IHakea.] 
CXI. PROTEACEiE. 
1849 
petiole, 3 to Gin. long, but sometimes oblong-elliptical and 2 to 4in. long, of a 
pale colour, veinless or obscurely and obliquely penniveined. Flowers small, in 
dense axillary clusters, the very short rkachis hirsute. Pedicels glabrous, 
filiform, about 3 lines long. Perianth glabrous, the tube scarcely 2 lines long, 
much revolute under the globular limb. Torus small. Gland small. Ovary 
nearly sessile; style long, with a large lateral convex stigmatic disk. Fruit 
about lin. long, ^ to Jin. broad, with a short incurved beak, more or less rugose 
and sometimes covered with large very prominent tubercles. Seed-wing shortly 
decurrent along the upper margin of the nucleus. — R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
x. 185 ; Prod. 385 ; Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 416 ; Sweet, FI. Austral, t. 27 ; 
Embothrium saligrmm, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 215 ; Concilium salignum , Sm. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 124 ; Embothrium salicifolium , Vent. Jard. Cels, t 8 ; 
■Concilium salicifolium, Gaertn. f. Fr. iii. 217 ; Hakea mimosoides, A. Cunn. ; 
Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 416; H . Jiorulenta, Meissn. in Hook. Kew. Journ. vii. 
116, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 416. 
Hab.: Araucaria Ranges, Leichhardt; Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, 
JO v. Mueller ; Wallangarra and Stanthorpe. 
13. £1. purpurea (purple), Hook, in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 348; Bentli. FI. 
Austr. v. 513. A hard rigid bushy shrub of several ft., glabrous except a few 
silky hairs on the very young shoots. Leaves terete, smooth, once or twice 
bifid or trifid, rigid and pungent-pointed, the whole leaf usually 1^ to 2in. 
long, the devided portion about as long as the simple base. Flowers crimson, 
in sessile or shortly pedunculate axillary umbels. Pedicels glabrous, filiform, 
3 or 4 lines long. Perianth glabrous, the tube about 5 lines long, dilated below 
the middle, open early along the under side, attenuate and revolute under the 
limb. Torus straight, rather broad. Gland scarcely prominent. Ovary shortly 
stipitate; style long, with an oblique almost lateral stigmatic disk. Fruit 1J 
to 14in. long, Jin. broad, nearly straight, scarcely beaked. Seed-wing very 
broad, decurrent down both margins and round the base of the nucleus. — 
Meissn. in Linntea xxvi. 358, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 404 ; Grevillea trisecta, F. 
v. M. First Gen. Rep. 17 (name only). 
Hab.: Warrego River , Mitchell; and other inland localities. 
14. EC. gibbosa (swmllen), Car. Anal. Hist. Nat. i. 215 ; Ic. vi. 21, t. 534 ; 
Bcnth. FI. Austr. v. 513. A shrub of several ft., the branches and young 
leaves hirsute with spreading hairs, the older foliage sometimes glabrous. 
Leaves terete, entire, smooth, rigid, pungent-pointed, 1 to 3in. long. Flowers 
an sessile axillary clusters. Pedicels short, densely villous. Perianth glabrous, 
the tube about 3 lines long, revolute under the globular limb. Ovary contracted 
into a very short stipes ; style not long, with an oblique stigmatic disk. Fruit 
ovoid-globular, oblique, about lin. diameter, rugose, with a very short thick 
obtuse oblique or incurved beak, the valves with small dorsal horns near the end. 
Seed-wing narrowly decurrent down both margins of the nucleus. — R. Br. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 181, Prod. 382 ; Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 401 ; Banksia 
gibbosa, Sm. in White Voy. 224, t. 22, f. 2 ; Concilium gibbosum, Sm. in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. ix. 119; Concilium splicer oideum, Sm. l.c. 120; Concilium cornutum, 
Gfertn. f. Fr. iii. 216, t. 219; Hakea pubescens, Schrad. Sert. Hannov. 27; 
Concilium, pubescens, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 141 ; H. pinifolia, Salisb. Prod. 
51 ; H. lanigera, Ten. FI. Nap. i. 22, t. 6. 
Hab.: Moreton Island, J. F. Shirley ; Fraser Island, Hon. Miss Lovell. 
15. H. leucoptera (light-coloured wing), B. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 
180, Prod. 382 ; Bentli. FI. Austr. v. 515. A shrub with rather slender virgate 
branches, minutely hoary-pubescent. Leaves terete, smooth, mucronate with 
fine straight rigid points, more or less attenuate at the base, 14 to 3in. long. 
