528 CIV. PROTEACEJE. [Faas 
the middle, or pinnatifid with few narrow or broad prickly-pointed 
lobes, rarely quite entire and linear, from under 
st : : 
veined or veinless, always tapering at the base. Flowers small, 
clusters terminating short leafy branches or sessile in the upper axils, 
the villous rhachis Tarely lline long. Pedicels glabrous, about 2 lines 
long or sometimes longer. Perianth glabrous, not 2 lines long, re- 
curved under the globular limb. Torus small. Ovary shortly stipitate; 
style not long, with a straight stigmatic cone. Fruit $ in n. long, À in. 
c 
. Prod. xiv. 405; H. attenuata and H. ilicifolia, 
Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 183, 184; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 563 
and in DC. Prod. xiv. 406; H. tuberculata, R. Br. Prot. Nov. 28; 
Meissn. ll cc. 561 and 405 ; H. lasiocarpha, R. Br. Prot. Nov. 27; 
Meissn. ll. cc. 561 and 403 (as to Baxter's and Drummond’s specimens); 
H. heterophylla and H. intermedia, Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 437, 445. 
W. Australia. King George's Sound and Lucky Bay, È. enn eastward to 
Cape Paisley, Maxwell ; froti the same districts and J^ ards Swan river, Drummond, 
poe oe 197, 1st coll. n. 615, 617, 4th coll. n. 299, Preiss, n. 593, 600, Oldfield, F. 
The several supposed species here united are distinguished chiefly by the snp 
which is truly protean, and specimens might be selected to represent sev eral types 50 
marked in their ' aspect that I should have retained them as pene bci were it not 
pu other specimens occur combining the different forms of leaves on one stem, if 
he same branch. H. ilicifolia Bas generally rather ande. E hg d iy pit 
the bas 
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or rarely muricate in H. varia pro H.l rpha, Br., unded on a stun ds 
cimen, little more than a bp Saar ri pes ded ply-divided fe leaves, and the scaly 
buds larger than usual, but showing no other ri 
Series 7. TERETIFOLIA.—Leaves linear-terete, entire, rarely a few 
of the lower ones flat. Fruit-valves without any dorsal appendages. 
86. H. sulcata, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 180, Prod. 382, Prot. 
Nov. 27. An erect shrub attaining 5 or 6 ft., but often low, the young 
shoots NM the adult foliage glabrous. , angul 
and furrowed, rigid, mu ucronate, sometimes _pangent- pointe is 
under 2 i in. to above 4 in. long, i sc ier typical for Flowers Pe dicels 
oder 
slabrous, j to 1 line long. Perian ud labrous, varying 1r 
Fines, the tube slender, reflexed nt g the rather large limb. To 
and gland small. Ovary sessile ; style rather long, with a long. tha 
matic cone. Fruit ovoid, about À in. long or rather longer di the 
short narrow-conieal straight, beak. nes oid decurrent along 
