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Hakea Ivoryi Bailey. 
Ivory's Hakea. 
(Family PROTEACE^E.) 
Botanical description. Genus, Hakea. (See Part XLVI, p. 105.) 
Botanical description. Species, H. Ivoryi Bailey in the Queensland Flora, 
p. 1346, with a Plate. 
A tr.-.- attaining a height of 30 tx> 40 feet, with a thick corky bark, branchlets often dark and 
iiioiv or lees clothed with short appressed hairs. 
! Irreti', pungent pointed, smooth, very slender, usually under fi inches long, simple or once 
or I \\ ice forked, often crowded on tbe branchlets. 
silky-hairy, in simple racemes or paniculate with irregular raceme-like branches, 
some :; im-lics long, dense, peduncles short, on which the hairs sometimes form strigose tufts. 
Pedicels hairy, 3 lines long. 
h ttili, hairy outside, .'! lines long, greenish white (perhaps when fresh yellowish white), 
slightly enlarging towards the pedicel, revolute under the globular limb. 
purple, prominent, narrow horseshoe-shaped. 
Ovary stipitutr, glabrous or slightly hoary. 
N ''.'/'c glabrous ; stigmatic disk conical in the centre. 
/'i ail nearly straight, 1^ inch long, ^ inch broad, shortly tapering to the stipes and from above 
the middle upwards; dorsal protuberances small. Seed ing not decurrent along the 
nucleus. (Op. cit.) 
Contrasted with allied species it has terete, smooth, pungent- pointed leaves, 
usually under 6 inches long, and once or twice forked. Flowers racemose, or in 
racemose-panicles. The perianth-tube is hairy outside. 
Botanical Name. Hakea, already explained (see Part XLVI, p. 106) ; 
Ivoryi, in honour of William Alexander Laurie Ivory, who collected it and sent it 
to the describer. 
Vernacular Name. A "Cork- wood," because of its thick corky bark. It 
could be called " Ivory's Hakea," of course, but if any man were to adopt that 
vernacular, a reasonable question would be to ask him what objection he has to 
Hakea Ivoryi. 
Timber. Mr. R. J. Dalton, of Wanaaring, N.S.W., informed me some years 
ago, " The best timber for bullock-yokes, and is far superior to the Oak (Casuarina) 
which comes from inside districts ; no use for anything else." If it be the " best" 
timber for a specific use like bullock-yokes, it must be a timber of some merit, and 
it is well worthy of further inquiry. 
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