504 CIV. PROTEACEJE, | Hakea, 
WV. Australia. Sandy plains, Murchison river, Oldfield. 
Var. filiformis, F. Muell. Leaves narrower, more often divided, sometimes. terete, 
less distinctly and sometimes not at all grooved.—W. Australia, Drummond, in fruit 
only, but probably the same species. 
. H. Candolleana, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 262, and in DC. Prod. 
xiv. 997. Branches virgate, pubescent when young, the foliage glabrous. 
Leaves some and sometimes nearly all narrow-linear, obtuse or with a 
callous point, tapering into a short petiole, thick but flat with very 
obtuse thickened margins, the midrib more or less prominent under- 
neath; others or sometimes nearly all terete or slightly flattened and 
nerveless, mostly 1 to 2 in. long. Flowers few, in sessile axillary 
clusters. Pedicels villous, about 1 line long. Perianth villous with 
spreading hairs, 1} to near 2 lines long but very much revolute with 
e upper segments short. Torus straight. Gland prominent, semi- 
an Ovary contracted into a very short stipes; style not long, 
j ic di Fruit to 14 in. long, 7 to 
nes broad, incurved, nearly smooth, with a short conical inflexed beak. 
Seed-wing decurrent on both margins of the nucleus.—H. falcata, var. 
Meissn. in Pl. Preiss, i. 572. 
Ww. A ia, Drummond, n. 99, 1st coll. n. 605, 2nd coll. n. 331 ; Canning river, 
Preiss, n. 603; Hampden, Clarke. 
Var. campylorrhyncha, V. Muell. Leaves nearly all flat and 14 lines broad. —Mur- 
chison river, Oldfield. i 
Australian H. flexilis, R. Br., to which Meissner refers some of Drummond's 
eio, is a very different plant in flowers and fruit, although somewhat similar in 
oliage. 
27. H. trifurcata, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 183, Prod. Lei | 
A much-branched shrub, attaining 8 or 10 ft., the young shoots s i 
nh the adult foliage glabrous. Leaves mostly terete, pic 
id. divided eu 
g 
or undivided, acute and usually pungent-pointed, smooth or pod 
grooved, the whole leaf 13 to 3 in. long; mixed with these are gei 
a few flat oval oblong obtuse or sometimes lanceolate and acute en 
leaves 2 to 11 in. long. 
clusters. Pedic 
hirsute, the tube straig 
Prod. xiv. 404 ; 
H. mixta and H, trieruris, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 35. 
