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Order PROTEACEjE. 
PERSOONIA, Sip 
P. falcata, B. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 162 ; Prod. 373 ; El. 
Austr. V. 385. Boomerang-leaved Geebung. 1. 
CYANOCARPUS, n. gen. 
(So named from its briglit-blue fruits.) 
Mowers hermaphrodite ; perianth regular, in a straight tube 
before expansion ; segments valvate, recurved when expanded ; anthers 
on short filaments. Hypogynous glands 4, distinct, orbicular-ovate, 
equal. Ovary sessile, with long straight style; stigma terminal, 
clavate. Pruit a drupe with succulent juicy exocarp and cartilaginous 
endocarp, 1-seeded. A slender evergreen tree with alternate serrated 
leaves. Plowers in axillary racemes, pedicels connate in pairs. Pruit 
a juicy bright-blue drupe. 
C. Hortoniana, n. sp. (After the Hon. A. Norton, who has 
always taken a deep interest in Australian botany.) A small tree, 
the branches when young clothed with dark-reddish short hairs. 
Leaves altera ate, broadly lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 4 to 7 in. long, 
1 to 3 in. broad, irreo-ularly but sharply serrate, the apex more or less 
elongated ; petioles short, which with the primary veins are clothed 
with rasty hairs like the branchlets ; texture membranous, upper 
surface glossy ; primary veins prominent, joining some distance 
within the margin. Eacemes axillary, 2 to 4 in. long, ferruginous; 
flowers in pairs, the pedicels short, connate, straight and slender in 
the bud, about 3 lines long, the segments closely revolute when 
expanded, glabrous inside ; filaments equal in length with the anther, 
incurved; style erect, glabrous; stigma clavate; ovary sessile, very 
hairy. Pruit a bright-blue oval juicy drupe, about i in. long, more 
or less hairy, and bearing the persistent, slender, straight style. 
Hab. : Tringilburra Creek and creeks off Russell E-iver. 
A lovely tree when in full fruit ; wood red, with the peculiar grain of the order. 
HELIOIA, Lour. 
H. prsealta, F. v. M. ; Pragm. iii. 37 ; PI. Austr. v. 404. 1, 2. 
H. Youngiana, F. v. M. Pragm. iv. 84 ; PI. Austr. v. 406. 3. 
K. ferrugiliea, F. v. M. Pragm. iii. 37 ; PI. Austr. v. 405. 2. 
H. Whelani, n. sp. l. (After Sergeant E. J. Whelan). A 
glabrous tree of medium si«e. Trunk erect, bark smoothish, not thick, 
seldom more than \ in. on old trees ; the branches opposite or whorled, 
reddish when young ; wood with the usual grain of the order and 
deep red. Leaves opposite or more frequently at the ends of the 
branches in whorls of 3 to 6, petiolate, lanceolate, 4 to 7 in. long, 
1 to 3 in, broad, the points more or less elongated, midrib prominent ; 
reticulations close, prominent in the dried leaf but scarcely so when 
fresh, margins entire. Plowers in terminal racemes of about 2 in. 
long, judging from the fruit specimens, but no flowers seen. Pruit 
indehiscent or slightly opening along the ventral suture, slightly 
ferruginous, globular, 2 or more inches in diameter, over 2i in. when 
