56 : NEW GENERA OF W. AUSTRALIAN PLANTS. 
leaving eight scars round the throat of the calyx. The genus will stand 
near Ceratopetalon, Sm. 
Myrracea, Sec. Leptospermez. 
10. CHEYNIA, J. Drum.—Flores axillares, solitarii, pedicellati, basi bi- 
bracteolati. Calycis tubus cylindricus, supra ovarium longe produc- 
tus, fauce annulo carnoso auctus; limbus quinquepartitus, laciniis 
leviter imbricatis patentibus. Petala 5, annulo calycis inserta, ob- 
ovata, decidua. Stamina plurima, cum petalis subeequilongis inserta, 
inzqualia, libera; filamenta subulata; anthere adnate, introrse, 
longitudinaliter dehiscentes, connectivo gibboso. Ovarium adnatum, 
5-loculare, loculis multiovulatis. Stylus filiformis, exsertus; stigma 
capitatum. Capsula . . . —Fruticulus multiceps, decumbens, ra- 
mosissimus, ramis majoribus prostratis, ramulis erectis confertis Jolio- 
sis; foliis minutis ericoideis oppositis tetrastichis rigidis pellucido- 
punctatis ciliatis mueronulatis carinatis ; floribus speciosis coccineis. 
Cheynia pulchella, J. Drum, 
Has. Northern districts Named by Mr. Drummond in honour of 
Mr. and Mrs. George Cheyne, of Cape Riche, to whom “he is under 
more obligations for assistance in his botanical pursuits than he can 
easily repeat.” —J. D. in litt. 
DicnRAsTYLEJX, MS. (inter Verbenaceas et Cordiaceas media?) 
11. Dicrastyuis, J. Drum.—Calyx 5-partitus, foliolis linearibus extus 
plumoso-lanatis. Corolla gamopetala, hypogyna, infundibuliformis, 
regularis, 5-fida, laciniis zequalibus erecto-patentibus. Stamina 5, 
.. eorolle laciniis alterna, fauce inserta, exserta; filamenta filiformia ; 
anthere didyme, breves, supra basin insertz, longitudinaliter dehis- 
centes. Ovarium disco carnoso insidens, liberum, biloculare ; ovula 
.. in loculis gemina, collateralia, placentze axillari affixa. Stylus to- 
 mentosus, profunde bifidus, vix exsertus; stigmata simplicia. Fruc- 
tus . . . -—Suffrutiees v. herbe lanate, ramose; folis oppositis 
subsessilibus integris; inflorescentia corymboso-paniculata vel subcapi- 
tata terminali. 
= l. Dicrastylis fulva, J. Drum. ; erecta, tomento stellatim ramoso et plu- 
. moso fulvo, foliis joinain ovalibus sessilibus integerrimis, panicula 
repetite trichotoma, floribus longiuscule pedicellatis, 
. HaB. Northern districts. | 
