Conosper mum. | CIV. PROTEACEJE. 875 
. C. triplinervium, R. Br. Prot. Nov. 11. A shrub of 2 to 8 ft., 
the branches erect, glabrous or minutely silky when young. Leaves in 
S 
acuminate. Perianth 2 to 3 lines long, densel Sgen, except the very 
small broad upper Lp: which is pubescent wir or ae pde e 
cg in PI. i. 519, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 316; laniflorum, 
Endl. in Ann. Wien, MEGA: ii. '908, did Nov. Sack Dee. 59; C. undula- 
tum, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 31; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 520, and in 
DC. Prod. xiv. 317. 
tralia. King George's vage: Bazter r, and thence to Swan river, Drum- 
mond, pm Yi n. 577; Preiss, n. 738, 7 MS. an river, Oldfie eld; Salt ad Fitz- 
gerald ri rivers, Maxi bell As mide jon fi "asi lo aves in n ihe specimens distinguished 
under the name of c — ulatum, appears to me to be accidental only, and I can dis- 
= no other n 
ï eissn. tae 1 to 2 in. long, very shortly petiolate and silvery-silky. 
M MM Drummond, 5th coll. n. 401. 
82. e bracteosum, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 518, ii. 248, in DC. 
distant and ver spreading. Bracts ovate, acuté, shorter than the 
; ili Perianth recurved, about 3 lines long, the 
Ds more than half as long as the tube, both 'of them as well as the 
tube ver 33 D Pup with long spreading silky hairs 
mo coll. n. 252; east from Salt river, e Mine: ; also 
Prin n. - 746 | (Metsen) dn die Bref I have no ot seen 
33. C. e ervium, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 817. Stems form- 
ing a hive: Woody base or ‘stock, covered with the imbricate almost dis- 
s remains of old leaves. heave s radical or at the ends of the rr 
branches of the stock, linear or linear-lance olate, 6 in. to a rein k 
long, es silky-pubescent or villous, the margins ; thick and nerve-li e, 
 midri : 
vetns when the leaf is broad enough, or the margins oon 
Rem whole under surface when narrow, contracted into a lo g 
M e dilated and imbricate at the base as in Synap cape fe hec : 
iade , leafless except small ovate acute spreadin ales s ve 
es, bearing at the end a compact corymbose panicle about 6 in. 
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