Petrophila. | CIV. PROTEACEJE. — 335 
segments falling off separately. Style-end continuous, fusiform, with 
few short hairs, glabrous and 4-angled at the base. Nut not seen ripe, 
the youn ones S densely comose.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 497, and in 
DC. ji Pu 271. 
W. Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining ens R. Brown, A. Cun- 
Min. Danona lst coll., Preiss, n. 645, 648, 649, and other: 
33. P. multisecta, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 242. A x branched 
bushy shrub, glabrous except the cones and somewhat glaucous, closely 
om to and perhaps a variety of P. rigida. Leaves oo 
powentporned, not so short as in some varieties of P. rigida, but quite 
b " 
ng, 1t 
in. long and about 4 in. diameter without iere nb pe sessile in the 
ling off separ rni TD con- 
s. fusiform, shortly pubescent. Nut itae uT comose on 
the margins, more sparingly hirsute on b fac 
S. Australia. Kangaroo Island, Waterhouse. 
94. P. conifera s Meissn. m Journ. vii. 67, and in DC. Prod. 
Xv.271. A muc = “branched wy Pa of 1 to 3 or 4 ft. the kd PA ode 
5 4 D F 
ments divaricate, sacha nile ue un ngent pointed, $ 1 to ji in. long. Cones 
about 1 in length and 4 lines diameter without the perianths. 
Outer bracts very deci s. Cone-scales softly tomentose, at 
minate, but the points deciduous and in the old cones the scales very 
broad, about 3 lines diameter, hard, tomentose, few n4 Aat 0: 
siform, hirsute with few shor petes Nat ovate, almost acuminate, 
Comose over, but more densely so on the margins and back than on 
r mee, 
` Australia. Murchi Oldfield, Drummond, 6th coll. n. The 
mee is very nt aliad to Prida but with tomentose branches ak ‘longer 
ies 6. HreBEGYNE.— Habit t and characters of Petrophile except 
at the style has not a distinct fusiform end. 
35. P. se semifurcata, F. Muell. em " bushy shrub with the habit 
i Eie branches of P. con eaves labrous, rigid, terete, 
5 or s short se ents, 
r shortly pointed but not Cones terminal or in 
acia. shortly mt pane Shea cy lide 1 to 
