854 CIV. PROTEACEJE. [ Adenanthos. 
to 9 lines long, silky-pubescent. Anthers all perfect. Style-end 
ken 4 
8 
aaaeei: thickene 
ustralia. Point Malcolm, Maxwell. 
8. A. linearis, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 311. Apparently procum- 
bent, with slender branching stems of above 1 ft., the young shoots — 
silky -pubescent and hirsute with long fine hairs, the older foliage gla- | 
brous. Leaves entire narrow-linear, obtuse, attenuate at the base, — 
s thick but flat, 1 to 14 in. long. Involucres solitary or 2 or 3 to- — 
ther at the ends of the branches, on peduncles of about 1 line; inner — 
bracts nearly 2 lines long. Perianth 6 to 7 lines long, softly hairy. — 
Anthers all perfect. Sty le sparingly bearded, the end narrow-oblong. 
- W. Australia, Drummond, Ath coll. n. 265. 
9. A. 29. . A tall shrub or a 
small tree of 10 to 20 fe 7 the moho and foe softly silky-pubes- — 
cent or villous with soft Solin, or longer or ily eading Ese e 
i e 
volucres terminal, solitary or rarely 2 or 3 t ether, > almos 
by the foliage, on peduncles of about 1 line, the bracts anya 
the inner ones 2 lines long. Perianth above 1 in. long, $ 
slender, the laminz densely bearded inside behi 
are ie perfect. Style glabrous, the end slightly M sentio —R. bret 
T Linn. Soe. x. 152, rod. 367; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. ber * 
248, dad in DC. Prod. xiv. 319; A. apiculata, Meiain, in Pl. 
514, and in DC. l.c. 318, not of R. Br. " 4 
W. Australia. King Geo n ricts, es 
Brown, and many E iid and hale abr de e nda be s nd, 1s t coll ard 
coll. n. 256, Preiss, n. 787, 788, and others, and eastward to Cap ed 
The — of Drummond’s and Preiss’s referred by ‘odes to A. 
appear to me to be undistinguishable from the common A. sericea, © cept peret: : 
the rather more rigid foliage with more spreadin i ven this [wr 
very in ave not seen in any of them the truly lateral gla 
- m as in the true A. apiculata, Br. (A. procumbens, oiish) : 
Var. evifolia. Leaves Pyme —À en ee -villous and the perianth-lamin® 
Daey bearded inside as in the typical 4. barbata, F. Muell. He rb. 
I ustr: Kangaroo bes. F.M die. Waterhouse T 
KT following species may perhaps hereafter prove to > be varieties only of * 
nolle A eaman, Lehm. Pi. Preiss. i, 612,41. 048. A Pa ae : 
reading shrub of 3 or 4 ft. , the PE poer * 
