Hakea, | CIV. PROTEACEX, 515 
Var. liss sosperma. Leaves usually more rigid and stonter, sometimes 3 to 4 in. long, 
but sometimes like those of the typical form. Perianth about 3 lines long. Fruit 
d le 
* rod. 
erma, Hook. £. Fl. Tasm. i. 325; H. brachyrrhyncha, F. M don First Gen. Rep. 
ae oria. Wilson's Promontory, Macalister river, and d near Stieglitz, F. 
Tasmania. Derwent river, R. Brow Cape Barren and Flinders Islands, Bass's 
Sits, Gunn, Milligan ; common in dabalitas stations odi 2000 to 4000 ft. elevation, 
953. H. 1 
À shrub with rather slender dA bete nutely hoar oary- -pubes- 
cent. Leaves terete, smooth, mucronate with ine vow ht rigid points, 
more or less attenuate at the base, 1} to 3 in. long. Flowers d in 
ting 
short leafy branches, the peduncle and rhachis minutely sky bee 
in, di icels ib 2 to 21 lines lon erianth 
glabrous, the tube about 24 lin ies slightly dilated below the 
middle, revolute under the limb. Torus slightly oblique, Gland 
 "mmmnnular Ovary stipitate ; style no t lo ong, with a very oblique 
- tlmost lateral stigmatic disk. Fruit P about 1 in. long, 4 to 2 in. broad, 
“Hen somewhat verrucose, with a short conical beak, the valves without 
2 or with scarcely prominent dorsal rotuberances at the end, Seed- 
‘ing usually more o deris decurrent along the auper some only of 
the nucleus.— Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 396 ; F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 
<1) (but not all the orient adduced) ; H. leis veel Dietr. Syn. 
P. i. 581 (by a es ; H. virgata R. Br. du Nov. 26; Meissn. 
à Dc as xiv. 395; H. tephrosperma, R. Br, ; Meissn. ‘Le. 402 ; 
s, Hook, in Mitch, Trop. Austr. abe lc. 895; H. 
tte P. Muell., Meissn. in dye xxvi. 900. and l.c. 400. 
nsland. ra adilla, Bar 5 : 
-> Lachlan river, 4. Cunni ham, 
y Du EE s Tachan and Darling rivers to the Gate 
" orton, 
Td ot [esters Gulf, B. Brown; Cooper's Creek, Murray. 
n some specimens of Fraser's the fruit appears much narrower, but is evidently not 
ripe, 
— 9 H. Linn. Soc. x. 182, Prod. 383. 
Td cycloptera, R. Br. in Trans. s terete, smooth, rigid, pun- 
ous. ves 
E to 5 in. lon owers 
Pointed, not contracted at the base, 3 to labrous. Pedicels 
m 
ps 
"v 
Nite under the limb. Dee straight. Gland small. 
ad, rugose E. the valves 
Sl Meets P broad, PU along 
wa 7,12 in. long dd abov 
D dorsa] mem. near the vin Seed-wing 
