Proteacea.j flora of Tasmania. 
Hab. Common, especially on gravelly banks of rivers, ascending to 3000 i 
Island, Gi«m.—(FL Nov.) {v. v.) 
Distrib. Var. £. New South Wales and Victoria. (Cultivated in England.) 
A shrub, 2-5 feet high. Leaves of the young plants flat, very narrow, linear, acui 
inches long, with thick margins; of the old plants terete ami pungent. Cup-suit' <m;ill. « 
valves, each with a deciduous spur on the back. In var. /J the capsules are larger and m< 
4. Hakea acicularis (Br. Prodr. 383) ; arborea, foliis erectis patulisvc \- 
acuminato-pungentibus basin versus subtns sulcatis sessilibus basi non attouuatis r: 
culis 3-5-floris, pedicellis gracilibus sericeis pen . i tpsnla crasa 
lata superne gibba apice compressa recta v. breviter hamata et obscure biealearata, 
lato alato, ala nucleo duplo longiore secus latus inferina leminn prodncta. — Br. t 
Rekhenbach, Mag. t. 24; Endl. Icon. t. 24 ; Mirien. in DC. Prodr, m. Wl. 
Vent. Malm. t. 111. {Gunn, 2000.) 
Hab. Cape Barren and Flinders' Island, in Bass' Straits, Milligan, Gunn.—{ 
Distrib. New South Wales and Victoria. (Cultivated in England.) 
A small bushy tree. Branches and leaves glabrous. Leaves patent or erect, about 
gent, sessile by a broad, slightly decunvnl Ikim-, obscurely grooved below near the has 
slender silky pedicels. Fruit rather large. nearU an inch long, very thick, rough, with s 
ridges, blunt, or with a slightly incurved point. .SW with a tubcrcied nucleus ; wing oi 
a broad terminal expansion. 
5. Hakea lissosperma (Br. Prodr. 382) ; subarborea, foliis jmrioribns ran 
foliis (2-4-pollicaribus) teretibus paulo incurvis pungenti-acuminatis basi attenuati: 
cellis sericeis perianthio glaberrimo brevioribus sequilongisvc, capeula majuscula \ 
obtusa subrugosa rimosa brevissime bicalcarata, valvis crasse lignosis, eemraia a 
secus nucleum laevem decurrente. — Br. in Una. Tratu. x. L80; Meim. in DC. Pi 
536.) 
Hab. Subalpine situations, common, 2-4000 feet.— (Fl. Nov.) {v. v.) 
This fine species is confined to Tasmania, and is the largest of all. attaining a height 
longest-leaved, and has the largest capsules.— Leavet 2-4 inches long, terete, subfiexuoos, 
base. Capsule f-1 inch long, very- thick and woody ; the valves oblong, gibbous, subacut 
tusely spurred towards the apex. Seeds with a smooth black nucleus, and a wing of aboi 
TX. OR1TES, 
Floret spicati. Perianthlvm tetraphyllum, re< 
foliolorum insert;!; antheris subsessilibus. Gland, 
loculare, 2-ovulatum; stylo filiforrni, stricto; stignu 
centrali 2-spermo. Semina erecta, apice vel utrinq 
A small genus of mom 
South Wales, and the other 
s on those of South-ea: 
species form low bushes, wi 
with one bract at the base c 
th alternate, flat or ten: 
>f each pair. Perianth 
