408 CIV. PROTEACE, [ Xylomelum, 
les ft the fowering branches usually prickly-toothed. 
W d 2. X. occidentale. 
Leaves all quite entire. Perianth silky, ‘under 4 lines lon 
Leaves | idm often faleate, veined. Fruits nearly glabrous, 
TTO s species 3. X. salicinum. 
booa linear or linear-lanceolate, thick and veinless. Fruits 
ary tomentose. Western species NY ed angue 
IM the spikes = rti densely tomentose-villous. dea noe the 
Ic. : LI t. 90; Banksia primis ertn. Fr. i. 2 20, i 
te, Voy. 224, t. 91; Hakea ML Wi S Anal. Hist. Net i. à, 
Ic. vi. 95, t. 536 ; Conchium pyriforme, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 141. 
N. S. Wales. "Port Jackson, R. Brows, Sieber, n. 53, and many others. 
2. X. occidentale, R. Br. Prot, Nov. 31. An irregular shrub or tree 
of 12 to 25 ft., the young shoots and inflorescence Mes ferruginous 
or hoary-tomentose, the older leaves glabrous. Leaves petiolate, ovate 
elliptical or t oblong, irregularly marked pom a — Seu undulate prickly 
teeth, 3 to 5 in. long. Spikes in the 3 to long; 
flowering iui ve base and forming a large etmissl densely branched 
pereo with the floral leaves much. ie duced, or sometimes the leafy 
appe ; 
xS 3 in. long 
and about 1 in. diameter near the win , somewhat umen: i: 
xiv. 423; Hook. Ic. Pl, t 
— King dos 8 foeni; JM'Lean ; Geographe Bay, Fraser; 
Ph B r, Drummo d, 1st coll. n. 616, Preiss, n. 754; Vasse river, Oldfield. - I have pa 
oubts gute E species be sufficiently distinct from X. pyriforme. 
n R. Br. Prot. Nov. 31. A 
pilos exe exce ept t thw inorescene or the young shoots ` minutely oe : 
scent. Leaves lanceolate, broad or "narrow, obtuse, falcate, De 1 
Heros into a slender petiole, 4 to 8 in. long, of a pale green $^» —— 
