No. 171. 
Hake a eriantha, R Br. 
A Hakea. 
(Family PROTEACE^E.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Hakea. (See Part XLYI, p. 105.) 
Botanical description. —Species, H. eriantha, It. Brown, Supp. Primum, Prote- 
aceas Novas, p. 29 (1830). 
A tall shrub or small tree, the young shoots silky-pubescent, the adult foliage glabrous. 
Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, acute or with a callous point, tapering into a short petiole, vein¬ 
less except the scarcely prominent midrib, of a pale colour like those of H. saligna but 
rather thicker, 3 to 5 inches long. 
Flowers in axillary clusters, not very numerous. 
Pedicels silky-villous, 1 to 2 lines long. 
Perianth silky, the tube about 3 lines long, reflexed under the almost acute limb. 
Torus small. 
Gland prominent, semi-annular. 
Ovary shortly stipitate ; style not very long, with a large lateral stigmatic disk. 
Fruit about 1 inch long and under ^ inch broad, slightly incurved, rather smooth, with a short 
incurved or straight beak, very obscure when the fruit is quite ripe. 
Seed'Wing very shortly decurrent on the upper side only of the nucleus. (B.F1. v, 502.) 
Botanical Name. — Hakea, already explained (see Part XLYI, p. 106); 
eriantha, from two Greek words, erion, wool, and anthos, a flower, in reference to 
the woolliness or silkiness of the flowers. See figures b, c, d on Plate 175. 
Vernacular Names.—I know of none. 
Leaves. —The leaves are linear-lanceolate in the type, and figure k, Plate 
175, represents a leaf probably closely resembling it. It was collected by me in 
a locality near that of the type, which was collected by Eraser near the Hastings 
Biver. 
According to B.E1. v, 503, there is a specimen collected by Eraser at 
Mount Lindsay. We have more than one Mount Lindsay in New South Wales, 
but Mr. R. H. Cambage has collected the species at Mount Lindsay (4,300 feet), 
Nandewar Mountains, and most of the leaves are rather broader than described for 
the type. 
Most plants of the species have leaves about the size figured in the plate; in 
some parts of the State— c.g., on the Crawford River and Nundlc—the leaves arc 
shorter and broader. 
