370 CIV. PROTEACEJE. [ Conospermum. 
part of the stem, filiform, 1 to 2 in. long. Peduncles leafless, erect, 
‘above 1 ft. long, simple with a maple terminal spike or bearing a com- 
: ong hairs. Periant 
about 5 lines long, the tube shortly and sparingly hirsute, the limb 
glabrous, shorter than the tube, the very broad concave upper lip 
shorter than the narrow lobes of the lower lip.—Meissn. in. Pl. Preiss. 
i. 591, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 924. 
W. Austral n river, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 582, Preiss, n. 2301, b. (I 
have only seen Drummond's specimens.) 
17. C. Brownii, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss, ii. 248, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 
994. Flowering stems apparently simple, leafy in the lower part, gla- 
brous and glaucous as well as the foliage. Leaves lanceolate cuneate 
or obovate-oblong, almost acute, 1j to 2 in. long, contracted into à 
short petiole dilated at the base, rigid, 9-nerved. Peduncle terminal, 
6 in. to 1 ft. long, leafless and simple except at the top, where it bears 
P 
a rt co 
glabrous. Bracts short, broad, obtuse, of a deep blue, th 
imbricate. Perianth glabrous, the tube fully 4 lines long, the upper 
p broad, concave, about 1 line long, the lower one rather longer and 
3-lobed. 
W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd coll. n. 204. 
18. C. longifolium, Sm. Exot. Bot. ii. 45, t. 82. A shrub or under- 
shrub, glabrous except the inflorescence or the branches tomentose. 
ng an narrowed into a long petiole, veined an : 
margins, Peduncles terminal or terminating short branchlets in the 
1 : 
e 
as long as the limb, the upper lip short broad and concave, the wae 
somewhat longer with dy I ag a 
x. 154, Prod. 369; Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 991; €. Smithi, Pers. 
Syn. i. 116. 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 41, and others. 
Var. angustifolium, R. Br. Prot. Nov. 10. Leaves all narrow-linear, the p ht very 
not usually so long as in the typical form, but the two forms, though at first s not 
istinct, are connected by numerous intermediates —C. tenuifolium, Sieb. Pl. pen A] 
of R. Br. ; C. commutatum, Roem. and Schult. Syst. iii. Mant. 275.—Port Jackson, ^^ — | 
DO cnbccloen, Grek. in Ed 1, Mess. in DC. Prod — 
. acinacifoli i i "O ja 
, ifolium, Grah. in Edinb. Philos. Journ. 1826, oe d description give™ : 
xiv. 320, raised from Fraser's seeds, would appear from the d ai 
to be the same narrow-leaved variety of C. longifolium., 3 
19. C. tenuifolium, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc, x. 154, riage 1 
Stems from a woody base procumbent ascending or erect, id ot 
1 ft. long, usually glabrous. Leaves numerous, very narrow 
