3i eerte a EAT, a d 
DIS ad 
Persoonia. | CIV. PROTEACER, 398 
terminal stigma ; ovules 2.— Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 341 ; P. obcordata, 
A. Cunn. Herb. 
N. S. Wales. de rocky hills north of Bathurst and on the Cujeegong ore: 
4. Cunningham. R. Brown describes tha anthers as silky on the back, which I hav 
not found to be the case in the s I examined. Meissner distinguishes ive 
[2 
es with oval and obovate leaves. "both owe may be observed on 
ens, 
29. P. sericea, A. Cunn.; R. Br. Prot. Nov. 14. An erect shrub re- 
sembling at first sight some forms of P. rigida, but the ——- 
softer ; “branches densely ferruginous-pubescent or villous. Leaves 
obovate oblong or oblanceolate, mucron ate, but otherwise btas, con- 
tracted at the base but scarcely petiolate, ł to 14 in. long, flat, enter 
cent on both sides and in the broader leaved forms dense ely 
hivein ned, Flowers solitary in the axils but a few of the flora Repa 
duc 
T1 
Segments obtuse, without points. Anther-connective not produced be- 
Yond the cells. Ova ary densel firari on a gu stipes; style 
elongated, villous; ovules 2.— in DC. Prod. xiv. 942. 
- Wales. Live erpool plains E nei hu: ranges, A. Cunningham, Leich- 
hoi Wi ar (with th pem nearly " obovate) ; barren country pars west of 
lachla r, A. Cunn ccs ; New Engla nd, C. Stuart ; Clarence river, Beckler (all 
With the oe mostly narrow). 
broad-leaved more s silky form, eon ctituling Moime var. B, or P. velutina, A. 
- MS., appears to be the o that R. Brown had c hiefly in view, the narro w-leaved 
specimens c come very near to P. ‘Mit chellii, and I should have kept up the two at least 
a ditinet varieties, but that some of ie lat r have a few broadly obovate ams on 
len stems, and some broad-leaved an i id dan narrow leaves on the lateral 
hes. Th Specimens are none of pa in very 22M er. 
30. = — ES uc in Hook, Kew Journ. vii. 73, and in 
cca poin , narrowed at the base, 1 Mg 2i in ong, p ent 
E b y length glabrous or nearly so. Pedicels 3 to 4 lines 
$: erect Or reeury axillary or forming terminal or subterminal 
ms by the reduction of the floral leaves to smal ts. Perian 
— 4 to 5 lines lon the segments without points. Anther-con- 
n 
ot produced beyond the cells. Ovary villous, on a glabrous 
‘tipes; style elo oened; 
have ett river bei He risbane river, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller. (1 
NS Seen Mitchells TH s scenes from the interior.) 
Rem New Eug TE Stuart. ^ gt 
not feel ve fide E 1 diatin ished this species from P. 
irs Possibly pi fine of th the in having vod etin ns ‘which I have referred to the 
d belong rather to P. M tchellii, or P. Mitchell itself may be only a €— of 
The s of specimens. is not complete enough to determine these poin 
Pe Prot. Nov. 19. A shrub with rather 
hes arte 5 i siii Leaves a crowded, ingens 
T, Scarcely acute, attenuate at the base, the margins 
