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Hakea Macraeana F.v.M. 
Macrae's Hakea. 
(Family PROTEACE^E.) 
Botanical description. Genus, Hakea. (See Part XLVI, p. 105.) 
Botanical description. Species, H. Macraeana F.v.M. in Aust. Journ. Pharmacy 
(Melbourne), November, 1886. 
Following is the original description : 
glabrous or scantily silky. 
Leaves rather long, thinly filiform, glabrescent, underneath traversed by a slight longitudinal 
furrow, the apex gradually pointed. 
Umbel* usually only 3-6 flowered, almost glabrous. 
Stalklets about as long as the small flowers. 
Style glabrous. 
Stigma lateral. 
fruit rather large, nearly ovate, very turgid, outside densely verrucular-rough, except at the 
much compressed slightly or not horned summit. 
Heeds almost smooth, their membraneous appendage imperfectly decurrent on one side. 
Leaves 3--5 inches long. 
Petals ^ J inch long, pale coloured. 
Ovary almost sessile, .glabrou--. 
Hypogynous gland nearly square. 
Fruit attaining a length of 1 J inches, the margin of the valves slightly edged along the upper 
portion. 
Seeds oblique-ovate, measuring about ^ inch in length, shorter than the terminating membrane, 
This species differs from H. nodosa in much longer and never compressed leaves, in somewhat 
larger flowers, fewer in each umbel, in evidently not yellow petals, in bigger and still rougher fruits, and 
in not tuberculated seeds ; moreover, H. nodosa is always a low-lands species. The leaves of H. Maereana 
are much like those of H. Persiehana. The fruit is similar to that of H. propinqua, which species, 
however, has thicker, much shorter, and more rigid leaves, not unisulcate beneath, and also rougher seeds. 
(Aust. Journ. Pharm., Nov., 1886.) 
Mr. J. L. Boorinan says its general habit of growth is like that of JSL 
propinqua, but that its foliage has a silvery cast. 
Botanical Name. Hakea, already explained (see Part XLVI, p. 106) j 
Macraeana, in honour of Mr. George Macrae, of near Braidwood, who assisted Mr. 
William Baeuorlen, the original collector of this species, in his botanical travels. 
