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HAKEA saligna. 
Willow-leaved Hakea. 
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Linnean Class and Order, TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 
Natural Order, PROTEACE®, Brown Linn, trans, 10, p, 46. 
Tribus IT. Fructus DEHISCENS.—A. UNILOCULARIS. 
HAKEA, Perianthium 4-phyllum, irregulare, foliolis seeundis; apicibns cavis 
staminiferis. Anthere immerse. Glandula hypogyna unica dimidiata, Ovarium pe- 
dicellatum, dispermum. Stigma subobliquum, e basi dilataté mucronatum. Folliculus 
unilocularis, ligneus, pseudo-bivalvis, loculo excentrico. Semina ala apicis nncleo 
longiore,—Frutices rigidi, quandoque Arbores mediocres, pilis dum adsint medio affixis ! 
Folia sparsa, in variis varia, nunc in eodem frutice diversiformia, Fasciculi v. Racemuli 
sepiiis axillares, in plerisque involucrati, squamis imbricatis, scariosis, cuducis, rudimenta 
ramulorum aliquando simul includentibus, ideoque potits pro gemma habendis, sed genus, 
extra tropicum saltem, a confinibus optimé distinguentibus, aliis notis in quibusdam vacil- 
lantibus, Pedicelli colorati, in racemosis geminati, paribus unibracteatis. Flores parvi, 
albi, v. ochroleuci. Pistillum glaberrimum, stylo subdeciduo. Folliculus parietibus in- 
crassatis. Semina atra, ravd cinerea. Brown prodr, p. 381, 
Sect, III. Folia omnia plana.—B, Folia omnia integerrima, 

H, suligna, foliis elongato-lanceolatis integerrimis uninervibus acutis apiculo sphace- 
lato omnibus ramulisque glaberrimis, capsulis axillaribus gibbosis: apice com- 
presso utringue carinato. Brown prodr, p. 385. 
Hakea saligna. Brown Linn, trans.10. p.385. Hort. Kew, ed, 2. v. 1. p.210, Salisb. 
in Knight’s prot. 108. Reem, et Schuit. syst. 3. p.423. Spreng. syst. 1. p. 479, 
Conchium salignum, Smith Linn. trans. 9. p. 124, 
Embothrium salignum. Andrews’ reposit. ¢. 215. 
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A handsome upright evergreen shrub; the one from which 
our drawing was made was about 12 feet high, and formed a 
handsome bush: branches erect or slightly spreading, cylindri- 
cal, smooth and glossy, the bark of a light brown colour. 
Leaves alternate, about four inches long, and half an inch 
- broad, lanceolate, acute, tapering towards the base, slightly un- 
dulate, flat, smooth on both sides, one-nerved, the points yel- 
lowish, soon turning brown, margins entire. Pedzoles short, flat 
on the upper side, and convex on the lower, smooth. Flowers 
white, very sweet-scented, the scent very like those of Hawthorn, 
in close umbel-like fascicles in the axils of the leaves. bractes 
ovate, obtuse, concave, fringed, soon turning brown and drop- 
ping off. Peduncles smooth, slender, nearly equal in length. 
Perianthium of four irregular leaflets, the points of which are 
revolute, the two back ones rather the shortest. Stamens 4, 
inserted in the hollow points of the perianthium. Ovariwm 
smooth, inflated. Sty/esmooth, longer than the leaflets, bent back- 
wards. Sigma convex, bent downwards, and enclosed in the 
points of the perianthium before its expansion. Capsule large, 
inflated, woody, rugged and tuberculate, keeled on both sides, 
