366 CIV. PROTEACEZE. [ Conospermum. 
branches, the leaves all reduced to small scales. Bracts broadly sheath- 
ing, truncate te, about lj lines long. Perianth glabrous, the tube — 
4 line s long, slightly gibbous at the top on the upper side; lam 
meia , 6 to 7 lines — , all equal ied: slightly thickened inside 
along the centre.—Meissn. n Pl. Preiss. i. 525, and in DC. Prod. xi 
pese ii Teong t. 46. 
King George’s Sound, R. Brown, A. Cunñingham, Drummond, 
2nd hep e $n, revel, n. 785, and many others ; E. Mount Barren, Maxwell. 
4. C. flexuosum, R. Br. Prot. Nov. 1l. An undershrub attaining 
3 or 4 ft. (Oldfield), the greater part occupied by a broad leafless 
i Si arostó very flexuose me 
angled branches. Leaves radical or at the base of the stem, long- 
d 
rather ri id, with prominent margins, 6 in sii . to nearly 1 ft. long including 
the petiole. Flowers small, whitish, quite glabrous, in little spikes or 
heads of 2 to 6 at the ends of the branchlets. Bracts sheathing, ob- 
tuse, nearly as long as the lor on the roe tube about 1 line 
w. a. King George’s Sound and adjoining districts, Baxter, Drum- 
mond, Pos cw : 309, 310, 5th coll. n. 402, Preiss, n. 753, Oldfield, F. Mueller ; Cape 
Naturaliste and Vasse river, Oldfield. 
T. 9. EvcoxosPERMUM.— Perianth-limb 2-lipped, as long as of 
e over the 
lower lip more or less deeply divided into 3 narrow Tobes often 4 
thickened along the centre. 
. C. acerosum, aur Swan Riv. App. 90. An —€— -— glabrous 
is attaining 3 o Leaves de rigid, acute and 0 d : 
pungent- undc de mos stly 1 to2 in. long. Flowers = axillary e = 
a 
leaves. Bracts bedod, fociis half as Sed as the perian en 
Perianth glabrous, D : eee m the lobes about as lon i = 
us at t y 
lower ones shortly kirar in a dear lip. c Mine in Pl. Preiss. i. 099, 
and in DC. Prod. xiv. 318 
w. Australia. Swan river, abend 1st coll., Preiss, n. 786 ; betw der 
Olga ron rivers, Domit: 6th coll. n. 174; Murray cul Pe 
. C. ameenum, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 522, and i x qut p? 
318. An erect or spreading shrub of 1 or 2 ft., the peri a 
florescence usually hoary-pubescent, the foliage glabrous. 
