CIV. PROTEACEX, 433 
. erect branches, silky-tomentose when young. Leaves very narrow- 
— linear, erect, entire or rarely divided into 9 or 3 segments rigid but 
Tot pungent, 3 to 6 in. long, doubly grooved underneath, sprinkled 
with small appressed silky hairs or at length glabrous. Racemes 
terminal, secund, rather loose, 2 to 4 in. long, flowers numerous. 
2 poo rarely 1 line long, silky-tomentose as well as the rhachis, 
- ihe eie 
nular, broader and flatter in the western than in the eastern spe- 
; vary distinctly stipitate, villous with lone hairs; style 
i i dis obli i 
‘le outer margin.— Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 384; q. sericostachya, 
. "IeISSD, Le, (previously named but without diagnosis in Hook. Kew 
; iv. 186.) 
S. Wales. Near the junction of the Murrumbidgee and the Murray rivers, 
Mueller ; between the Lachlan and Darling rivers, Burkitt. 
ictoria. Wimmera and Murray Desert, Dal, achy. 
Australia, Cooper’s Creek, Howitt's Expedition. 
jw. Australia, Drummond, 5th coll. suppl. n. 10, also n. 70. 
n ents, rigid but not pungent, doubly grooved 
piderneath, glabrous very minutely pubescent, 4 to 8 in. 1 ng. 
*s terminal, erect, dense secund, 3 to 6 in. long on short thic 
icels 8 | 
silky 7? the young raceme but pde very early. Perianth 
- an-villous outside, olabrous inside, the tu 
eed t the base, revolute under the oblique ovoid-globular 
wi aight. Gland broad, flat, semi-lunar. , Ovary sessile, densely 
- Mus i Style long, glabrous, slightly clavate under the oblique 
 Migmatic disk. Fruit thick but flattened, oblique, broad, $ in. long. 
broadly winged all round.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss, i. 545, and in 
$ ay Tod, xiv, 383. 
Bt tive alia, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 636, 2nd coll. n. 328, also n. 13; Murchi- 
5 Oldfield ; Champion Bay, Walcott. : 
mj, hylla, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 208, described from a mere fragment in Drum- 
selection, a Pears to me to be this species with the leaves entire, the margins 
me showing only a single groove underneath. - 
Try 2 Mentose or silk 
AE ineat | igi ent, more or 
VOL, y. Y narrow linear segments, rigid but not pung: si 
