328 CIV. PROTEACEJE. | Petrophila. 
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lower e 8 portion which is more persistent as in sopogon. Style- 
end continuous, fusiform, slightly thickened at the base, and hir- 
sute wit xed hairs disappearing after the flowering is 
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over. Nut, peecos to Meissner, nearly flat, oval, with a short ob- 
tuse terminal wing, glabrous with — margins. I have only found 
young fruits which appeared to me to be comose all over, as in Zsepogon. 
w. a Between Moore and Mn dud rivers, Drummond, 6th coll. 
172. This species has so much of the character of Isopogon, that 1 should at once 
have ae d to that genus were it not for the Due ET which prevails about 
the shape and indumentum of the nut, besides that the much more that of the 
section Serrurioides of Petr ose than of Jsopogon aA. which is the nearest 
to the present species in fone 
. P. trifida, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 70, Prod.300. A tig 
b, the young — s men a " fine spre eading hairs, esie 
glabrous except the cones. Leaves on long flattened petioles, tuna 
ie or vede Biunatild, with few vasnáliy broad rigid pungent-pom 
lower ones some etimes 1 in. long when narrow, the w 
not 4 in ; long without the e prints of, when in fruit, 5 to $ in. 
Outer bracts glabrous small and narrow. Cone-scales broad, glabrous 
in the lower arty mans villous idi di obtuse end. Perianth silky- 
villous, about ong’, the tube sind, usually falling off entire. 
Style- end continuons, fusiform, hirsute with a few reflexed hairs in 
longitudina ws. Nut flat t, ovate, 2 to 3 lines long, with broad Mec 
like margins, glabrous « except a short coma at the base.—Meissn. i 
Preiss. i. 501, a ©. Prod. xiv. 273, but not the plate vini o 
pen Bot. Cab 
W. Australia. Lucky Bay, R. Brown; towards Cape Riche? Drummond, 13t 
coll. n. 516. 
ECT SYMPHYOLEPIS, Endl.—Leaves flat, lobed or divided, the 
segments ds ad or also narr ow. Cones axillary or rarely also termin nal. 
s ams eg usually falling off separately. Style-end continuous, 
This section has the eene breton of Petrphite differing generally but not 
absolutely in foliage and inflorescence and in the axis of the cones and the base of the 
cone-scales usually more hardened when in fruit. 
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young br ran shes: oAanienhewes eo aaa or Aide with spreading h u 
the adult Ene labrous. Leaves sessile, S pinn 
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tifid or deeply toothed and undulate, the lobes or teeth broadl i 
ar, fitügein-po ointed, the lowest pair of lobes iter smaller, ys a 
eply separated and occasionally toothed, having the a nie ance d a 
stl ules. Cones axi lary, unculate, at first -— and glo ular, “— E 
or ovoid-oblong when in fruit, above 1 in. long and # m. diameter. 
hie cone, all s 3 
racts small along the peduncles and a few close "under t 
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