Illbhertia.'] II. dilleniace.e. 33 



rigid, whitish, but without hairs or asperities. Flowers solitary, or 2 or 3 

 together at the ends of the branches, nearly sessile, surrounded l)y a few bracts 

 like the sepals, but smaller,- Sepals 3 to 4 lines long, densely ^clothed with 

 long golden hairs. Petals broad. Stamens 15 to 20. Caq)els 2.— Oc/^ro- 

 lada Drummmdi, Turcz. iu Bull. Mosc. 1849, ii. 4. 



W 



Drummo7id, Mh Coll. n, 110. 



§ 4. Fasciculate. — Carpels glabrous. Ovules 2 to 6. No starainodia. 

 Leaves narrow-linear, convex below, the margins not recurved. Flowers ses- 

 sile or nearly so, but Avithout the broad brown bracts of the Bracteatw. 



41. H. procumbens, DO. Syst Veg. i. 427. Diffuse or prostrate and 

 much branched, resembling in habit some of the varieties of H. fascicnlata, 

 ^^th which F. Mueller unites it ; but the leaves are broader, the larger ones 

 above \ in. long and 1 line broad, glabrous or rarely hairy, the flow^ers much 

 larger, the sepals 4 to 5 lines long, broadly membranous, the stamens at least 

 20, and the carpels 4 or 5, with almost always 6 ovules in eaclx. — Dillniia 

 procumhens, Labill. PI. N ----..- ^^ ..... ^ .• i 



Parad. Lond. under n, 73. 



Victoria. Albert river, Gipps' Land, F. Mneller. 



II. angustifi 



asmania- R, Brown ; abundant ia Q{)cn heathy places, /, Z>. Hooker. 



H 



Stems erect, 



procumbent or prostrate. Leaves very narrow-linear, clustered and crowded, 

 yo 3 lilies or rarely \ in. long, hirsute with soft rather spreading hairs, or 

 at length glabrous, obtuse, or scarcely pointed, the margins never revolute or 

 i^ecnn-ed, but rather turned upwards so as to leave the under surfiice convex 

 ^^ith the promiuent midrib. Flowers sessile, on very sliort leafy shoots along 

 tlie branches, with 2 or 3 small sepal-like bracts at" their base. Sepals 2 to 

 ^ff l^ng, broadlv ovate, membranous at the edge, the outer ones narrower 

 aatl less obtuse. Petals obcordate. Stamens usually 8 to 12, without sta- 

 ^modia. Carpels usually 3, glabrous, with 2 erect ovules in each.— Hook. f. 

 l\ -lasm. i. 13 ; m angustifoUa (partly), F- Muell. PI. Vict. i. 18 ; //. f/;;- 



ook. Ic. PL t. 267, not R. Br-i //. prostrata. Hook. Journ. Bot. i. 



Iturandm cawforomia, Sieb. in Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 191 ; H. cam- 



^y A. Gray, Bot. Amer. ExpL Exped. i. 21- 



- "Wales. Port Jackson, R. Broion, Sieher, n. 14f>, and Fl, Mixt, n. 50G, ami 



'•ia. Port Phillip, iZ. Brown ; saud ridges, heathy groiiud, and dry, barren places 

 . it tlie colony, F. MueUer. . r -n 



nooke^^"^'^^' ^^^^^^^^t tluougLout the colony, ascending to 2000 or 3000 ft., ./. B. 



V" ^^^*^^'a^ia. Extending as far as Spencer's Gulf, F. Mueller and others, 

 the m^ ''''•''^'if^^^^' Stems prostrate, the habit soxnetiuies nearly that of ff. hneans, but 



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others, 

 Vict 



thron " 



o 



*Hd uJ ^^^^'«- very noary ail over with very short, stin uairs. j^aves ^ lu ^ ...^^-, .-....^. 



W 2 T*^'^*l than in the ordmary fonn. Flowers leinnnating loosely-leaved branches, 



the spn r • Peduncnlate above the last leaf. Flowers as in the common form, except that 



The't^ ''•^' "^""^^ ^^^'^ ^^^ the carpels usually 4-ovulate. S. .Australia, AiAerslone 



'le^pecies issaid, in PI. Preiss. ii 236, to have been found in York district, ^\ . Australia. 



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