380 SWAN RIVER PLANTS. 
speaking they are not so, for they soon become detached from 
the pedicel, although from being united and as it were sheath- 
ing the pedicel, they cannot fall off till the flower itself does. 
Endlicher says the bracteoles are free from each other, 
but overlap “inferne altera exterior interiorem arcto am- 
plexu retinens, ita ut prima fronte connate videantur, sed 
revere distincte, pérsistentes;" they appear to us truly con- 
nate so far as the middle. What Dr Lindley describes as 
** antheris appendice bicorni auctis," seems to be the connec- 
tivum bent down over the front of the anther and divided 
into two subulate segments; this structure occurs more or 
less conspicuously in all the species both of Chrysorrhóe, 
and Verticordia, although usually the deflexed horns appear 
to cohere with the sides of the connectivum, forming two 
lateral ridges, as may be seen at the apex of the anther, (f. 5 
of our plate of C. serrata;) the same is exhibited in Dr Lind- 
ley's figure 3 of C. nitens; in his representation of Verticordia 
insignis (fig. a, 2), they are short and blunt. 
Tas. XIV. Fig. 1. Leaf; f. 2. Flower-bud; f. 3. Ex- 
panded flower; f. 4. Fertile stamens, front and back view; 
J. 5. Sterile stamen :—magnified. gie = 
to^ eee d Luorskya. Schauer. na 
~-~ Calycis tubus oblongus 5-costatus omnino coheerens ; 
~ limbus patulus 5-lobus, lobis brevibus scariosis obtusis. Petala — 
5, calycis limbum longe excedentia, decidua, sestivatione - 
imbricata. Stamina insequalia, corolla breviora, numero 
.. indefinita (plura quam 10) omnia fertilia; filamenta capil- - 
— laria; anthere subglobosee, dorso medio inserta. - Stylus fili- — 
. - formis, imberbis, stamina superans. Stigma punctiforme. 
~ Fructus maturus; Pericarpium capsulare tubo calycis arcte - 
adnatum idemque 5-costatum. Semen 1 oblongum, erectum» 
ricarpii totam fere cavitatem implens ejusque costas 
hinc pariter 5-costatum; integumentum. tenuissime 
eum: embryo orthotropus semini conformis; 
