390 CIV. PROTEACER. | Persoonia, 
a bie section, but was misled by Aetio, figures representing garden plants falsely 
named, his P. flexifolia being P. nutans, and P. spath WN most probably -P P. rigida, 
both of them eastern species of the postih Mablganika ther 
ZI. P. iexoenines. > R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 164, Prod. 374. A 
dwarf shrub or undershrub, with short procumbent stems, glabrous — 
except a "s appressed hairs sprinkled on the young shoots ‘and inflo- 
rescence. Leaves numerous, erect, narrow-linear or very rarely linear- - 
lanceolate, acute, flat, but the mideib and sometimes the margins pro- — 
minent underneath, mostly 6 to 8 in. long, or even more, Flowers | 
small, distant, in slender one-sided ode racemes, terminal or in the 
u e t 
3 . 
pendage. Ovary glabrous, globalis on a short stipes. Style thick but 
x ean angular, fee E with a terminal oblique stigma. 
Ov seeds n Pl. Preiss. i. 533, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 331. 
W.A ing George’s uri R. Brown, Baxter, Drummond, Preiss, n. 
725; Wilsons In ion Oldfield fuis i is the only dei a a truly racemose i 
rescence, without the rhachis growing out into a leafy sh 
ee 3 €—— ná —Style elongated beyond the anthers, 
h a terminal stigma. Anthers all perfect, the connective not pro 
pia joyi the cells. 
22. P. longifolia, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 104, Prod. 374, A 
tall shrub or eed tree of 10 to 90 ft., glabrous or the ae brandhal 
cells. Ovary g Mns on a stipes distinctly sri — irre 
style Ciak wr a terminal stigma ; ovules upe bro i 
SURE us 5 are diameter. 2 Meissn. n PL Pre iss. 1. j 88, m 
p.? 
Prod. xiv. 343; P. Drummondii, Lindl. Swan Riv. Ap 
to Swan 
Ww. prende King George's Sound, A. Brown and others, and thence ; 
river, Drummond, 1 Peri aad and 4 89, pen n. 124, 732; Vasse river, Mrs. ~ 
Cape Naturaliste, Collie. 
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23. P. articulata Br. in Trans, Linn. Soc. x. 164, Prod. id T 
nd interm E 
tall shrub or small tree, pd li eh 
y resembling P. longifolia der 
as it were between that species and P. elliptica. Leave much bro 
than in P. Dd and not falcate a -lanceolate d oblan ; 
d dE ngitudinel anasto zi 
