43. B. Lindleyana, Meissn. in Hook. Kew Journ. vii. 120, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 455. A shrub of 3 or 4 ft., differing slightly from B. Caleyi in the narrower serrate leaves and the flowers usually larger. Young shoots tomentose and villous, leafy branches hoary or almost glabrous. Leaves linear-lanceolate, serrate, tapering into a short petiole, 2 to 4 in. long, flat, slightly tomentose, reticulate and pitted underneath. Spikes very thick, ovoid-globular, about 4 in. long. Bracts woolly-tomentose with short obtuse points prominent above the bracteoles. Perianth glabrous, the tube nearly 1 in. long, the obtuse angular limb 3 to 4 lines. Style incurved, erect, the stigmatic end long, narrow and furrowed.
W. Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield, Drummond, 6th coll. n. 204.
44. B. elegans, Meissn. in Hook. Kew Journ. vii. 119 and in DC. Prod. xiv. 465. A small tree, the specimens at first sight closely resembling those of B. Candolleana, the leaves of the same size, with numerous broad pungent-pointed lobes, but divided only a little more than half way to the midrib, and the under surface pale or whitish with a minute tomentum, which almost conceals the veins, the smaller reticulations quite inconspicuous. Spikes globular, larger and more dense than in B. Candolleana. Perianth straight, fully 1 in. long, the tube minutely pubescent, the limb narrow, glabrous, fully 2 lines long. Style curved, erect, the stigmatic end fusiform and furrowed.
W. Australia. Valley of the Lakes, Hill river, Drummond, 6th coll. n. 200.
45. B. Candolleana, Meissn. in Hook. Kew Journ. vii. 118, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 465. A shrub with a creeping underground trunk and erect leafy stems of 1 to 2 ft., the flowering ones often short with few leaves, all minutely tomentose or glabrous. Leaves shortly petiolate, often 1 ft. long or more, divided to the midrib into numerous broad ovate-triangular contiguous segments, the larger ones scarcely above 4 lines long and broad, all pungent-pointed, flat, rigid, strongly veined and reticulate underneath. Spikes ovoid-globular, not surrounded by leaves, about 1½ in. long without the perianths, which are not so dense as in most species, straight, about 1 in. long, the tube slender, minutely pubescent or glabrous, the limb oblong, glabrous, striate, about 2 lines long. Style curved, erect; stigmatic end fusiform, sulcate. Capsules very prominent, hard, thick, tomentose, the projecting portion 2 in. long and 1½ in. broad, with a small lateral conical beak or persistent base of the style.—F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 58.
W. Australia. Dundagaran and Hill river, Drummond, 6th coll. n. 201.
Sect. 5. Isostylis.—Spikes reduced to depressed globular heads. Perianth-limb opening as soon as the limb, the style straight, not longer than the perianth, with a small stigmatic end.
46. B. ilicifolia, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 211, Prod. 396, Prot. Nov. 37. A tree attaining from 20 to 40 ft., or sometimes remaining shrubby and 8 to 10 ft. high, the branches tomentose and often hirsute
