508 CIV. PROTEACEJE. | Hakea, 
aud if the fragments of flowers above mentioned really belong to the specimens, à is 
possible that some of the flowering specimens referred ‘ampliniana may belong 
rather to H. vittata. The fruits of the two as far as known are very different. 
- 96. H. rostrata, F. Muell. ; Meissn. in Linnea xxvi. 259, and » 
DC. Prod. xiv. 896. An erect shrub of several feet, glabrous excep 
the inflorescence. Leaves terete, smooth, rigid, mucronate, 14 to 4 in. 
Victoria. Grampians, Mitchell; Mount Sturgeon, Robertson ; Glenelg river and 
Monnt Abrupt, F. Mueller. à Pare 
, S. Aus rali Lofty range and Kangaroo Island, F. Mueller ; St. Vincent's Gulf, 
Blandowski. 
| : ll, in axil- 
ungent-pointed, $ to 1} or rarely 2 in. long. owers small, i 
iy clusters. Pedicels silky-pubescent, short. Perianth silky-pubes 
cent, the tube about 2 lines ong, recurved un e ll 
3 iver, 
Victoria. Macalister river, towards its source, F. Mueller; Glenelg river, 
Robertson. : F. Mueller; 
- Australia. Port Lincoln, R. Brown ; Murray river, Lofty range, £P. 
Bethanie, Oswald ; Kangaroo Island, Waterhouse. lin ale 
e on the stigmatic disk of this species and of H. rostrata, ii but 
degree on that of H. pugioniformis, connects them with the section ye dd rather in 
jet da flowers and general affinity with H. epiglottis place the 
uU ea. 
Rip AARE 
_ shrub 
38. H. epiglottis, Zabil. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 30, t. 40. A cnt 
attaining 7 or 8 ft., glabrous except the inflorescence an onate, 14 
pubescent young shoots. Leaves terete, smooth, rigid, mucrone n 
to 3in. lone. Flowers small, in axillary clusters. Perianth ‘straight. 
cent, the tube near 2 lines long, recurved under the limb. ks ine T 
Gland semiannular. Ovary shortly stipitate; style not very ^o S ruit 7 
 matie disk oblique, without the prominent cone of H. peers at 
the base, ineurved above the middle, with a short conical ineurve Prod. 
Seed-wing not decurrent.—R. Br. in Trans. Linn. eo pehi 
382 ; Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 395 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. 1. 324; 
