Petrophila.| CIV. PROTEACER. 329 
very flat, with wing-like margins, 3 lines long and broad, pubescent 
with short hairs, with a short coma at the base. 
W. Australia. Drummond, 4th coll. n. 262; Stirling Range, F. Mueller. 
17. P. Shuttleworthiana, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss, ii. 246, and in DO. 
-xiv. 275. A rigid shrub, glabrous except the cones. Leaves on 
ioles, flattened upwards, cuneate and deeply 3-fid, the segments 
in. 
Prod. 
long pet 
broad or narrow, often above 1 
eter without the perianths, or when in fruit and perfect twice 
as long and thick, but often partially ubor and remaining sh 
Outer bracts very deciduous. Cone-scales at first small, densely villous 
very broad and glabrous in the old cones, Perian , 4 ord 
lines ong, the segments falling off separately. Style-end continuous, 
fusiform, shortly and sparingly hirsute. Nut broad, not winged but 
e margins acute, the margins and outer face comose, the inner glabrous. 
W. Australia. Drummond, 2nd coll. n. 298; Murchison river, Oldfield. 
18. P. Ni B 
the Joung branches tomentose or villous, the adult foliage glabrous. 
the whole leaf 11 to 3 in. long. Cones sessile in the axils and some- 
5068 also terminal, cylindrical, about 1 in. long when in flower, 1} to 
~m. long, and nearly 1 in, diameter when in fruit. Outer bracts not 
p merous, glabrous, shorter than the scales. Cone-scales villous at the 
abou, With glabrous acuminate deciduous ends. Perianth glabrous, 
uc 2 in. long, the segments falling off separately, each tipped with 
Small point, Style-end continuous, fusiform, shortly and sp aringly 
ae N ut broad or na row, not winged, acuminate, hairy a died 
PI, m marginal coma longer than the hairs of the faces.—Meissn. in 
na 1. 902, and in DC xiv. 275 
. Preiss, n. 638; 
W alia. Swan river, Fraser, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 575; Preiss, n. 638; 
“ast, Baudin's Expedition, 
E E broadly cuneate toothed or pinnatifid, giving 
— late "à triangular form of 1 to 9 in., sometimes numerous and lanceo- 
1 ose. e lower ones pinnatifid the upper ones gradually smaller and 
on entire, the whole leaf ovate-lanceolate in form and2 or 3 in. long, 
