Conospermum. | CIV. PROTEACEJ. 367 
numerous, linear-terete, mostly acute but not pungent, to 4 in. or 
rarely 3 in. lon lowers in axillary spikes, usually few in the spike 
but the spikes crowded in the upper part of the branches and often 
exceeding the leaves, the rhachis and ae minutely or densely pu- 
bescent. Bracts s broad, sheathing, coloured, more than half as long as 
the perianth-tube. Perianth 3 to 84 lines long, retaining the 
D when dry, nea rly glabrous or hoary-tomentose but never eat 
n C. distichum and its allies, Peg concave upper i p E: A. as the 
iw lobes of the lower lip.— X s lescens, dU. 
W. Australia. King George's ence rd Kalgan river ve 0 ooginup, Old. 
7 n river, Drummond, Ist coll. n. 583, Preiss, n. 745; Salt river xn Cape 
0b, Maxwell. 
.7. C. nervosum, Meissn. in Hook. Kem Journ. vii. 71, and in DC. Prod, 
xiv. 921. Stems leafy, simple at the base, paniculately branched in 
i eaves o 
tube, shortly ciliate and sparing ely di cent as well as the rhachis. 
Perianth about 34 lines long, the te eod pubescent, the limb as 
as the tube the upper segment or lip concave with recurved 
margins, the lower about as long and pps 3-lobed. 
Austr Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th coll. 
sna The two varieties esate in the Prodromus may both be found on one spe- 
8. C. diffusum, Benth. A much- prs E or diffuse 
shrub, glabrous or the branches minutely hoary-tomentose. Leaves 
linear ; terete, erooved above, obtuse or w er a sind recurved point, 
u 0 
r axil 
than the leaves, Bracts glabrous = min e: ciliate, e broadl 
sheathing, shortly acuminate. Perianth blue, d 3 lin 
brous, the limb as long as the tube, ad upper segment or is concave 
ip tu margins and the lower lip vibe r alor 3-1 as in 
w.. re Drummond. 
9. C. glumac » Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 30,- A shrub or under- 
shrub of 3 or 4 ft. pride glabrous. Leaves crowded, linear or linear- 
ceolate, acute or with a callous point, with nerve-like margins, } 
inatin 
5 branchlets, slender, simple or branched, 4 in. to above 1 ft. lon ng, form- 
= a large leafy panicle. Spikes terminating the peduncles or re 
S 
the thin ooloured broadly lanceolate acute bracts, 3 to 5 
