Petrophila. | CIV. PROTEACER. 325 
narrow, rather clavate than turbinate, the brush shorter, filiform, mi- 
nutely papillose or glabrous. Nut flat with wing-like margins, obovate- 
orbicular, glabrous except a short coma at the base.—Meissn. in PI. 
Preiss. i. 500, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 273. 
W. Australia. Swan river, Fraser, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 566, Preiss, n. 656 ; 
Mount Toodyay, Oldfield. 
P. propinqua, R. Br. Prot. Nov. 7. A shrub of 3 or 4 ft., gla- 
brous except the cones, or the young shoots minutely hoary, the branches 
tather slender. Leaves with long petioles, twice trifid or pinnate with 
the lower pinne again divided, the segments flat, linear or linear- 
lanceolate, mostly pungent-pointed, about 4 in. long or rather longer 
when narrow. DA small, ovoid or at length globular, sessile in the 
axils, not 4 in. long without the perianths. ques nearly glabrous, 
small acute, rigid. Cone-scales villous or with very small glabrous 
ups. Perianth 4 to 5 lines long, very villous with spreading hairs, the 
tube falling off entire. Style-end broadly turbinate 4-aneled and trun- 
čate under the narrow terete almost glabrous brush. Nut flat with 
broad wing-like margins, broadly obovate, 2 lines long, glabrous except 
à few hairs forming a short coma at the base.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 
501, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 273. | 
W. Australia. Swan river, Fraser, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 567. 
- sericiflora stouter shrub. Leaves more divided, rigid, pungent-pointed, the 
mgments 4 to 1 in. long. Perianth rather smaller and more silky-villous.—East Shoal 
Cape and Cape Arid, Maxwell. 
9. P. squamata, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 70, Prod. 3605. A 
shrub of 2 or 3 ft., glabrous except the cones, or the young branches 
m fruit, not above 4 in. long. Outer bracts small. Cone-scales acute, 
igid but smooth and sometimes almost scarious, glabrous or slightly 
short hairs e long, the tube falling off entire. 
Somewhat thickened and glabrous under the rather long filiform nearly 
glabro u broad, with wing-like m s, slight 
Pubescent, with a very short coma at the base. 
> 22; A alle ar Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 499, 0. 245; P. 
8 nya Cunn. Herb. aA 
AoT i ing G , ‘oining districts, Menzies, Fraser, 
Preis n. 651, 652, 2 Medie ases nk onon divers, Oldfield; Clay flats, Willy 
mgup, Maxwell. : 
Meissner'g varieties major and gracilis appear to me to be old and young plants or 
“ranches of the same plant rather than distinct varieties. 
