330 CIV. PROTEACEJE. | Petrophila. 
the segments and teeth mucronate-acute and sometimes Cie 
pointed, but less so than in P. striata and P. a 
wW 
Outer bracts glabrous. Cone-scales villous, with e Mee 
often ut m d and the whole scale becoming nearly ein 
diverging, the central one sin the siis glabrous except à sho 
coma at the base.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. . 499, ii. 246, and in DC. 
. xiv. 274. 
. Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining eni R. Brown, A. Cun 
ningham, Preiss, n. 637, F. Mueller, and others; Vasse river, Oldfield ; Darling Range, 
Drummond, 2nd xd. n. 297, (Brd coll. ?) n. 261. 
Szcr. 5. PETROPHILE, Endl.—Leaves divided or rarely simple, the 
segments terete or, in P. bite duet and P. plumosa, Hat but narrow. 
Cones terminal, or in P. pedunculata and P. peni also axillar 
ary. 
ron at cin falling off a s Style-end continuous, fusi- 
20. P. biternata, Meissn. in Hook. Kem Journ. vii. 69, and in 
Prod. xiv. 275. A stout Hid irah, glabrous except the cones or the 
branches minutely hoary-tomentose. Leaves pinnate with 3 or 9 seg- 
Le : 
inents or the lower ones again 2- or 3-lobed, all flat but narrow, thick 
d 
above 1 in. diameter, terminal and almost sessile apone the las 
Outer bracts broad, short, hard, glabrous and shin ien 
broad, the outer ones 3 or 4 lines long, acuminate, rig ‘ “woolly at the 
base onl , the inner ones smaller, very y woolly, with small glabrous up 
Perianth scarcely above 4 in. long, slender, Jabrous or slightly vise! 
Style-end continuous, vanes shortly pa jillose- dualis Nut. broadly 
obovate, the margins como both faces s brou 
Heg Australia. Between vidi and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 
6th coll. n. 
21. P. plumosa, Meissn. in ro son Kew Journ. vii. 69, and in DC. Prod. 
xiv. 273. An erect shrub of 1 or 2 ft., the barioto virgate, hoary” 
arly glabr av 
spathulate, dilated at the end and entire or shortly divided into2 or? - 
rigid Vini so ted flat lobes, the whole leaf 3 to 1j in. 
dis S ete 
periant s. Outer cone-scales ovate-oblong, villous at th 
ciduous upper portion A aiite with ciliate n: the but 
— ow an villous, 1 in. long >“ 
