396 CIV. PROTEACEJE. [Persoonia, —— 
glabrous or nearly so. — esset or oblong-lanceolate, mucro- 
14 to 
nate-acute, much contracted into a short petiole, “mostly 4 to 21 in. | 
long, flat, the midrib slightly cotum the margins scarcely nerve- | 
n , otherwise veinless. —Pedicels — short, solitary or 2 | 
ther, pubescent, rarely 1 line long. Perianth about 5 lines long, 
bs. escent with very short appressed hairs, the segments without ter- 
minal points. nther-connective not produced beyond the cells. 
sey glabrous, ied into a short stipes; style elongated; ovules 
zd Bre d ns. Linn. Soc. x. 5 Prod. 373; Meissn. in 
Prod. xiv. 340; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 25; P. ligustrina, Knight, Prot. 
T E Seu Sieb. in Roem. and Schult. Syst. iii. Mant. 271. 
es. Fon Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 47 and 57, and many others: 
New | bg C. Stua 
XD ? levis. e s pet glabrous. Leaves rather longer and thinner, broad 
arrow.  Pedicels not gue to short.—Clarence and Macleay rivers, Beckler; Port 
yepi ? (from van sp J 
the above variety may probably be referred Linkia levis, Cav. Ic. 
(very badly figured = - seribed), Ë. la tifolia, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 280, i eris de 
ee: Bot. Cab. t P. attenuata, R. Br. Prot. Nov. 16, Meissn. in DC. P. 
2, from Moreton Bay, dip aser, is described from edad: in fruit only, and may 
bs. det a variety of f Pm a or this variety of P. lanceolata which connects jn some 
the hairiness of 
veral allied 
measure the two LÀ RE as rio foliage.and length of pedicels, neglect ing 
the ovary in P. m e exact- discrimination of P. lanceolata and seve 
species is often Very difficult 
8. P. confertiflora, Benth. An erect shrub of 1 to 9 t x 
branches and inflorescence slightly fe SEPAD -pubescent, 0 
Sesto a tt Leaves broadly lanceolate or ovate- d e p m- 
t i d 
Perianth about 5 lines | villous with appresse 
es long, villous y xi Anther- connec- 
toria. Sc sae declisities of the Stringy- -bark cases towards Gipp Dos 
Mitta-Mitta and Genoa Je AN r. '[hese specimens ble at 
ueller and Gaus ©. Brod. xiv. 343) to P. ferruginea, W s hich pe remi Es 
first sight, but the ovary is s perfectly glabrous, and the affinity appears to meto 
uus with P. lance 
tal 
, luci R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 101, Prod. 972. n 
Peat or small tree of 12 to 16 ft. with a lamellose bark, the 
branches 2: or shortly pubescent, the foliage labrous.. - 
linear-lanceolate ostly acute, shortly contracted at the base, # 
ve flat or cer n recurve margins, rather thin, baciti nar | 
ess pee 
veined. Pe ee 1 to 2 lines long, more slender - = e of de 
