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except, from New Caledonia, but may perhaps yet be found in New 
Guinea. 
Of the genus Hakea ten species are known to occur in our 
colony out of about one hundred distributed over all Australia, 
none as yet having been noted beyond. Adduced as an example: 
Hakea rostrata (the beak-fruited Hakea).—Leaves threadlike- 
cylindrical, undivided, rigid, pungent, glabrous, 4 inches or less 
long, not furrowed. Flowers axillary, clustered, silky as well as 
their short stalklets, about 4 of an inch long, downward cylindrical, 
recurved towards the globular summit, seceding into four white or 
pink petals (or sepals) ; style glabrous, short-exserted ; stigma 
terminal, depressed-conical ; ovary almost sessile, glabrous ; fruit 
nearly 14 inches long, woody, bivalved, almost oblique-oval in 
outline, wrinkled on the sides, the beaklike long apex much 
inflexed ; seeds black (as in nearly all Hakeas), one to each valve, 
a cavity in the latter fitting to the convex outer rough side of the 
nucleus, which is oval-wedgeshaped, and much shorter than the 
terminal membranous upwards oval appendage. 
This species is dispersed from the Grampians to Spencer’s 
Gulf, particularly growing on mountainous scrub-lands. 
It differs from the other Victorian congeners, except H. rugosa 
(a smaller plant) and the flat-leaved H. ulicina, in its conical 
stigma. Our only yellow-flowered species is H. nodosa. Besides 
Banksias, Grevilleas and Hakeas our colony produces representa- 
tives of the proteaceous genera Isopogon, Adenanthos, Conos- 
permum, Persoonia, Orites (alpine), Telopea (the Gippsland 
Waratah) and Lomatia ; but the species of any of them are few 
or solitary here. 
VIII.—_THE ASTERS, DAISIES, EVERLASTINGS 
AND ALLIED PLANTS. 
THE great order, which comprises these kinds and cognate plants, 
was called already by Vaillant in the beginning of the last century 
