f 
ovoid, oblique, 4 to 5 lines long.—Meissn. in D 
Srila, . le 
388 CIV. PROTEACEJ. . [Persoonia, — 
14. P. acicularis, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 990. A rigid shrub of about 
1 ft. (Oldfield), the branches shortly vibe bs foliage glabrous or 
sprinkled with a few short rigid hairs. Leaves crow ed, spreading, 
linear-subulate, rigid and pungent-pointed, doubly 7 grooved as in P. 
sulcata, but rarely exceeding } in. in length Podeis ‘axillary, solitary, 
glabrous, 3 to 4 lines long. 5 Perianth fully 5 lines long, quite glabrous, 
contracted above the broad base, the segments ver acute. ers 
with the merasa produced into very short thick and obtuse appen- 
dips. ary glabrous, contracted into a short stipes and tapering into 
an elongated straight style. 
w. stralia. Sandy plains, T ced Oldfield. In the only ovary I 
me mt Wem found one ne ovule, but In erlooked a second abortive one, and 
the specimens were too o sacrifice more Eeh. 
16. P: nit A Meissn. in Hook. Kew Journ. vii. 79, and in DC. Prod. 
xiv. 933. A rigid shrub with erect branches minutely pubescent when 
young. Leaves crowded, incurved, linear-terete, thick and rigid, deeply 
grooved Minierat but without t any prominent midrib, obtuse 0 
ointed, glabrous or minutely scabrous when young oli 
owers solitary in the axils and sessile. Perianth about é lines long, 
villous with appressed hairs, contentus at the base. Anthers wit. 
o the con Y a slender stipes, den 
t an 
small globular tips t ect 
and glabrous ; style folded Misnedistely above the ovary, then erec 
filiform with a terminal sti tigma 
W. Australia. Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th coll. n. 177. 
o Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 999. .À bushy 
to the connective. Ovar shortly (RS gu taperi 
long style with a porn stigma; ovules Drupe broad id "wl 
oblique, 4 to 5 lines diameter 
W. Australia, Drummond, 5th coll. n. 403; Fitzgerald river, Macwell. 
.17. P. striata, R. Br. Prot. Nov.13. Quite glabrous or the branche 
silky-pubescent. Leaves linear, obtuse or mucro te-acute, € I 1 
into a short petiole, flat but thick, striate with 3 to 6 promi c " 
approximate longitudinal nerves, glabrous or minutely papillose, 17 a 
in. lo da axils, 9 to 3 lines long. Pert 
Anthers with the — 
glabrous or slightly pubescent, 4 to 5 lines ; 
connective p pence t into an appendage usually rather long but vii 
vai patoi slightly contracted into the stipes, tapering Drupe 
straight filiform rm style with a terminal stigma. Ovule solitary- 992; P 
C. Prod. xiv. =% 
mond, 5th 
stralia. Kin ng George's Sound or to the eastward, Baxter, p 
cR edet n. 6; near W. Mount Barren, Maxwell. 
