No. 202. 
Hakea vittata R.Br. 
A Needlewood. 
(Family PROTEACE>E.) 
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Botanical description. Genus, Hakea. (See Part XLVI, p. 105.) 
Botanical description. Species, H. vittata R.Br., in Trans. Linn. Soc., x, 182 
(1811). 
Following is the original description : 
H. vittata, foliis filiformibus indivisis exsulcis glabris frucfcu duplo longioribus, capsulis ovafcs 
convexiusculis aequilateralibus basi citius dehiscentibus intiis lacunosis, seminis ala obovata, ramulis 
tomentosis. 
The author repeated this description in his Prodromus, p. 383. 
Then Bentham described it in English in the following words : 
Young shoots minutely ferruginous or hoary, the adult foliage glabrous. 
Leaves terete, slender, rigid, finely almost pungent-pointed, not attenuate at the base, 1| to 
3 inches long. 
Flowers not seen, except some loose remains which appear to have been like those of H. Pamplin. 
iana, the perianth silky-pubescent, the torus small, the style rather long with an orbicular 
lateral stigmatic disk. 
Fruit oToid, nearly inch long, fully 4 lines broad, spotted or slightly verrucose, scarcely beaked, 
marked with a broad smooth dark line down each suture, the valves with a short dovsal 
horn near the end. 
Seed-wing decurrent along the upper margin only of the nucleus. (B.F1. v, 507.) 
(He has a query mark before the species name probably because the material 
at his disposal was imperfect. Brown himself described it without flowers.) 
Then Kippist described in Meisner (DC. Prod., xiv, 395), -H". Pampliniana 
without fruit. It came from the neighbourhood of Adelaide, and Meisner adds 
" Species non satis nota." Bentham (B.F1. v, 507) accepts the species, and 
describes the " Fruit 1 inch long, nearly f inch broad, with a short broad straight 
beak shaped like the fruit of H. leucoptera but smooth, the valves thickened at the 
end but scarcely horned. " Seed-wing shortly decurrent on the upper margin of the 
nucleus." 
In the Key (p. 492) he contrasts it and H. vittata as follows : 
Fruit-beak straight or obsolete. 
Fruit with a broad gibbous base and scarcely distinct broad 
beak, without any crest ... ... 34, II. Pampliniana. 
Fruit ovoid, nearly smooth, with a broad smooth dark line 
down each suture 35. H, viiiata. 
