Persoonia. | CIV. PROTEACEJE. 387 
W. Australia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 597, Preiss, n. 729. 
Var? pedicellaris. Pedicels 3 to 6 liues long. Flowers much less villous or 
ers examined.— Murchison river, Oldfield. 
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EM only with a few hairs. Ovary not thickened, and the ovule abortive in the 
ll. P. rudis, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 833. A shrub mel ipa à 
reading or procumbent, the younger parts densely hirsute with so 
ond hairs, the older foliage gla 
linear-subulate, nearly terete, grooved without any promin 
12. P. microcarpa, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soe. x. 100, Prod. 879. 
An erect broom-like shrub of 8 to 5 ft. 
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scarcely prominent midrib, acute, to 4 in. long. Flowers axillary, 
usually in clusters of 2 or 3, on very short villous pedicels rarely ex- 
line. Bracts ovate or lanceolate, villous, sometimes ng 
as the pedicels. Perianth villous with appressed hairs, 4 to 5 
long. Anthers inserted nearly at the base of t th-segments, 
the connective produced into a short broad ae e. gla- 
brous, very shortly stipitate, tapering into a thick style recurved at the 
ftd with an oblique stigma, but longer than the anthers; ovules 2. 
pe small, Bekcly globular.—Meissn. in DC. Prod. 
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ahi et aa. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, A. Cun- 
ningham, Drummond, 3rd coll. n. 260, Preiss, n. 728, and many others. 
13. P, sulcata, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 833. A much-branched 
shrub, apparently divaricate or procumbent, glabrous or with a slight 
a» he branches. Leaves crowded, spreading, subulate, 
uU and ungent-pointed, doubly grooved by the prominent abr 
| ito lin. long. Pedicels axillary, solitary, 1 to 
ong, glabrous. Perianth glabrous, acute, about 4 lines long, 
e. Anthers with long narrow appen- 
Drummond, n. 168, 4th coll. n. 274. 
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