collector, and a describer of the vegetable products of his 

 adopted continent ; it has a wide range in Australia, from the 

 interior of New South "Wales to Melbourne and Port 

 Phillip. 



Descb. A small shrub, with a stout woody stock, and 

 numerous spreading slender leafy branches, all parts more or 

 less pubescent, hairy, or even tomentose. Leaves scattered, 

 three-quarters to one and a quarter inch long, sessile, spreading, 

 linear or linear-subulate, long accuminate, with recurved 

 margins, strict or rather nexuose, sometimes almost acicular 

 rigid and pungent, pale green. Racemes terminal and on 

 short lateral shoots, few flowered, peduncled, recurved or 

 pendulous; peduncle one half-inch long, slender; pedicels 

 one quarter-inch long, spreading. Perianth bright red, half to 

 three-quarters inch long ; tube short, very gibbous, truncate 

 at the base, suddenly contracted below the strongly recurved 

 short oblique limb, which has very short segments, within 

 tomentose below the middle. Torus straight ; gland thick, 

 semicircular. Ovary sessile, villous on one side ; style very 

 long and stout ; stigma lateral. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Flower; 2, the same with the perianth laid open; 3, vertical, and 4, 

 transverse section of ovary ; 5 and 6, leaves : — all enlarged. 



