356 CIV. PROTEACEJE. [ Adenanthos, 
densely plumose outside with yellow hairs, glabrous inside or nearly so. 
Anthers all perfect. Style-end narrow.. 
ustralia. Northof Stirling Range, F. Mueller; W. Mount Barren, Maxwell, 
14. A. apiculata, R. Br. Prot. Nov. 9, not of Meissn. A procumbent 
shrub spreading to 2 or 3 ft., the branches slender, silky-villous when 
ether in terminal clusters and nearly sessile, the bracts nearly glabrous. 
erianth not above 4 in. long, villous with short spreading hairs, t 
lamine glabrous inside or with very few hairs behind the anthers which 
are all perfect. Style-end oblong.— 4. procumbens, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. 
2 ii. 948, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 312; A. Drummondii, Meissn. m PL 
13 
W. Aus . King George’s Sound or to the eastward, Baxter, Preiss, n. 589; 
towards Cape Riche, Harvey ; between Swan river and King George's Sound, Drum- 
mond, 1st coll. n. 593, 3rd coll. n. 253 
Independently of the fine nearly glabrous foliage and lateral glands (which are = 
quite constant), this species is readily distinguished from the four preceding ones by t! 
short flowers. 
4. STIRLINGIA, Endl. 
(Simsia, R. Br. not of Fers.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite or male by abortion. Perianth regular, the 
: : : P ut 
obtuse or dilated and peltate stigma. Fruit a small dry indehiscen 
p 
nut, usually broadly obovoid or obconical with a convex OF ne 
the panicle, each flower sessile within a small bract, 
ceptacle cylindrical ovoid or short, usually villous. — — ias 
The genus is limited to extratropical W. Australia. By the curious conforma 
the anthers it connects the Proteec with the Conospermec. : 
- Leaf-segments terete, filiform or rigid. 
- Bracts narrow, from half as long to nearly as long as the pe- 
rianth-tube. Peduncles single-headed or rarely divided int " 
2 or 3 single-headed branches. S. simplet. EY 
Peduncles solitary or few, 1 to 14 ft. long . . pum 2 
