at its broadest part. 
It is nearest allied to 77. purpurea; but the leaves of that species are nearly 
always doubly forked, while their divisions are thicker and sharply pointed, the 
flower-fascicles almost sessile, the fruits conspicuously smaller. The new species, as 
regards size of fruit, comes among East Australian congeners near /7. J/acraeana, 
which, however, has leaves underneath uni-furrowed, the flowers quite small, the 
fruit compressed towards the summit, and the seed-membrane much less extending 
to the nucleus. /7. propingua has shorter and more rigid leaves, minute flowers on 
