Hahea.] CIV. PROTEACE E. 517 
shorter. Torus small. and semiannular, not 
Ovary contracted into a thick stipes; style rather long, with a broa 
out $ in. long, 4 in. broad, very 
rugose or nearly smooth, very shortly beaked, the valves with short or 
W. Australia, Drummond, 4th coll. n. 290, 6th coll. n. 192; Murchison river, 
Oldfield. 
98. H. commutata, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 26. Glabrous in every 
even the youn ts and rhachis of the inflorescence. Leaves 
segments s orus straight. Glan sm Ovary almost sessile ; 
style rather long, slightly thickened under the very oblique almost 
pP : 5 
the nucleus.— H. nodosa, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 555, and in DC. Prod. 
. Xv. 997 as to the western specimens, not of R. Br. 
E OW. Australia, Drummond, 5th coll. n. 412 (in flower), n. 41, and 5th coll. suppl. 
.. * 13 (in fruit). 
99. H. strumosa, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 402. A shrub of 2 a 
Ó ft, quite glabrous even the inflorescence. Leaves ee apy 
n LJ . 
carcel : 
owers in sessile axillary clusters. Pedicels 2 to 3 lines long. Peri- 
* ) 
"very small lateral beak often almost obsolete. Seed-wing very 
. broa y decurrent along both margins round the base of the nucleus. 
| sBzcT. 8. Con à 
. Weile clusters, rarely elongated, enclosed before their development in 
"1 involucre or bud of imb erianth : 
. revolute under the limb. Stigmatic cone erect or searcely oblique 
- ei], * Mowers are difficult to distinguish from those of the section Comogyne of Gre- 
E: lea, but the inflorescence and fruits are those of Hakea. 
