414 FLORA OF VAN DIEMAN’S LAND. 
this Genus has lately been sent by Mr James Drummond 
from the Swan River settlement. 
BoMBacEz. Kunth. 
1. Plagianthus sidoides, Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 3396.—Comp. 
Bot. Mag. l. c. p. 975.—P1. Lampenii, Lindl. in Miscellaneous 
Notices to v. xxiv. of Bot. Register, p. 22.—Sida discolor, 
Bot. Journ. l. c.—Mr Gunn (n. 452), Mr Lawrence (n. 227). 
Mr Gunn remarks that this plant is almost strictly dice- 
cious, and that its bark was used in the earlier times of the 
colony as cordage, and called Currajong. 
BvrTrNERIACEX. Br. 
1. Lasiopetalum discolor; foliis breviter petiolatis cordatis 
ovatis obtusissimis supra pubescentibus subtus albo-tomen- 
tosis, ramis petiolis calycibusque ferrugineo-tomentosis, cymis 
parvis capitatis. Hook. in Comp. Bot. Mag. p.276.—Mr Gunn 
(n. 551). 
Leaves much broader than in the following species, and 
white underneath. ' a 
2. L. dasyphyllum, Sieber, Pl. exsicc. Nove Hollandie (n. ua 
240). = 
Var. @. foliis minoribus, plerumque valde obtusis mee 
que cordatis, superne ferrugineo-virescentibus, inferne argen- 
teo-tomentosis, presertim ad nervos punctis stellatis rubris — 
notatis, petiolis foliisque junioribus rubro-tomentosis, fasci- 
culis florum multo minoribus. : 
Mr Gunn (n. 551), (1831).— First discovered by Mr Back- 
house at the base of two hills called “the Sisters,” between —— 
Rocky Cape and Table Cape. It grows there amongst dwarf ve 
^ . Banksias. It was sent by Mr Gunn as the L. discolor, Hook, 
= but i is a very different species, and apparently the L. dasy- T. 
um, Sieber; the leaves in his and our specimens vary - 
"The var. a. has been received from King George's - 
ected by Mr Baxter. It may be the L, rubigi- 
inningham, in . Field's ENS. p. 944. em = 
