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THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
A chemical analysis of the various kinds of salt-bushes would be highly 
desirable for an accurate estimate of their respective nutritive properties, though 
such is not invariably combined with palatability. 
The Chenopodium triandrum of New Zealand is transferable to the genus 
Rhagodia. 
Hakea Bbookeana. 
Branchlets robust, scantily silky ; leaves rather short, filiform, rigid, pungent, 
goon glabrous ; fruits solitary, almost sessile, ovate-globular, slightly pointed ; 
valves very thick, outside exceedingly rough from protuding angular blunt 
appressed-downy tubercles ; cavity deeply foveolate ; seeds roundish-ovate, on 
the outer side very prominently tuberculated, their membranous appendage 
narrowly decurrent on both sides. 
At or towards Mount Ragged ; Miss S. Brooke. 
Probably of shrubby growth. Leaves spreading, firm, hardly exceeding an 
inch in length, if not shorter, always smooth. Flowers unknown. Fruits fully 
an inch long and nearly as broad, reminding when unopened of those of Pandanus 
though in miniature; cavity about half as broad as the valves. Seeds black, 
about ^ inch long, the terminal portion of the appendicular membrane as long as 
the nucleus. 
The singular manner in which the surface of the fruit-valves is broke up, 
giving it a corky appearance, has its counterpart only in H. pandanocarpa, which 
species however produces flat leaves, larger fruits and a seed-membrane passing 
broadly all around the nucleus, irrespective of likely floral differences, yet to be 
ascertained. 
Hakea Maceaeana. 
Branchlets glabrous or scantily silky; leaves rather long, thinly filiform, 
glabrescent, underneath traversed by a slight longitudinal furrow, the apex 
gradually pointed; umbels usually only 3 — 6-flowered, almost glabrous ; stalklets 
about as long as the small flowers ; style glabrous ; stigma lateral ; fruit rather 
large, nearly ovate, very turgid, outside densely verrucular-rough except at the 
much compressed slightly or not horned sumu.it; seeds almost smooth, their 
membranous appendage imperfectly decurrent on one side. 
Near the sources of the Shoalhaven-River and near the eastern tributaries of 
the Snowy-River, at elevations of nearly 4000 feet ; W. Baeuerlen. 
A subalpine species. Leaves 3 — 5 inches long. Petals i inch long, 
pale-coloured. Ovary almost sessile, glabrous. Hypogynous gland nearly square. 
Fruit attaining a length of 1J inches, the margin of the valves slightly edged 
along the upper portion. Seeds oblique-ovate, measuring about ^ inch in length, 
shorter than the terminating membrane. 
Specifically named in recognition of kind support given by Mr. George 
MacRae, of Braidwood, to the collector’s local botanic travels. This species 
differs from H. nodosa in much longer and never compressed leaves, in some- 
what larger flowers fewer in each umbel, in evidently not yellow petals, in 
bigger and still rougher fruits and in not tuberculated seeds ; moreover H. nodosa 
is always a low-lands species. The leaves of H. Macraeana are much like those 
of H. Persiehana. The fruit is similar to that of H. propinqua, which species 
however has thicker, much shorter and more rigid leaves not unisulcate beneath 
and also rougher seeds. 
Hakea Pebsiehana. 
Arborescent ; branchlets slender, appressed-downy ; leaves long, thinly 
filiform, glabrescent, their apex gradually pointed ; corymbs dense, conspicuously 
stalked ; rachs almost velvet-downy ; flowers very small ; petals somewhat shorter 
