No. 175. 
Hakea dactyloides, Cav. 
A Hakea. 
(Family PROTEACE^.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Hakea. (See Part XLYI, p. 105.) 
Botanical description. —Species, H. dactyloides, Cavanilles, Anal. Hist. Nat., i, 
215, t. 12; leones , vi, 535 (1801). 
A tall shrub with erect branches, the young shoots usually silky, the adult foliage rarely retaining 
more or less of pubescence, usually quite glabrous. 
Leaves from linear-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute or scarcely obtuse, tapering into a short 
petiole, falcate oblique or straight, 2 to 4 inches long, rigid, prominently triplinerved, smooth 
between the nerves, or rarely in the broader leaves a few irregular veins forming almost one 
or two additional longitudinal nerves. 
Flowers very small and numerous in axillary clusters or short racemes, the villous rhachis 1 to 
1£ lines long. 
Pedicels silky-hairy, 1 to 1| lines long. 
Perianth glabrous, the tube about 1 line long, revolute under the globular limb, 
Torus small, nearly straight. 
Gland small. 
Ovary shortly stipitate; style short, with an erect stigmatic cone. 
Fruit f to 1 inch long, \ to f inch thick, smooth or slightly rugose, with a very small straight 
beak. 
Seed-wing narrowly decurrent along the upper margin only of the nucleus, (B.F1. v, 524.) 
Bentham (toe. cit.) speaks of some of C. Stuart’s New England specimens as 
“ wi.li more rigid almost pungent narrow leaves, approaching those of H. ulicina, 
hut with silky pedicels.” 
At L (plate 179) I have figured a narrow-leaved form from Emmaville, 
which is probably very similar to C. Stuart’s specimen. This form is unusual and 
appears worthy of a name; I therefore designate it var. angustifolia. 
SyilOliyillS .—Banlsia dactyloides , Gaertner, He Fructibus, vol. 1, 221, 
t. 47, f. 2. The figure of the fruits is an excellent one, and was depicted from a 
Sir Joseph Banks’ specimen, Banksia oleifolia, Salisbury, Prod. 51. 
Concilium dactyloides , Vent. Jard. de la Malmaison , t. 110 : also Smith in 
Trans. Linn. Soc., ix, 123. 
Concilium nervosum , Bonn, Cant. 21, hut Hakea dactyloides in the later 
editions. 
