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CXI. PROTEACE^E. 
\Hakea.. 
Flowers small, in short racemes or clusters pedunculate in the axils or rarely 
terminating short leafy branches, the peduucle and rhachis minutely silky- 
pubescent, 4 to fin. long. Pedicels glabrous, 2 to 2f lines long. Perianth 
glabrous, the tube about 2f lines long, slightly dilated below the middle, revolute 
under the limb. Torus slightly oblique. Gland semiannular. Ovary stipitate ; 
style not long, with a very oblique almost lateral stigmatic disk. Fruit about 
lin. long, A to fin. broad, often somewhat verrucose, with a short conical beak, 
the valves without any or with scarcely prominent dorsal protuberances at the 
end. Seed-wing usually more or less decurrent along the upper margin only of 
the nucleus. — Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 396 ; F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 219 (but not 
all the synonyms adduced) ; H. leucocephala, Dietr. Syn. PI. i. 531 (by a mis- 
print) ; H. virgata, R. Br. Prot. Nov. 26 ; Meissn. in D.C. Prod. xiv. 395 ; H. 
tephrospenna , R. Br. l.c. ; Meissn. l.c. 402; H. longicuspis. Hook, in Mitch. Trop. 
Austr. 397 ; Meissn. l.c. 395 ; H. stricta, F. v. M. ; Meissn. in Linnsea xxvi. 360 
and l.c. 400. 
Hab.: Armadilla, Barton. A common inland species. 
16. U. microearpa (fruit small), E. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 182,. 
Prod. 383; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 516. A shrub varying from 2 or 3ft. to twice 
that height, quite glabrous or with a very minute pubescence on the young 
branches and foliage. Leaves mostly terete and smooth, slender or thick, from 
lin. in some specimens to 4in. long in others, but sometimes the lower ones or 
in other specimens nearly or quite all more or less compressed or channelled 
above, or quite flat and linear-lanceolate with the midrib and margins prominent 
underneath. Flowers in axillary clusters. Perianth glabrous as well as the 
pedicels, the tube usually about 2 lines long but variable in size, revolute under 
the limb. Torus straight. Gland semiannular. Ovary shortly stipitate ; style 
not long, with a broad, somewhat oblique stigmatic disk. Fruit A to nearly fin. 
long, about fin. broad, oblique, smooth or slightly rugose, the valves with short 
dorsal horns near the end sometimes reduced to small protuberances or almost 
obsolete. — Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 400 ; Hook. f. FI. Tasrn. i. 324 ; Bot. Reg. 
t. 475 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 219; H.patula, R. Br. Prot. Nov. 27; Meissn. l.c. 
401 ; H. bifrons, Meissn. l.c. 400. 
Hab.: Towards Wallangarra. 
17. H, plurinervia (nerves numerous), L. r. M. Herb.; Eentli. FI. Austr. v. 
523. A shrub of 6 or 7ft., the young branches loosely tomentose. Leaves 
lanceolate, falcate, obtuse and often oblique at the end, with a small callous 
point, tapering into a very short petiole or almost sessile, 4 to 6in. long and 
f to fin. broad, with about 7 longitudinal nerves prominent on both sides. 
Flowers small and numerous in axillary clusters, the villous rhachis rarely 
above 1 line long. Pedicels glabrous, 2 or 3 lines long. Perianth glabrous, 
the tube scarcely above 2 lines long, slender, revolute under the ovoid-globular 
limb. Torus small, oblique. Gland scarcely prominent. Ovary shortly 
stipitate ; style not long, with an erect stigmatic cone. Fruit above lin. long 
and nearly fin. broad, more or less falcate, with an incurved conical beak. 
Seeu-wing narrowly but unequally decurrent along both sides of the nucleus. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; and other northern localities. 
18. H. dactyloides (finger-like), Car. Anal. Hist. Xat. i. 215 t. 12 ; Ir. vi. 
25, t. 535 ; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 524. A tall shrub with erect branches, the 
young shoots usually silky, the adult foliage rarely retaining more or less of 
pubescence, usually quite glabrous. Leaves from linear-lanceolate to oblong- 
lanceolate, acute or scarcely obtuse, tapering into a short petiole, falcate oblique 
or straight, 2 to 4in. long, rigid, prominently triplinerved, smooth between the 
nerves or rarely in the broader leaves a few irregular veins forming almost 
