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Tsopogon. | CIV. PROTEACER, - Y 949 
97. I. formosus, R. Br. in Trans, Linn. Soc. x. 72, Prod. 366, A 
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shrub low and bushy, or erectléss branched and attaining 4 to 6 ft., 
the young shoots sometimes densely villous with soft s reading hairs, 
the adult foliage usually glabrous, the branches more or less tomentose 
Leaves rather crowded i i 
narrow segments, terete or grooved, someti short divaricate rigid 
ngent-pointed, sometimes longer more erect and acu y, th 
whole leaf rar bove 2 in. lon ones terminal or rarely in the 
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upper axils, sessile, globular or at leneth ovoid, $ to 2 in 
vithout the posu, usually very villous. Outer bracts lanceolate or 
ate, no 
Perianth re glabrous, but wi all terminal tufts of hairs, about i 
In. long yle-end narrow-clavate, contracted into a short neck below 
the pubescent bulbous b brush. Receptacle oblong, 3 to 
nearly 1 in. long.—Bot. R 88; Meissn. in Pl i. 506 
eg. t. 19 
1. 247, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 278; F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 240. 
Australia, King George's Sound and adjoining districts, very frequent, R. 
Brown, A, Cunningham, Drummond, n. 182, 185, coll. 2, n. 295, coll. 3, n. 247; Preiss, 
n. 683, 637, and many others, extending to Vasse river, Oldfield, and eastward to 
Cape Arid, Maxwell, ihe latter with rather smaller cones in the upper axils. 
38. I. diver ens, R. Br. Prot. Nov. 7. A glabrous shrub, either 
spreading and 1 to 1} ft. high, or more bushy and attaining 3 or 4 f 
aves once or twice pinnately divided into rather slender though rigid 
terete segments, obtuse or mucronate, erect or spreading, the whole 
leaf rarely under 3 in. and often above 4 in. long. Cones terminal, 
ovoid, conspicuous for their long purple flowers, but the cones themselves 
never much above 4 in, diameter and ? in. long. Outer bracts few and 
sh Cone-scales broadly cuneate, villous outside, the broad ends 
becoming glabrous in the old cones and closely imbricate. Perianth 
fally 1 in, long when well developed, shorter in a few specimens, gla- 
brous except small terminal tufts. Style-end clavate, minutely but 
ense aicet, separated by a slight constriction from the broadly 
bulbous ase of the brush which is prominently ribbed and nearly gla- 
brous, Receptacle oblong-cylindrical.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 505, 
and in DC. Prod. xiv. 277; F. Muell. F ragm. vi. 241. 
W. Australia. Swan river, Fraser, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 560, 573, Preiss, n. 
667; Culjong, Murchison river, Oldfield. 
6 in. long. Cones globular or at length shortly ovoi 
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pout j in. diameter, terminal or rarely also in the upper axils. Outer 
atts broad, closely imbricate, tomentose outside, persistent and often 
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ening after owering, passing into the scales which are narrower, 
y densely villous Ba and mostly with minute glabrous tips. 
