268 FLORÆ TASMANIÆ SPICILEGIUM. 
3 unc. diametro, carnosus, globosus, pedicello bracteato. 
Capsula parva, ad apicem calycis intra segmenta ejus im- 
mutata immersa, coriacea.— Species habitu forma magnitu- - 
dineque foliorum et fructus valde distincta. 
3. Pernettya (Perandra) Tasmanica, n. sp.; depressa, diva- 
ricatim ramosa, ramulis puberulis, foliis patulis elliptico- — 
lanceolatis acutis integerrimis v. obscure serrulatis, pedi- — 
cellis axillaribus basi 3-4-bracteolatis, antheris muticis, 
ovario disco 5-lobo cincto :—an genus proprium. 2 
Has. Hampshire Hills, Port Arthur, and Mount Welling- —— 
ton; Backhouse, Gunn. ; 
Fruliculis 2-3 unc. altus, ramosus, ramis vagis abbreviatis 
divaricatim ramulosis; ramulis sub lente puberulis. Folia 
2-3 lin. longa, coriacea, nitida, super concava. Pedicelli 
folio breviores, curvati, basi bracteis paucis imbricatis | 
cucullatis ciliatis suffulti. Calycis lacinie ovate, obtuse. — 
Corolla ovata, ore 5-dentato, dentibus subrecurvis. Stamina - 
10, inclusa, libera; filamentis puberulis, supra basin dila- : 
tatis, deinde filiformibus. Anthere parve, late oblongæ, 
apicibus muticis, poris magnis hiantibus dehiscentes. 
Discus inconspicuus, lobis obtusis filamentis alterna 
Ovarium 5-loculare ; ovulis plurimis, placentis ae 
affixis. Bacca depresso-sphaorica rubra, calyee imm: 
suffulta. 
Ab congeneribus differt antheris; muticis hise nomen » su | 
 genericum proposui Permis 6 Acorn: desti uti 
et. aynp compost 
“Han. ‘Top of Mount Wellir 
