Persoonia. | CIV. PROTEACER, 391 
abortion or reduction of the floralleaves. Flowers usually larger than 
in that species, the perianth fully 4 in. long. Anthers and pistil the 
same, but the articulation of the stipes of the ovary rather more pro- 
minent, being often above the level of the hypogynous glands.—Meissn. 
in DC. Prod. xiv. 342. 
W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown, Baxter, Harvey, Drummond, 
n. 88, 96, Oldfield, F. Mueller ; Vasse river, Oldfield. . 
?4. P. elliptica, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 164, Prod. 873. A 
shrub or tree of 10 to 20 ft., quite glabrous. Leaves from broadly 
obovate to elliptical or broadly T obtuse with a callous point 
or almost acute when narrow, contraeted into a short petiole, not t ick, 
pred with oblique anastomosing veins, 1j to near long. 
edicels 1 to 2 lines long, mostly axillary and solitary but sometimes 
uv, 341; Hook. Ic. Pl. 
W. Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, Baxter, 
A. Cunningham, and maid sid and thence to as river, Drummond, 1st coll., 4th 
coll. n. 211, Preiss, n. 726, arke. i 
, The articulation of the stipes, so conspicuous in the three preceding Western species, 
1s also observable in most of the following Eastern species, but itis much less marked 
and usually at the very base of the stipes, not forming a ring above the base. 
25. P. ferruginea, Sm. Exot. Bot. i. 47, t. 83. A tall shrub, the 
branches and young shoots slightly ferruginous or hoary-tomentose, the 
adult foliage glabrous. Leaves ovate oblong-elliptical or almost lan- 
ceolate, acute or obtuse with a callous point, contracted at the and 
Sometimes shortly petiolate, 2 to 3 or rar n. long, the midrib pro- 
ent underneath and obscurely or distinctly penniveined. wers 
either solitary in the axils or more frequently in dense clusters of 4 to 
d the cells. Ovary densely 
parcely any, Perianth densely ferruginous-pubescent, about 6 lines 
duced : 
longated, with a terminal 
MA i x P : . 
lm in DC. Prod. xiv. 343 (except as to F. Mueller's specimens) ; 
- laurina, Pers, Syn. i. 118. 4 us 
*S. Wales. Port Jack d Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 58, 
is "ningham and sig: The Vietorian plant referred here by Meissner =r d em 
fet ito glabrous, is much nearer to P. lanceolata, and is described below as P. con- 
a. 
26. P. media R. Br. Prot. Nov. 16. A tall erect shrub, the youn 
branches ferruginous-pubescent, Leaves lanceolate or almost ellintical, 
