the iuucrmoot of wliicli are however much smaller. Sepals ovate, villous 

 scarcely 2 lines long. Petals narrow and entire or very slightly obcortlate. 

 Stamens very few. Ovaries 2, pubescent, with 4, or very rarely only 2 ovul^ 

 in each. — Plearandra Jiirsuta, Hook. Comp. Bot. Maff. i- 273; llook. f- 

 PL Tasm. i. 17. 



Tasmania. Among stones in basaltic aoil, George Town and Ilobart Town, J- ^^ 

 Hooker^ Gunn^ and others. 



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26 II. dilleniacejj:. {lUhbertia, 



o^ TuUencea dapJuwides, and resembles also H. 7iitiday but is not so [glabrous. 

 Leaves narrow-oblong, mostly obtuse, with a short callous point, ^ to f in. 

 long, narrowed at the base, the margins slightly recurved, somewhat rusty, 

 with a minute tomentum underneath, glabrous and shining or scabrous above, 

 or occasionally bearing a few long hairs. Flowers terminal, or on very short 

 axillary branches, sessile within a tuft of floral leaves, which are mostly 

 longer than the flowei"S, except a few of the innermost, which are much shorter 

 and more hairy. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, fully 5 lines long, densely clothed 

 with long silky hairs. Petals broad, notched. Stamens about 16. Carpels 

 tairy, with 4 to 6 ovules in each. — Pleurandra bracteata, E. Br. in DC. Syst. 

 Veg. i. 415 ; Delcss. Ic. SeL i. t. 78. 



KT. S. "Whales- Port Jackson to tte Blue Mountains, R. Brown and othei's; Emu 

 Plains, A. Cunningham. 



21. H, sericeaj Beuth, A variable species Avhich sometimes scarcely 

 dilFers from H, bracteata^ except in being much more hairy and the leaves 

 more revolute on the margin, but is usually more diffuse or procumbent, softly 

 villous all over, with the floral leaves not much longer than the others. Leaves 

 rarely much above \ in. long, and in some varieties much shorter, obtuse, 

 with the margins much revolute, clothed ^vith stellate down, especially under- 

 neath, with longer hairs on the upper surface. Flowers sessile among crowded 

 floral leaves, as in the last two species. Sepals rather shorter and broader, 

 villous. Stamens usually 10 to 12. Carpels tomentose or villous, with 4 to 6 

 ovules in each. — Pleurandra sericea, E. Br. in DC. Syst. Veg. i. 416 ; Deless. 

 Ic. SeL i. t. 79 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. IG ; //. densi/lora, F. Muell. PI. Tict. 

 i. 15. Pleurandra clnerea^ B>. Br. in DC. 1, c. i. 417, is a slight variety with 

 shorter pubescence, uud shorter, more oblong leaves, the flowers often very 

 shortly pedicellate. 



Victoria. Port Pliillip, R. Brown ; sandy keathy places on barren scrubby ridi^cs, and 

 occasionally on rocky ranges from the Glcnelg to the Murray rivers, and thence to Port 

 Phillip, F, Mueller and others. 



Tasmania. Comraon on sandy soil, on the coast only, all round the island^ 7. -0- ) 

 Hooker, 



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I. Australia. Near Adelaide, Macartkur^ F. Mueller, 

 Var. densiflora. jrorc villous. Leaves, especially the floral ones, skorter. Stems usually 

 more procumbent.— P/^wr^zw^/z'-a; densiflora. Hook. f. in Journ. Bot. i. 245. The Tasma- 

 iiian specimens belong chiefly, but not entirely, to this variety, and a few of the Victorian 

 ones are referrible to it, j 



22. H. hirsuta, Bentli. A low, prostrate, densely branched species, | 

 with much smaller leaves and flowers than in any of the same section, resem- 

 bling soifie forms of II, fascicnlata, and shortly hirsute all over. Leaves . 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, 1^ to 2, or seldom 3 lines long, with revolute margms^ | 

 l^lowers axillary or terminal, sessile within loaves often as lon^ as the calyXt 



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