HAKEA ferruginea. 
Rusty-stemmed Hakea. 
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Linnean Class and Order. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. PROTEACEAE. Brown Linn. trans. 10, p. 46. 
Tribus II. Fructus DEHIscENS.—A. UNILOCULARIS. 
HAKEA. Supra fol. 43. 
Sect. III. Folia omnia plana. 

H, ferruginea, foliis sessilibus elliptico-oblongis triplinervibus mucronatis margine car- 
tilagineis crenulatis: adultis glabris : junioribus ramulisque dense ferrugineo-to- 
mentosis, bracteis deciduis striatis, perianthiis glabris. 
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A stout growing bushy evergreen Shrub: branches erect or 
a little spreading, flexuose, clothed with a dense wool when young, 
but that wears off by age. Leaves sessile, or sometimes with a 
very short footstalk, elliptically oblong, bluntish, but terminated 
with ashort horny mucro, triply-nerved, the nerves more or less 
branched, margins cartilaginous and reddish, notched here and 
there, or crenated, the notches very shallow; the young leaves 
clothed with a dense wool, which wears off by age, they then be- 
come quite smooth. flowers white, slightly fragrant, in close 
many-flowered tufts in the axils of the leaves. bractes ovate, 
acute, concave, striated, deciduous. Pedicles short, smooth and 
glossy. Perianthium of four irregular leaflets, reflexed at the 
points, smooth and glossy, two back ones shortest. Stamens 4, 
inserted in the hollow points of the leaflets. Ovariwm smooth, 
pedicled. Style smooth, the points slightly reflexed. Stigma 
club-shaped, enclosed in the points of the perianthium before 
expansion. 
Our drawing was taken last Summer from fine specimens 
communicated to us, from the collection of Robert Barclay, Esq. 
where it was raised from seeds received from New Holland; it 
appears to be a nondescript species, as we do not find any de- 
scription that agrees with it; it is nearest related to H. elliptica, 
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