Ilakea.] 
CXI. PROTEACEflS. 
1347' 
tapering at the base, thick, minutely silky pubescent on both sides, the veins 
longitudinal, slightly anastomosing, scarcely prominent. Racemes loosely 
cylindrical, 3 to 6in. long, tomentose-pubescent as in H. lorea. Pedicels 2 to -5 
lines long. Perianth-tube about 5 lines, oblique, dilated below the middle, 
revolute upwards. Torus oblique. Gland large, semicircular. Ovary shortly 
stipitate, style rather thick, not long; stigmatic disk oblique, broadly conical. 
Fruit ovate-lanceolate, 14- to lfin. long, 7 to 8 lines broad. — Meissn. in DC. 
Prod. xiv. 411 ; F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 191 ; Grevillea Alphonsiana, F. v. M. in 
Hook. Kew Journ. ix. 22; Meissn. l.c. 699. 
Hab.: Recorded by Queensland by F. v. M. 
5. H. arborescens (tree-like), Pi. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 187, Prod. 
386 ; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 497. A tall shrub or small tree, the young shoots 
silky. Leaves linear linear-lanceolate or sometimes rather broader and slightly 
falcate, obtuse or acuminate, contracted at the base, longitudinally but obscurely 
several veined, minutely silky-pubescent on both sides, 3 to 6in. long. Flowers 
small, in short dense almost globular racemes or clusters on lateral peduncles of 
J to Jin., often on the old wood. Pedicels filiform, 1 to 2 lines long. Perianth 
silky pubescent, the tube slender, scarcely 1| line long, revolute under the limb. 
Torus straight. Gland semiannular, not very prominent. Ovary shortly 
stipitate. Stigmatic disk nearly straight with a short broad cone. Fruit nearly 
straight, 14- to neaidy 2in. long, lin. broad, very shortly beaked. Seed-wing 
decurrent along the upper margin of the nucleus to the base. — Meissn. in DC. 
Prod. xiv. 410. 
Hab.: Islands of tlie Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Drown, Henne ; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; 
Mount Elliott, Fitzalan. 
6. H. Persiehana (after W. Persieh), F. v. 31 . , Austr. Journ. of Pharmacy, 
Nov. 1886. A small tree with slender branchlets, clothed with an appressed 
down. Leaves thinly filiform, attaining 7in. in length, glabrescent, not shining 
or furrowed, the apex pointed but the point easily wearing off. Peduncles about 
Jin. long bearing dense corymbs of small flowers, the rhachis velvety; bracts 
minute, very deciduous ; segments of perianths about 2 or 3 lines long, silky 
outside ; pedicels about the length of perianth. Style almost glabrous ; stigma 
hemispheric-conical, much broader than the summit of the style, peltate and 
quite terminal ; hypogynous gland unilateral, adnate ; ovary glabrous, nearly 
sessile; fruit lin. long, Jin. broad, lanceolate-ellipsoid, almost dimidiate-oblique, 
smooth, shortly attenuated at the base, gradually narrowed into the acute apex. 
Seed-wing not decurrent along the nucleus. — From F. v. M.’s description in l.c. 
Hab.: Endeavour River. 
7. £ 1 . trineura (3-nerved), F. v. 31. Fragm. iii. 146 ; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 
497. A tree?, the branches and foliage very minutely hoary-tomentose. Leaves 
oblong-cuneate or lanceolate, obtuse, contracted into a short petiole, 3 to Sin. 
long, rather thick, triplinerved and very obliquely almost longitudinally veined, 
the margins nerve-like, not recurved, the veins equally conspicuous on both sides.. 
Racemes axillary, about 2in. long. Pedicels J to lin. long. Perianth glabrous 
as well as the whole inflorescence, the tube fully 3 lines long, revolute under the 
globular limb. Torus straight. Gland thick, semicircular. Ovary shortly 
stipitate ; style long ; stigmatic disk oblique, broad, conical in the centre. 
Fruit ljin. long, fin. thick, smooth, slightly incurved scarcely beaked. Seed- 
wings shortly decurrent on the upper margin of the nucleus. — Grevillea trineura, 
F. v. M. l.c. 
Hab.: Broadsound, Bowman ; Rockhampton, Thozet. 
8. H. eriantha (flower woolly), Pi. Br. Prot. Nov. 29 ; Benth. FI. Austr. 
v. 502. A tall shrub or small tree, the young shoots silky-pubescent, the adult 
foliage glabrous. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, acute or with a callous point,. 
