419 CIV. PROTEACEJE. [ Orites. 
- O. MM. F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 
line below the short concave laminæ. Ovar ry v villous. Fruit about 2 in. 
on ed with a broad oblique terminal win 
gs ctoria. Rocky summits of the Australian Alps at an | éleit of 5000 to 6000 
ft., F. Mueller. Meissner, in DC. Prod. xiv. 423, reduces this plant to a variety of 
O. excelsa, , but the stal entire Raves the inflorescence, the Ee ovary, and other 
characters, appear to me to be nt. 
» R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 190, Prod. 388. 
very deciduous. Pa rianth abont 24 lines long. Filaments narrow an i 
short. Ovary ey villous. Follicle 3 to $ in. long, prs sch 
dw 
joo 
ount ipt: En Brown ; abundant on all the mountain ranges . 
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above 3000 fe elevation, J. D. Hi 
ER t. Nov. 32. A bushy shrub of 4 or 5 fi 
lovis eg p. 
w groove 
eu siae es mucronate-acute an os ten pangent, e 
slender petiole, rigid and smooth, 4 in. long. t 
usually shorter than the leaves, he rhachis ferruginous pube 
Perianth glabrous, scarcely 2 lines long, not so slender as in 0. re ih a 
the segments more tardily revolute aki the laminz more concave 
in that species. Filaments very short and broad, inserted imme 
below the lamin. ny villous. Follicle about 4 in. long, thet 
nearly so. Seed flat, surrounded by a narrow wing " 
broader at the Niger a T like th that of many Greville. —Meissn 95; 
Prod. aiv. 40 Tasm. i. 396; A. Rich. Sert Mero. i. 25 
Oritina acicularis, T Ee in [Sum Linn. Soc. x. 994. 
a 
E 
Es 
B at an 
Mount 00 feed D R. Brown; abundant n all the o ee 
elevation LE 3000 to to 4000 D. Ho oke er. ln its seeds uer aee of 
Orites. ri iilis fr the ia, cies of Ori tes as Grevillea does from Hakea, nyed 
Bows in te M de pan E with 0, revoluta that botanists have all oll 
Brown in eie e genus he had at first proposed for i 
