1910] Hall: Studies in Ornamental Trees and Shrubs. 



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One of the earliest species introduced into England (where 

 protection from frost is necessary). Presumably also grown in 

 California, although no plants can now be located. The pleas- 

 ing green foliage, suggestive of holly-leaves, may render it de- 

 sirable. 



3. H. laurina R. Br. H. eucalyptoides Meissn. 



A tall shrub, attaining in Australia to 30 ft. and tree-like: branchlets 

 gray with a minute pubescence or reddish and quite glabrous; foliage 

 rusty pubescent when young but soon glabrous: leaves elliptic or lanceo- 

 late, narrowed to the apex which is either acute or obtuse, tapering to 

 the petiole, often sickle-shaped, 5 or 6 in. long, % to 1 in. wide; with 

 mostly 5 or 7 parallel veins from the base and these sometimes giving 

 off a few obscure secondary veinlets: flowers crimson, very numerous, in 

 dense globular clusters sessile in the leaf -axils: capsule ovoid, short- 

 beaked, about li/4 in. long by % in. broad, nearly smooth. Illustrations: 

 Fig. 3; Bot. Mag., pi. 7127. 



A very vigorous and striking sort with showy crimson flower- 

 clusters from which protrude the long golden-yellow styles. Per- 

 haps the best for dry hillsides where a chaparral covering is 

 desired. Known on the Riviera as "Sea Urchin." 



Tig. 3. Hakea laurina. 



Fig. 4. HaTcea elliptica. 



