324 FLORA OE TASMANIA. [Proteacea. 
agree with Grevillea, differing chiefly in habit, the deciduous style, and more winged seed. (Named in honour of 
Baron Hake, a German patron of science.) 
1. Hakea Epiglottis (Lab. Nov. Holl. i. 30. t. 40) ; glaberrima v. sericeo-puberula, foliis teretibus 
ascendentibus pungentibus (1-3-pollicaribus) basi attenuatis esulcatis, fasciculis axillaribus sub-4-floris, 
periantbiis parvis pedicellisque Bequilongis albo-sericeis, capsula refracta semilunar] glabro lsevi apice incurvo 
acuminato carinato, semine semilunari nucleo oblique obovato ala terminali obovata obtusa breviore. — 
Br. Prodr. 382 ; Linn. Trans, x. 179 ; Meisn. in PC. Prodr. xiv. 395. Hakea Milligani, Meisn. in Hook. 
■Toum. But. iv. 207, anno 1852. (Gunn, 729, 1235.) 
Hab. Common in various parts of the Island, ascending to 3000 feet.— (Pi. Oct.) (v. v.) 
Distiub. South-east Australia; Victoria, Robertson. (Cultivated in England.) 
I have exan ined tin //. MiUigani in the Linnsean Society's Herbarium, and cannot perceive that it differs 
from H. Epiglottis. A common and very variable species, growing from 5-10 feet high, wholly glabrous or 
sparingly covered with appressed silky hairs.— Leaves 1-3 inches long, usually curving upward, quite terete, rigid 
and pungent, rarely erect and rather flexuose, sometimes rigidly patent, neither grooved nor striate. Flowers in 
small axillary fascicles, four to six together ; pedicels and perianth with white or rufous silky hairs. Capsules woody, 
somewhat like a letter S in shape, being suddenly bent down, with the point acuminate, as suddenly turned in, very 
woody, somewhat compressed, i-f inch long, grey or reddish ; back quite smooth or roughish. Seed black, nucleus 
shorter than the wing. 
2. Hakea pugioniformis (Cav. Ann. Hist. Nat. i. 213 ; Ic. vi. p. 24. t. 533) ; foliis patentibus 
ascendentibusve teretibus acuminato-pungentibus (1-2-pollicaribus) exsulcis basi attenuatis ramulisque gla- 
bris v. appresse minute sericeis, fasciculis axillaribus racemosis sericeis villosisve sub-8-floris, capsula recta 
ovato-lanceolata in rostrum rectum pugioniforme sensim attenuata infra medium transverse echinato-cris- 
tata, seminis nucleo obovato tuberculato ala terminali tequilata dimidio breviore. — Pr. Prodr. 381; Linn. 
Trans, x. 178 ; Cav. Lc. 533 ; Lodd. Pot. Cab. 353 ; Reichenb. Mag. t. 23 ; Meisn. in PC. Prodr. xiv. 398. 
{Gunn, 731.) 
Var. £. Ursula ; racemo villoso.— Meisn. I. c. 
Hab. Common in many parts of the Island, in poor soil ; Yorktown, Flinders' Island, Georgetown, 
Hobarton, etc.— (El. Jan.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia ; New South Wales and Victoria. (Cultivated in England.) 
A smaD, sparingly branched shrub, 2-4 feet high, a good deal similar in foliage to II Epiglottis, but the leaves 
are shorter and more strict.— Flowers more numerous, racemose, and densely silky or villous, and the fruit straight, 
conical, and swollen below, gradually tapering into a rigid, pungent apex; it is transversely crested about the 
broadest part, and contains one black seed, with a short ridge or prominence in the nucleus, and a flat blunt wing. 
3. Hakea microcarpa (Br. Prodr. 383) ; foliis (1-3-pollicaribus) linearibus teretibus passim planis 
attenuato-pungentibus ramulisque glabris infimis v. plantis junioribus omnibus planis marginibus incrassatis, 
pedicellis perianthiisque Bequilongis glaberrimis, capsula i-|-pollicari oblonga obtusa v. acuta compressa 
basi attenuata, calcaribus brevissimis deciduis, seminis nucleo lsevi margine basique aptero ala terminali 
nucleo latiore et longiore. -i?r. in Linn. Trans, x. 182; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 219; Pot. Reg. 475; Meisn. 
in PC. Prodr. xiv. 400. 
Var. a. Tasmanica (Meisn. 1. c.) ; pedicellis fructiferis tenuibus, capsula minore brevi sub-^ unc. longa 
atrofusca, valvis coriaceis. (Gunn, 20, 210.) 
Vn. $. Batknrstiana (Meisn. I.e.); pedicellis fructiferis incra.satis, capsula majore oblonga sub-i 
unc. longa pallidiore, valvis lignosis. {Gunn, 2001.) 
