Er. 
386 CIV. PROTEACEJE. [Persomia, — 
P 
or short point.—Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 391; P. mimosoides, A. Cunn. : 
He oí ; 
ustralia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; M'Adam Range, 
F; Mir, Escape Cliffs, a lla; Victoria river, Bynoe; Cygn pe ‘Bay, N.W. coast, | 
A: ved form with the pedicels only remaining, but appa- 
rently rather this species than "p lon gifolia 
ensland. Ay: York, poe, Dayman' s island, Endeavour Straits, W. Hill; 
Endeavoar river, Cunni ngham, W. Hi ill ; ZEstuary of the Burdekin, £ itzalan ; Ken. 
nedy district, air ee; Edgecombe and Rockingham Bays, Dallachy; Cape and 
Bowen rivers, ” Bowma 
T 2. ANTERA: —Style elongated beyond the FE "T | 
a eni inal et stigma. Anthers all perfect, ‘the connective produced into 
diss ey ond the cells. 
8. P. trinervis, JMeissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 332. A shrub with the 
young shoots silky- pubescent or villous, the adult foliage pen 
i ous 
clustered in the axils, sessile or on very short thick pedicels, each within 
a small villous bract. Perianth densely villous with ferruginous hairs, 
very obtuse, about 5 lines long. Anthers with very short obtuse ap- 
pendages to the connective. Ovary densely villous, contracted into a 
very short stipes; style straight, rather thick but elongated, with a ter- 
minal stigma; ovule solitary. 
W. Australia, Drummond, 5th coll. suppl. n. 5. 
9. P. tortifolia, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 331. e in our speci- 
mens denen from a i rhizome, branching, not abov 
the branches and young shoots silky or hoary-pubescent, the fo lia 
length glabrous e nearly so. Leaves oblong- or ine ie 
“set almost obovate, mucronate, contracted into a $ ort - 
7 twisted at least when dry, coria ane l-nerved on the upp? 
in. or f the 
pedicels. 
Pih iod in. long Ep ia icons with appressed bar 
Anthers with rather En narrow egos res to the Vig et gl 
n org iida n. 169, " coll. n. 212. 
10. P tiflora, Benth. A shrub of about l 
branches Linda hoary-tomentose, the foliage glabrous. 
narrow linear or terete as in P. microcarpa, but usu ually m 
rarely above 3 in. S as and the thicker midrib and more pr i 
d s por them a more striate or doubly sst appearance. 
3 together in the axils, on pedicels of 1 to 2 lines. 
fully j in. vids narrower than in P. mierocarpa, silky-v villous wi 
