Petrophila. | CIV. PROTEACER, 331 
labrous. Nuts flat, with broad wing-like margins, obovate, truncate, 
ines long, minutely pubescent and very shortly comose at the base. 
W. Australia. Moore river, Drummond, 6th coll. n. 164. 
22. P. ericifolia, R. Br. Prot. Nov. D. An erect shrub of 2 or 3 
ft, with virgate branches more or less tomentose or woolly, ft usually 
g or 
m. 'ong, erect and crowded along the branches, mostly terminated by 
à small point or oblique gland or quite obtuse. Cones terminal, sessile, 
o 2 in. diameter. O 
S 
A 
or 8 lines long, glutinous and hirsute with spreading hairs, the segments 
i j pecies. Style-end 
King George's Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, Baxter, 
n. 650, and many others. 
Var. scabr -_ Leaves rather longer and more scabrous, cones larger; flowers 
2 Villous.—P. scabriuscula, Meissu. in Pl. Preiss. i. 495, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 
—Swan river? Drummon 
Drummond, Preiss, 
Var. glabriflora. Perianth glabrous.—Stirling Range, F. Mueller. 
P phylicoides, R, Br. Prot. Nov. 6; Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 268, described from 
o me 
“ame as the more glabrous forms of P. ericifolia, a species which as a whole is very 
oo from any other, ‘The small crowded leaves give it some outward peace tren 
in the conspicua or to P. chrysantha, but these leaves are all simple, never divided as 
m the latter two, 
23, P. chrysantha, Meissn. in Hook. Kew Journ. vii. 68, and in DC. 
Prod. xiv. 271, A shrub of 2 or 3 ft., with erect branches, the young 
shoots tomentose-pubescent and sprinkled with long fine hairs, be- 
ming at length nearly glabrous. Leaves short and crowded along 
8 
the bra 
nches, simply pinnate, with terete pungent-pointed segments 
grooved above, the it pair proceeding don ear the base of the 
Petiole, the w leaf not exceeding $ in ones terminal, sessile, 
i in. 
ag 3 to 4 lines diameter without the perianths. Outer bracts broad, 
EMG or with minute points, imbricate, glabrous except the ciliate 
argins; outer cone. scales similar, the inner ones ually narrower, 
usi concave, hirsute outside with long hairs, glabrous inside. Perianths 
ut 5 line long ellow 
