Hakea. | CIV. PROTEACER. 527 
SERIES 6. ExERvEs.—Leaves mostly flat, obscurely penniveined, 
the midrib not prominent, entire prickly-toothed or lobed. Fruit-valves 
with dorsal horns or protuberances. 
83. H. oleifolia, X. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 185, Prod. 385. A 
tall shrub or small tree of 15 to 20 ft., the branches and young shoots 
l a 
tube not 2 lines long, reflexed under the globular limb. Torus small, 
i Ue very shortly stipitate ; 
style not very long, with an erect stigmatie cone. Fruit 3 to 1 in. ong, 
orns near the end, sometimes wanting on one valve. Seed-win shortly 
cecurrent along the upper margin of the nucleus.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. , 
1971, and in DC. Prod. xi Conchium oleifolium, Sm. in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. ix. 124; Hakea ligustrina, Knight, Prot. 108. 
s Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, Drum- 
mond, n. 14, and 5th coll. n. 410, Preiss, n. 554, Oldfield, Maxwell, F. Mueller. 
7 
-—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 562, and in DC. Prod.xiv. 405 ; Bot. 
. 2579. 
deed beaked, the valves with very short dorsal rotuberances near 
e en 
Mag. t 
W. Austr King G 's Sound, R. Brown, Preiss, n. 584, Oldfield ; Cham- 
plon Bay, Bower ; "Ibin Pédipos, Maxwell. —'The leaves are sometimes like those = 
H. linearis, but the species is at once distinguished by the pubescent branches an 
. thachis and by the stigmatic cone. 
| 8. H. varia, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 189, Prod. 383. 
! bushy or scrubby shrub, erect and 6 to 8 ft. high or sometimes spread- 
QE and, diffuse, the branches tomentose and hirsute with spreading 
hairs or nearly glabrous. Leaves silky when young, glabrous when 
; full Brown, lanceolate linear-oblong or remi with 2 or 3 short 
. Prickly lobes at the end or sinuate and prickly-toothed to below 
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