Conospermum. | CIV. PROTEACES. 369 
anth 3 to 4 lines long, the tube slightly hirsute, the lips nearly glabrous, 
longer than the tube. Apex of the nut vey: — and concave.— 
-— in E Preiss. i. 520, pe DC. Prod. xiv. 322. 
alia.: Ring [rose s Sound, R. Brown, i: bib e Preiss, n. 734, 
E “Oldfield, F. Mueller 
j ves sins smaller and more numerous, the lower ones 2 to 3 
in. d including the long petiole. Ses few, mu. less woolly or hg tf aay — 
C. marginatum, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 248, n DC. Prod. xi —W. Aus- 
tralia, Drum mond, 2nd coll. n. 306 ; p Ae ver, 
.. Var. spathulatum. e numerous uid smaller, gress ea 
peax under 1 in. including the short petiole. Spikes woolly as in the typical form 
en King George’s Sound and Swan river, Harvey. 
13. E mE Kipp.; Meissn. in Hook. Kem Journ. vii. 70, and in se 
Prod. xiv. 322. Stems slender, decumbent or vasis umbent, 1 ft. lon 
. more, Bron us as well as the foliage. Lower leaves on m p s 
linear or linear-lanc Sage those along the stems not numerous, narrow: 
ear and sessile, 1 to 2 ong. Panicle terminal, loose, bui slightly 
branched, with short pilas and flowers similar to those of C. ezruleum 
or rather sm ller 
W. Australia. "Gilbert, n. 164, Drummond. Possibly an extreme form of C. 
eeruleum, 
With a callous point and thicke ne gi cape 
flowering stems simple or slightly branched, } to 1} ft. high, with a 
all nearly globular hirsute spike terminating eac ; 
. Tith hirsute with rather ns hairs, about 2j lines long, the und 
w, Mode. Ps fona river ida King George's Sound, Drummond. 
elii, R. Br. in Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 58. An under- 
, acumin s ase 
pin as the rhachis, can MR about 34 lines € the limb 
RI 5 shorter than the tube.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 921, and in 
| e t rod. xiv. 893, 
x Swan river, Huegel, Rec 1st coll. n. 584, Preiss, n. 735. 
I M Serna Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 99. An under 
wth bon ranch idem leafy at the base, the a ata and foliage hina 
* d fine spreading hairs. Leaves densely crowded " the lower 
