" 
Persoonia. | CIV. PROTEACER. 389 
8. P. quinquenervis, Hook. Te. Pl. t, 425. A shrub of 5 to 7 ft. ; 
ais branches slightly pubescent. Leaves broadly linear-spathulate or 
oblong-lanceolate, m mucronate, pe into a short petiole, rigid, 
with 5 5 prominent longitudinal nerves, glabrous or minutely pop ose, 
11 in. long. edicels solitary in itis axils, ł to 4 in. long, glabrous 
: Australia Swan ri i Daun e lst coll. n. 596; York district, Preiss, 
The species Xe differs from t Kui urs except in the broader leaves 
m Aet larger s eae and perhaps in statur 
19. P. rufiflora, Mvissn. in Hook. Ken Journ. vii. 72, x " DC. Prod. 
X. 332. A eh ub at first sight poss resembling P 
i f t e flowe 5 
m i 
Perianth about 4 lines long, very densely ferruginous-villous. Anthers 
not reaching above half the len eth of the ements, with short gland- 
appenda ages to the connective. Ovary abruptly stipitate, broad, 
glabrous ; style elongated, slender, with a terminal stigma. Ovules 9. 
TTEN Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th coll. n. 
n Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 162, Prod. 973. Ap- 
E uy " e on pA branches pubescent. Leaves crowded, 
m ganceolate or more or less spathnlate but never so much so as in 
Ovary Stipitate, labrous, via straight filiform style and stigma.— 
ssn. in DC, Prod. xiv, 337 P. flexi ifolia, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
—. 1162, Prog, 372, not of LA and others ; " spathulata, R. Br. ll. ec. 
. and 373, n ot of a and others. 
arium, with S any flowers. p 
at we 
rtom pager 
puta ill 9bserve between different xpi imens of other goes In P. flexifi is -e 
bern aether smaller and narrower than in P. scabra there are fewer hairs on 
‘tight wet in P | or, wih wan 
fingi z rud perianths, : SECUS agree in the habit cei other characters which dis- 
