HAKEA ferruginea.
Rusty-stemmed Hakea.
Linnean Class and Order. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Natural Order. PROTEACEÆ. Brown Linn. trans. 10. p. 46.
Tribus II. F ructu9 dehiscens.—A. Unilocularis.
HAKEA. Supra fol.-43.
Sect. III. Folia omnia plana.
H. feri'ugineay foliis sessilibus elliptico-oblongis triplinervibus mucronatis margine car-
tilagineis crenulatis : adultis glabris : junioribus ramulisque dense ferrugineo-to-
mentosis, bracteis deciduis striatis, periantbiis glabris.
A stout growing bushy evergreen Shrub : branches erect or
a little spreading, flexuose, clothed with a dense wool when youno-,
but that wears off by age. Leaves sessile, or sometimes with a
very short footstalk, elliptically oblong, bluntish, but terminated
with a short 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 become
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. Perianihium 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. Ovarium smooth,
pedicled. Style smooth, the points slightly reflexed. Stigma
club-shaped, enclosed in the points expansion. of the perianthium before
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 description
that agrees with it; it is nearest related to H. elliptica, VOL. i. n