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CXI. PROTEACEzE. 
[G revillea 
21. G. gibbosa (swollen), B. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 177, Prod. 380; 
Benth. FI. Austr. v. 463. A small or large tree sometimes reduced to a tall 
shrub, the branches and foliage softly tomentose-pubescent with very short hairs 
silky on the young shoots and persisting on both sides of the adult leaves. 
Leaves entire, ovate ovate-lanceolate or oblong-elliptical, obtuse or almost acute, 
tapering into a short petiole, 3 to 4 or rarely 5in. long, penniveined with rather 
numerous oblique primary veins confluent in an intermarginal nerve. Flowers 
small, in dense spike-like racemes of 3 to Gin., shortly pedunculate and usually 
3 together at the ends of the branches. Pedicels 1 to 1^ line long, pubescent as 
well as the rhacliis. Perianth sprinkled or clothed with appressed hairs outside,, 
glabrous inside, the tube slender, about 2 lines long, revolute under the globular 
limb. Torus small. Gland very prominent, semi-cupular, truncate or 2-lobed. 
Ovary glabrous, shortly stipitate ; style long, filiform, the stigmatic cone straight 
or nearly so. Fruit obliquely globular, 1 to liin. diameter, opening in 2 very 
hard thick hemispherical valves, enclosing 1 or 2 flat broadly winged seeds.— 
Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 385 ; G. glanca, Knight, Prot. 121. 
Hab.: Endeavour River, Banks and Solander, IP. Hill; Cape York, M'Gillivraj, Daemel ; 
Albany Island, F. v. Mueller, IV. Hill ; Suttor, Cape, and Burdekin Rivers, Leichhardt, F. v. 
Mueller, Bowman, and others. 
Wood dark-brown, prettily marked, close-grained and hard ; of a greasy nature which 
prevents it shining when polished. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods, No. 339. 
25. G. leiophylla (leaves smooth), F. v. M. ; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 471- 
Stems slender, branching erect procumbent or from a thick rhizome, often scarcely 
above 1ft. high, the whole plant except the inflorescence glabrous or sprinkled 
with a few rare appressed hairs. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, mucronate- 
acute, shortly contracted at the base, 1 to near 2in. long, with recurved or 
revolute margins or quite flat, green on both sides, veinless except the prominent 
midrib. Flowers small, in short dense somewhat secund racemes, sessile or- 
pedunculate at the ends of the branches or in the upper axils. Pedicels 1 to 2:. 
lines long. Perianth bearded inside above the middle. 
Hab.: Glasshouse Ranges, Moreton Bay, F. v. Mueller ; coastal localities in the south. 
13. HAKE A, Schrad. 
(After Baron Hake.) 
(Conchium, Sin.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth irregular or rarely regular, the tube revolute 
or curved under the limb or rarely straight, the limb globular or rarely ovoid,, 
often oblique, the laminae often cohering long after the tube has opened. Anthers, 
all perfect, sessile in the base of the concave laminae, the connective not produced 
beyond the cells. Ilypognous glands united in a single semiannular or semi- 
circular rarely disk-shaped gland occupying the upper side of the torus, in some- 
species very small. Ovary stipitate but usually very shortly so, with 2 amphi- 
tropous ovules laterally attached about the middle ; style either long and protrud- 
ing from the slit of the perianth before the summit is set free from the limb as- 
in °Grevillea, or not exceeding the perianth, more or less dilated at the end into a*, 
straight or oblique or lateral cone or disk, bearing the small stigma in the centre 
of the disk or at the summit of the cone. Fruit a hard usually woody capsule- 
opening in 2 valves. Seeds 2, compressed and collateral, the testa produced at 
the upper end into a broad membranous wing usually longer than the nucleus 
and more or less decurrent down the upper or both margins and sometimes com- 
pletely surrounding the nucleus, the nucleus itself flat and smooth on the inner 
face (next the other seed), convex on the outer face and usually rugose or 
muricate, the protuberances fitting into corresponding cavities in the valve 
each seed with its wing sometimes covering the whole inner surface of the valve* 
