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by a slight longitudinal furrow, the apex gradually pointed; umbels 
usuäily onlv 3-6-flowered almost glabrous; stalklets about as long as 
the small flowers; style glabrous; stigma lateral; fruit rather lar^e 
near y ovate, very turgid, outside densely verrucucular-rough except 
at the much compressed sligthly or not horned summit; seeds almost 
smooth, their membranous appendage imperfectly decurrent on one 
th / fu UrC Q eS ° f Shoalhaven-River and near tbe eastern tri- 
butanes of the Snowy-River, at elevations of nearly 4000 feet- W 
oaeuerlen. ’ 
A subalpine species. Leaves 3—5 inches long. Petals 1/4 — 1/3 inch 
long pale-coloured.. Ovary almost sessile, glabrous. Hypogynous f?land 
{hp rly a l 8qUare i' Ä Ult attainin S a len £ th of 1! /2 inches^the marfin of 
^ Shght K edged alon S the u PP er PO^ion. SeediTobfique- 
membr^e aSUnng ab ° Ut 1,3 mCh m length ’ shorter than the terminating 
Speeifieally named in recognition of kind support given by Mr 
LveL g %h ; , a sw e ’/ ff Bra f idw00 o d ' t0 , the oolÄr’s foca? botanic 
avels. rhis species differs from H. nodosa in much longer and never 
compressed leaves, in somewhat larger flowers fewer in each umhpl in 
Toi Ä D0 , t y^low petals, in big|er a nd stillTougher fäira n 1\" 
species b The a Wpfofw S oreoTer H - nodosa is always a low-lands 
^pecies ihe ieaves of H. Macraeana are much like those of H Persie- 
Th * 18 similar to that of H. propinqua, which species 
however has thicker, much shorter and more rigid leaves not unisnl 
cate beneath and also rougher seeds. S umsul- 
Hakea Persiehana. Arborescent; branchlets slender appressed- 
downy; leaves long thinly filiform, glabrescent, their apex Suallv 
downt d; flA° rymbs dense ’ cons P lcuou sly stalked; rachs a¥most velveU 
. ••V •? 1 wer j l ver J small; petals somewhat shorter than the stalklets 
Ä de 8llk J-downy: style almost glabrous; stigma hemispheric con ca ’ 
Äor,s q ütrw“p na V h ?P°F? 0 " 3 fland unilateral, adnate ;0 Tary 
l”o% tLTocleST*’ tetmmat| ng msrnbran, of tho aood not decrront 
In the vicinity of the Endeavour-River; W. Persieh 
rnJlTW a leD & th of seven inches, neither shinim? nor fur- 
rowed, the pointed apex easily wearing off. Peduncles generally about 
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fS■"",«» .f >1 .wo. »ÄSÖiÄ;. ,r. 
afoiv ° ad, i §! entl y convex, not seen quite ripe. As ree-ards thp 
same 6 locabtT 0 U ? ff rs - thls , s P eoies approaches H. pedunculata^from the 
same locality, difFenng however already much in the form of th» 
neariv "1 *,, h V 09 £ 0n °J the sti S Ma - *he last znen foned specfes is 
(Holtze) t0 H ' arb0rescens ' which «te»* t» Port Darwin 
not Jworthv° WI H g D6W l 0 n alltl ?T ° f sp , e , cies of this genus are particularlv 
oteworthy . H. enantha; Upper Ovens-River Mrs MU-mn U 
saligna; Illawarra, Camera.-H. nitida; near Eucla' J D Bat7- 
H. multilineata; sources of the Arthur-River Th Mnir’ iJ+ G ‘ 
Ks. ?• sss.»'s 
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