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HAKEA linearis. 
Linear-leaved Hakea. 
— 
Linnean Class and Order. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Orders PROTEACE, Brown Linn. trans. 10. p. 46. 
Tribus II. Frucrus peuiscens.—A. UNILOCULARIS. 
HAKEA. Supra fol. 27. 
Sect. III. Folia omnia plana.—A. Folia aliqua v. omnia dentata v. incisa. 
H. linearis, foliis lanceolato-linearibus spinuloso-pauci-dentatis. integerrimisque ave- 
niis impunctatis, ramis pedunculoque communi glabris, fasciculis terminalibus 
axillaribusque, capsulis bicalcaratis compressiusculis. Brown. Linn. trans. 10. 
p-183. Prodr.1. p.384. 
Hakea linearis, Rem, et Schult. syst.3.p.423. Spreng. syst.1.p.479, Swt. hort. brit. 
p. 349. 

A handsome bushy evergreen Shrub: branches rather slen- 
der, smooth and glossy, tinged with purple, nodding a little 
towards the points. Leaves sessile, alternate, lanceolately linear, 
flat, smooth, not punctate, terminated with a sharp spine, some 
quite entire, but the greater part toothed on each side with a 
few distant red spiny teeth, of a i a green colour, sometimes 
slightly glaucous, red at the base. Lowers white, slightly scent- 
ed like Hawthorn, in many flowered fascicles, both axillary and 
terminal, at the base of which are some deciduous, ovate, con- 
cave, blunt bractes, that are generally dropped off, before the 
expansion of the flowers. Peduncles smooth. Pedicles in pairs, 
smooth and glossy, white. Perianthium of four nearly equal 
leaflets, the two lower ones rather longest, spathulate, with hol- 
low points, which are reflexed. Stamens 4, inserted in the 
hollow points of the perianthium. Ovariwm smooth and glossy. 
Style smooth, white, reflexed at the point. Stigma a little ob- 
lique, dilated at the base, the point convex, enclosed in the 
hollow points of the perianthium before expansion. 
Our drawing of this pretty Shrub, was made in September 
last, at the Nursery of Mr. Mackay at Clapton, where it flow- 
