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and the result was one of the dignified and strictly botanically accurate “ statements 
of the case ” for which Brown was famous. Saligna, Latin, of or belonging to a 
“ Willow,” hence willow-like, usually taken as referring to the leaves of those 
species which have narrow pendulous leaves. 
Vernacular Names. —The name “ Willow-leaved Hakea ” was proposed by 
Sweet in his work nearly ninety years ago. It is not specially appropriate, but I 
cannot suggest a better. 
Near Bombala, N.S.W., it is locally called “ Foley Wood.” Following is the 
origin of this apparently absurd name, as given to me by Mr. W. Baeuerlen, then 
Collector, Technological Museum, Sydney, about 1890. 
A man of the name of Foley, working on the road between Tantawanglo 
Mountain and Bombala, used to make the handles of his picks, hammers, &c., of 
the wood of this species (and sometimes also of Lomatia longifolia), and finding 
them very good, he made some in his spare time, which were readily purchased by 
passing teamsters, &c. On account of their excellence, these handles soon came 
into local repute under the name of “ Foley handles,” and now the name is 
consistently applied to the wood and the tree itself. 
Synonyms. — Embothrium salignum , Andr. Bat. Rep., t. 215 (very good 
figure); Conchium salignum, Sm., in Trans. Linn. Soc., ix, 124; Embothrium 
salicifolium, Vent., Jar cl. Cels., t. 8 (with more narrow willow-like leaves than 
I remember to have seen) ; Conchium salicifolium, Gsertn. f., Fr. iii, 217. Hakea 
n.im.osoides, A. Cunn; Meissn. in DC. Prod, xiv, 416; H. florulenta, Meissn. in 
Hook , Kew Journ., vii, 116, and in DC. Prod, xiv, 416. 
Leaves. — I would invite attention to the fact that, especially as northern 
localities are reached, there is considerable variation in the leaves of this species, 
specimens from northern New South Wales and southern Queensland being shorter, 
broader, and blunter than the typical form figured. 
Flowers. —Sweet-scented, yet not strongly so, like many others of the 
Proteacese. 
Fruit .—Mr. W. Baeuerlen once informed me that the winged seed of 
Jlakeas afford a convenient means of determining species; they can readily be 
mounted on slides. All systematic botanists more or less carefully describe them, 
but it requires further observations, with large series, before we are justified in 
saying that they can be used for “determining” species. 
Timber. — A free working, flesh-coloured timber; has not much figure. It 
requires careful seasoning, and is sometimes disfigured with borers. 
I have already referred to it under “Vernacular Names.” It is usually so 
small a plant that it is not in strictness a timber tree, but it is useful for the 
manufacture of small articles where toughness is required. 
