304 CIV, PROTEACEJE, [ Persoonia. 
N. S. Wales. In the interior, Fraser; Robinson Ranges and Dogwood Creek, 
Leichhardt. Resembles sometimes P. curvifolia, but with smaller flowers and hirsute 
ovaries. 
39. P. hirsuta, Pers. Syn. i. 118. A spreading shrub of 2 or 3 ft., 
the whole plant pubescent or hirsute, or the foliage at length scabrous 
only or rarely nearly glabrous. Leaves sessile, broadly linear: ence 
densely hirsute with spreading hairs, about 5 lines lon Anther-con- 
nective not produced beyond the cells. Ovary densely hirsute 
glabrous stipes; style elongated; ovule solitary up ud 
ellipsoid, 4 to 3 in. long.—R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 161, Proc 
R : : . i 
372, Prot. Nov. 13; Rudge in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 991, t. 16; Meissn. 
Cab. t. 3 
N: S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. B 
and many others. However variable the leaves may be in 
; i 5, 
n. 56, but rather scabrous than hirsute. In A. Cunningham's P. aspera, from x 
Hunter's and Richmond rivers, they are very scabrous, short, and rather broad; 
Brown’s typical specimens they are narrow and very hispid. 
scabrous, mostly about } in. long. Flowers very shortly pe 
solitary within each floral leaf but crowded into short 
at or below the ends of the branches, with reduced floral leaves. 
to 5 lines long, glabrous or sprinkled with a few epe nsely 
Anther-connective not sitis be Ovary © 
Prot. Nov. 13; Meissn. in . Prod. xiv. 835; P. gnidi 
reg: Syst. Cur. Post. 45, and in Roem. and Schult. Syst. I1 
N.S. Wales. Blue Mountains, A. Cunningham, Sieber, n. 53. 
94. P. arborea, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 37, vi. 921. ent 
LI LJ , . LI , > 
30 ft., the branches and sometimes the young shoots hoary Pte 
m ferruginc s. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or Sci iP under- 
contracted into a petiole, glabrous above, minutely paben 
