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41. Eriostemon microphyllnsy F. Muell. ; dwarf; branches asperous; 

 branchkts thinly covered with stellate hairs 3 leaves coriaceous, crowded, 

 much spreading, ovate or cordate-orbicular, scabrous, with recurved 

 apex, on short petioles; flowers several together, terminal, glandulose; 

 segments of the calyx triangular-ovate, nearly smooth ; filaments as long 

 as the corolla, glabrous, gradually tapering towards the apex} appen- 

 dages of the anthers exceedingly small; style glabrous. 



Hab. On the low coast ranges of Spencer's and St. Vincent's Gulf, 

 but rare. 



PL Hiig. p. 15). 



vtimdifolkis 



mUebmudii 



oblong, ovate or heart-shaped, truncate or shortly bifid at the top, with 

 recurved, serrate, or entire margins, smooth on both aides, or somewhat 

 scabrous on the surface ; corymbs terminal ; sepals minute, deltoideo- 

 ovate ; filaments nearly as long as the petals, smooth as well as the 

 style; anthers iuappendiculate ; carpels obliquely ovate, rostellate ; seeds 

 even, and somewhat shining. — Fhehalium hilohum, Lindl. in Mitchell's 

 Third Exped. ii. 178. 



long, imper* 



w 



Var, a, brevifolius ; diffuse ; leaves ovate or cordate, 2- 

 fectly toothed, or with their margins entire. 



Hab. On the rocky banks of rivulets in the Yictoria Ranges. 



Var. yS, lonffifolius; strictly upright; leaves oblong, serrate, u, 

 of an inch long. 



William 



5000 feet. 



This highly ornamental plant forms a connecting link between PJie- 

 balium and Eriostemon, It might almost be considered as a genus dis- 

 tinct from both, and South Australian specimens have been under 



Hillebrandia 



imladca. 



angnstifolia 



covered with stellate hair, approximate, oblong-linear, blunt, on short 

 petioles, with revolute margins, at length glabrescent, scabrous ; corymbs 



terminal 



hairy 



filaments smooth, surpassing in length the narrow-lanceolate petals ; 



♦ Is Fhehalium phj/licoides , Sieb. — Ed. 



