Tas. 6445. 
LASIOPETALUM BAvERI. 
Native of Southern Australia. 
Nat. Ord. SrercuLiacEm.—Tribe LastoPeTALE&, 
Genus Lastoretatum, Smith ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 228). 
LastoperaLum Baueri; carno-tomentosum, ramulis gracilibus, foliis oppositis 
suboppositis et 3-nis subsesillibus] inearibus obtusis coriaceis marginibus 
recurvis, floribus parvis in racemis brevibus recurvis paucifloris dispositis, 
bracteis viridibus calyce ter brevioribus, calyce late campanulato infra 
medium 5-fido, lobis triangularibus subacutis extus tomentosis intus puberulis 
y. glabratis, petalis minutis obovatis, filamentis anthera lanceolata apicem 
versus 2-rimosa brevioribus, ovario dense stellatim tomentoso, stylo ima basi 
pubescente. 
L. Baueri, Steetz in Plant. Preiss. vol. ii..p. 339; F. Mueller, Pl. Vict. vol. i. 
p. 142; Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. i. p. 263. ° 
A very elegant little greenhouse shrub, covered profusely 
with pearly white flowers, to which no drawing on white 
paper can do justice. It belongs to a large and peculiarly 
Australian genus, embracing twenty species, which is 
confined to the extra-tropical regions of the continent, across 
which it extends from east to west. Of these some are 
rather handsome shrubs, as the ZL. macrophyllum, Graham, 
(Tab. 3908), but most of them partake of the dusty hue of so 
many of the plants of the dry climate of Australia. 
L. Baweri was raised from seeds sent to the Royal 
Gardens by Baron Sir Ferdinand Mueller in 1868, and flowers 
annually in spring on the shelves of the temperate House ; 
it has a wide range in its native continent, from the Blue 
Mountains in New South Wales, to Victoria and South 
Australia. 
Descr. A slender much-branched shrub, two to three feet 
high, with erect twiggy branchlets, covered everywhere with 
minute stellate pubescence, which turns of a rusty brown 
colour when dry. Leaves very shortly petioled, opposite, 
AuGcusT Ist, 1879. 
