322 CIV. PROTEACEJE. [ Petrophila. 
diameter without the perianths. Outer bracts not numerous, not 
erob DiE the scales, a few of the outermost lanceolate-subulate and 
rigid, the others broader and passing into the cone-scales, which are 
broad, scarcely acuminate, glabrous wee at the base or shortl ciliate, 
2 lines diameter when in Hower, to 4 lines when in fruit. p ianth 
about.8 lines long, villous with " hairs at first ed at ad gm spreading, 
W. Australia. Lucky Bay, R. Brown, Baxter ; . towards Cape Riche, Preiss, n. 
0, Dru eie Ath coll. n. 259 and 260; Stirling Md Russell Ranges, Cape Arid and 
riri Bay, Maxwe 
The differences observed i in Baxter's specimens, on which P. crassifolia ; was founded, 
appear to me to be owing to the specimens being in a more advanced fruiting state. 
: longifolia, R. Br. Prot. Nov. 5. A shrub with the leaves 
"s oe odere aa asin P. teretifolia, ni usually 6 to 10 in. e 
Cones terminal and sessile within the last long leaves, broadly ovoid- 
conical, 2 to 1 in. diameter without d variant Outer bracts rigid, 
inear-lanceolate, 4 to 5 lines long. Cone-scales broad, not striate, 
Dr X at the base, more or less i qa and not cite 
ous, tho a oe e 
o "abro 
convex and ew with long hairs. ia! pa in Pl. Preiss 
in DC. Prod. xiv. 269. 
und and adjoining 
stralia. Dry stony and Euge pus vag do 8 i SF, Mueller, & 
W. Au 
districts, ekarten Drummond, 2nd coll. n. 241, Preiss 
astward to the Mount Barren iU S dew 
uifolia. Leaves longer and more slender, the 
cones and flowers smaller, the 
S siio broader and a acuminate.—Kalgan river, Oldfield. 
a, R. Br. Prot. Nov. 5. A shrub with the habit of s 
ry muc 
3. P. medi 
teretifolia. Leaves similarly terete and rather thick, ea: ve 
, mostl 2 to 
long, obtuse or when lon with E eed fme termin: 
ovoid, 6 to 7 lines diameter without the perianths when 
Gitar bracts linear-subulate, much more numerous and longer 4 
ales ovate- — 
olia, and often whitish in the dried state. Cone-s¢ 
. teretifi 
lanceolate, not at all or very obscurely ribbed, with acumina 7 orb. 1 
at length deciduous summits, not ci iate. Periant ^ pelor a 
reflexed or 
lines long, villous, the segments falling off separately. Style-en 
j 
F. 
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