Persoonia.] ClV. PROTEACEJ. 383 
Ovary glabrous. Flowers erect, almost sessile. Leaves with 
much recurved or serve te margins, narrow, acute, nerve- 
less, silky unslernea 
Leaves sprea oud iid above, idi or linear-lanceo- 
late, 14 to 24 in. long . eo. . 46. P. mollis. 
Leaves si sales 3 abov ve, 3 to S 
one mesh or linear spathu late. Perinth villous . 47. P. rigida 
ear. Perianth pubescent . . . . .48. P curv ifolia. 
Ovar. Batons. dum with a few hairs in P. oblongata). 
lowers spreading or Sey > Leaves flat or ped recurved 
mm ovate-langeolate to 14 in).. Dinos “about 4 in. 
ianth glabrous, without points . 49. P. oblongata. 
d bu. or lanceolate, under 1 in, Pedicels 1 to 4 lines 
es line ovate, flat (4 to 2 Mes Perianth — with 
long bina to the segr . 80. P. Cunninghamii. 
Leaves lanceolate t Án st ovala, flat e to 1in. às Perianth bns 
Mr with CHR . 51. P. myrtilloides. 
Leaves ovate (2 to 3 li wie t ceci Gt to 6 Hines). Pe- : 
rianth glabrous, without . 52. P. oxycoccoides. 
Leaves narrow-linear . 53. P. nutans, 
Ovary glabrous Leaves linear bad or narrow), concave or 
dla above or nearly flat without any prominent mid- 
Punt mostly 1 to 14 in. lon 
Leaves o oblong-linear or Tinear aga d to 2 lines 
, broad. Pedicels serena he . 54. v decere 
pave ar. Podicele ibe , alk ton eared sigo 
tam mostly bto in. lon ig. 
Leaves m Eoi ot pungent, Ovary 1- ovulate . . 56. P. cham«epeuce. 
aves narrow-linear or subalate, pungent-pointed . . . 57. P. juniperina. 
Leaves litora, not pung E PR 
Ovary 2-ovulate. e it ge segments without points P. tenuifolia. 
acerosa. 
Ovary 1. sn. Perianth-segments with subulate points bo, P, 
Secr. 1. Pycxosrvris, Meissn.—Style short, often as thick as the 
Ovary, incurved or hooked at the end, burying the stigma in a cavity of 
the a perianth-segment ‘aloe the anther. 
l. Ph hakezformis, Meissn. in DO. Prod. xiv. 930. A very rigid 
shrub, the young shoots and Se E — or villous. 
, groove 
underneat i ori 2 i . Pedic ‘is9to3 lines long, 
sath, thick and rigid, I to 2 in. ety ee whee 
glabrous, contracted at the base oie a thick stipes, an 
thick s style curved and hooked at the end, with a lateral stigma 
din the cavity of the upper perianth-segment. Fruit not seen. 
X Australia, Drummond, Ath coll. n. 275. E 
P. teretifolia, R. B Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 160, Prod. 
bush, y shrub of erma ft. ie reer shoots and Taher niin’ ferrugi- 
