— Hakea.] CIV. PROTEACER, 511 
. 43. H. linearis, R. Br. in Trans, Linn. Soc. x. 183, Prod. 384. An 
erect bushy bright green glabrous shrub. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceo- 
late, pungent-pointed, entire or bordered by a few small prickly teeth, 
lto 13 or rarely 2 in. long, thick and rigid, veinless except the scarcely 
wing shortly decurrent on the upper margin only of the nucleus.— 
Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 562, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 405; Sweet. Fl. 
Austral. t. 43; Bot. Reg. t. 1489. 
W. Australia. King George's Sound, A. Brown, Fraser, Milne, Maxwell, 
Drummond, 2nd coll. n. 335; Canning river, Oldfield. 1 
-? H. stenocarpoides, F. Muell. Herb. Apparently tall and 
qute glabrous. Leaves oblong-cuneate, obtuse, tapering to the base, 
entire, 9 to 4 in. lon 
Sometimes of a few very oblique veins. Flowersabout 6 or 8 together, 
45. H. ruscifolia, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 90, t. 39. An erect 
bushy shrub of 6 to 8 ft., the branches and young shoots hirsute with 
long fine s reading hairs, intermingled with a fulvous tomentum. 
Vés on ong petioles when small, the larger ones TOM neue, 
ch ts terminating short leafy branches. Pedicels glabrous, filiform, 
to 4 lines long.  Periaduh abrod: the tube about 14 lines long, re- 
fered under the limb. Torus small. Gland prominent, semiannular 
O7 nearly sessile; style short, the stigmatic disk broad, slightly 
p Yer Frit 4 to 3 in, long, in. broad, scarcely beaked. Seed-wing 
| "eurrent only on the upper margin of the nucleus.—R. Br. in Trans. 
