Proteacea.] FLORA OF TASMANIA. 
m eo loculum unicum constituente, demu 
sursum incrassatus ; stiff-mate libero obliquo. fftuc obconica, 1-sperma, papposa. 
sparsis, indivisis, Uncaribi's, fliformibus, h\te<ierrhim ; peduneulis ajrittaribn 
persistentibus ; floribus aldis canbkve, mioeii lanatisve, rarius glabris. 
Rigid shrubs, for the most part natives of South-western Australia, whence tw 
Meisner, and there are also about fourteen known South-eastern 
undivided and entire. Mowers white or blue, in terminal beads, spikes, or panklee. 
rally irregular 4-fid limb, one of whose segments is concave sod 
segments of the perianth, included; one filament has no anther: of tin- other ihret 
next the antherless stamen, and one fertile towards the middle j 
they are confluent, — in other words, the I 
fluent with, and form one cell with, the adjacent perfect cells of the two lateral ami 
seeded. (Name from kcdvos, a cone, and cnrep/x.a, a seed.) 
1. Conospermum taxifolium (Smith in Ikes' ( ycl.) ; fruticulus n 
foliosis, foliis anguste linearibus acuminatis 1-costatis, peduneulis elongatii 
corymboso-polycephalis, floribus Bericeis,bracteis ovatia cuspidatis perianthio di 
368; Bot. Mag. 2724. C. taxifolium, /3 Hookeri, Meim. i* DC. Pndr. xi 
Hab. Abundant in wet heathy places at Spring Bay, 
Dec.) 
Distrib. New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. •Cultivate 
Inconsequence of my having datcxi ' 1,1S l ),:int '" u 
the leaves were not well developed, and the peduncles bad ao4 ;. 
Tasmanian specimens as a variety; liny however <. 
same age.— A small, erect shrub, with few, sfend r, 
patent 
' 
Peduncles terminal and axillary, togethei 
long, each corymbose 
3 the silky perianth, cuspidate. 
Gen. II. ISOPOGOX, Br. 
Flores in capitulis strobiliformibus bracteatis congest*, heniiaphr 
gracile, segmentis concavis antheriferis. Stamina antfo 
Ovarium 1-loculare, 1-ovulatum; stylo filiformi, decidu 
1-sperma, sessilis, aptera, undique comosa.— Frutices ; foliis spams, 
scepe capituhm involucrantibus ; floribus roseis. 
A large genus of Australian plants, of wbiel 
flowers collected into dense globose or oblong cones, formed nu 
tent bracts.— L 
regular, 4-fid, with four anthers sessile on its Iflbea, and n 
one-seeded nut, covered everywhere with long hairs.— The I eentop >>/ at M ■ h • 
spreading, very rigidly coriaceous, petiolate leaves, that are bi- n- erna «. \ p 
the upper trifid. (Name from ktos, equal, and #wy«" .... . 
segmentis divaricatis plams pungenti-mucronatis avenua ^uu 
