516 CIV. PROTEACEJE. [ Hakea. 
both rc and round the base of the nucleus.—Meissn. in DC. 
Prod. xiv. 402. 
S. A Palais + Lincoln, R. Brown, Wilhelmi; the former specimens in fruit 
only, the latter in flower with i détached fruits. 
. 55. H. microcarpa, R. n Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 182, Prod. 383. 
A shrub varying from 2 or 3 fh do! twice that height, quite glabrous or 
with a very minute pubescence on the. young brasolil and foliage. 
Leaves mostly terete and smooth, slender or thick, from 1 in. in some 
semian 
somewhat oblique igiliatic e disk. pn t i to nearly 3 3 in. long, about 
i broad, oblique, smooth or slightly rud the valves with short 
al horns near the end sometimes ayes 
almost Biete Meisen. : in DC. Prod. xiv. T 
i. $24; Bot. Reg. t. 475; Lodd. Bot. Cab 210; y^ patila, R. Bt 
Prot. Nov. 27; Meissn. l.c. 401; H. bifrons, p l.c. 400. 
.N. S. Wales. Macquarie river, A. Cunningham ; near Bathurst, Fraser; Ber 
rima, Woolls ; New England, C. Stuart ; lates river, Beckler 
Victoria. Elephant plains, Robertson, F. Mueller ; Ovens, King and Upper Genoa 
rivers, — Tii the Australian Alps to 5000 or 6000 0 ft., F. Mueller ks of 
Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, arses n; common especially on n gravelly » 
rivers, acere to 3000 ft., kw D. Hoo 
The flat or channelled leaves v very r T specimens, are common in many 
of the N.S. Wales and Victoria Ad Stig ci ATT t5 the exclusion of the age 
leaves. It is probable hiret. ‘tha t H. Mitchellii, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xi v. 398, 
which I have seen no authentic specimen, should be included in H. microcarpa. 
6. H. recurva, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 394. A very stout TIE! : 
shrub, the branches and foliage glabrous. Leaves terete, smooth, vor 
"wena and rigid, pungent-pointed, very spreading or recurved, 9 oF 
in. lowers numerous in sessile axillary clusters of a 
oen, with a villous rhachis of 1 to 2 lines. Pedicels glabrom ines 
form, 4 or 5 lines long. Perianth glabrous, the tube abou ia 
long, slightly dilated ER the middle, much revolute oprani ii to 
straight. Gland very prominent, semic scale Ovary contrat os 
a very short stipes; style not very long, with an oblique PA 
stigmatic disk. í 
ordha Aastealis, Drummond, 4th coll. s. 289, Gth coll, n. 160; Murchit? uc 
nla, eissn. in Hook, Kew Journ iy 114 wee 
209. A” bushy shrub, the young branche e 
Leaves terete, smooth, rigid, Sie thick, pungent-pointed, : quo : 
1 in. long, rarely contracted at the base, at first pube smi Se | 
