Conospe rmuni.] 
. CXI. PROTEACE.E. 
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even still longer. Peduncles in the upper axils usually rather numerous, 1 to 
3in. long, rarely longer, each bearing several pedunculate spikes, the whole 
forming a more or less corymbose panicle. Bracts broad, acuminate, shorter 
than the perianth-tube. Perianth pubescent, 2J to 8 lines long, the limb much 
shorter than the tube, the upper lip broad and concave, the lower rather longer, 
divided to the middle into narrow lobes.— R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 154, 
Prod. 368 ; Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 319 ; Hook. f. El. Tasm. i. 319 ; Bot. Mag. 
t. 2724 ; C. falci folium, Knight, Prot. 95 (It. Br.) ; C. affine, Roem. and Schult. 
Syst. iii. Mant. 274 ; C. spicatum, R. Br. Prot. Nov. 10 ; Meissn. in DC. l.c. ; 
(J. propinquum, R. Br. l.c. ; Meissn. l.c.; C. lavandulifolium, A. Cunn.; Meissn. 
in PI. Preiss. i. 519, and in DC. l.c. 
Hab : Moreton Island, M’Gillivray, F. v. Mueller-, Estuary of the Burkekin, Herb. F. Mueller. 
Var. linifolium. Leaves more spreading and inflorescence. — Peel Island and Bedcliffe Point, 
Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham. 
4. PERSOONIA, Sm. 
(After C. H. Persoon). 
(Linkia, Cav.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth regular, cylindrical in the bud or constricted 
above the base, the segments free or nearly so, recurved in the upper portion, 
the laminte scarcely broader than the claws. Anthers all perfect except in one 
species) on short filaments inserted at or below the middle of the perianth- 
segments, the cells adnate to the connective. Hypogynous scales or glands 
usually small. Ovary stipitate (the stipes in a few species very thick and 
short), with a terminal style either short and indexed or elongated and filiform, 
the stigma terminal ; ovules 2 or rarely 1, orthotropous, pendulous with short 
funicles and not strictly collateral, one ovule with a longer funicle or attached 
lower down than the other. Fruit a drupe, with a succulent exocarp and a thick 
very hard endocarp, either 1 -celled and 1 -seeded, or obliquely 2-celled with a 
single seed in each cell.— Shrubs or small trees. Leaves entire, alternate, or 
rarely here and there almost whorled. Flowers yellow or white, solitary in the 
axils or owing to the abortion or reduction of the floral leaves forming short 
racemes at first terminal or axillary, or at length at the base of a leafy branch, 
rarely in slender terminal 1 -sided racemes. 
With the exception of a single New Zealand species the genus is limited to Australia. 
Sect. 1. Pycnostyles. — Style short, often as thick as the ovary, incurved or hooked at the 
end, burying the stigma in a cavity of the upper perianth-segment below the anther. 
Leaves flat, long, falcate, narrow or broad, 1-nerved. Tropical species . . 1. P.falcata. 
Sect. 2. Amblyanthera. — Style elongated beyond the anther-cells, with a terminal 
stigma. Connective of the anthers not produced beyond the cells. Stipes of the ovary inarticulate 
or articulate at the very base. 
Ovary villous (rarely almost glabrous in P. media). 
Leaves glabrous, flat, ovate, obovate, elliptical or broadly lanceolate 
Perianth pubescent with appressed hairs. 
Leaves mostly lanceolate. Perianth-segments tipped with dorsal 
points 2. P. media. 
Leaves mostly elliptical. Perianth-segments without points .... 3. P. cornifolia. 
Leaves pubescent or silkv-villous, flat or with recurved margins, from 
lanceolate to obovate. 
Leaves mostly obovate or oblong-spathulate 4. P. sericea. 
Leaves mostly narrow 5. P. Mitchellii. 
Leaves scabrous or hispid, with revolute margins. Leaves narrow-linear, 
spreading, incurved, § to ljin. long C . P. fastigiata. 
Ovary glabrous. Flowers erect. Leaves flat, veined, mostly about ljin., 
elliptical, falcate, lanceolate or linear, usually glabrous. 
Stems prostrate or trailing. Leaves usually short and broad. Pedicels 
short 7. P. prostrata. 
