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Baw Baw collectis) prorsus plana, late ovata, ad 4" longa et 92" 
lata. Pedicelli tenues, 3-23" longi, calyce igitur tam breviores 
quam longiores. Bracteolz» circiter 3^ longs. Petala alba v. paulo . 
rubella, 3-1" longa, cum lobis calycis haud distinete ciliolata. 
Stamina petalina sspe deficientia. Fructus Jeviter compressi, 
1-13" metientes, lobis calycis tabescentibus terminati. Semina 
livida, semirotundo-ovata, angulata, 1-1"longa. Embryo uncinato- 
clavatus ; cotyledones 1ninutissimze, semioblongz» ; radicula magna, 
eujus implicat: et attenuatze apici cotyledones incumbunt. 
B. stenophylla germine biloculato cum B. Gunniana convenit, 
aliis autem notis B. frutescenti simillima est, etsi jam antheris 
haud conspicue glanduligeris recedit. D. pulehella, quam ex 
authopsia nondum cognosco, secundum iconem in Mémoir. de la 
Société de Phys. et d'Histoir. Naturelle de Genéve, ix. tab. 13, 
staminibus 30—40 insignis est, habitu autem ad B. stenophyllam 
accedit. à 
Beckea diffusa. 
Sieber, in Cand. Prodr. iii. 930; B. alpina, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Expedit. 
ii. 177; Annal des Scienc. Natur. xv. 57 ; B. affinis, J. Hook. in Hook. 
Icon. Plant.284; B. thymifolia, J. Hook. l. c. ; B. prostrata, J. Hook. l. c. ; 
Euryomyrtus diffusa, Schauer, in Linnz»a, xvii. 239 ; E. thymifolia, 
Schauer, L c. ; E. alpina, Schauer, in Walp. Repert. ii. 921 ; E. parviflora, 
F. M. sec. Miq. in Nederl. Kruidk. Arch.; E. Stuartiana, F. M. 1. c. 
Procumbens, foliis planis lineari- v. oblongo-lanceolatis rarius 
linearibus v. oblongis muticis enerviis, pedunculis unipedicellatis, 
bracteolis persistentibus ad basin pedicelli sitis. rhombeo-ovatis 
rotundisve, calycis tubo fere hemisphzrico, lobis deltoideo-semi- 
orbieularibus corolla fere triplo brevioribus, staminibus 10 raro 5, 
filamentis erassiuscule lineari-subulatis anthera duplo triploque 
longioribus, antherarum loeulis rima longitudinali dehiscentibus, 
connectivo glandulam crassam gerente, capswla depresso-globosa 
pene semiexserta, loculis 2—4-spermis, seminibus renatis fuscis 
granulato-scabridis. 
In permultis locis Tasmaniz; rarior in Australia continentali ; 
e.g. in summitatibus montium alpinorum v. subalpinorum saxati- 
libus Mount William, Mount Buller, Mount Wellington, Mount 
Barkly, Mount Ligar; in locis satis depressis ad Fryer's Creek, 
in vicinia portus Jacksonii, ad urbem Newcastle ad flumen 
Hastings. 1 
Fruticulus distanter v. copiose et sepe patentim ramosus, diffusus 
v. prostratus v. subinde erectiusculus. Folia breviter v. brevis- 
sime petiolata, magis minusve acuta, passim omnino obtusa, longi- 
tudine 13-41", latitudine 3-1", neque regulariter imbricata, nee 
distinete "nervata, nonnunquam paulo striolata, aut glabra aut 
rarius scabriusculo-puberula. Pedunculi 3-2" longi, solitarii, basi 
-bractea unica ovato- v. lineari-lanceolata 3-3" metiente suffulti. 
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