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The specimens I have seen are bad, and the petals shrivelled or fallen ofT, the carpels nearly 

 ripe. 



j 3. C, glomerosa, Beiith, Stems virgate, usually glabrous, except 



' about the floral leaves. Leaves linear, obtuse, or tnxncate, mostly f to 1 in. 



loug, glabrous, tlie margins flat or recurved, but not revolute, narrowed below 

 the middle, and slightly enlarged and stem-clasping at the base, Flowers 

 nearly or quite sessile, usually surrounded by 3 or 3 ovate glabrous bracts, 

 Bometimcs passing into the sepals. Calyx clothed with long, silky, or woolly 

 hau's, or sometimes quite glabrous, the outer sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, 3 

 to 4 lines long, the inner broad and more obtuse. Petals broad, notched. 

 Stamens in 5 bundles of 4 to 6 each, often with a free one inside. Carpels 

 5, glabrous, 1-ovuIate. Seeds brown, with a short, entire, or lobcd ariilus. 



W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond; Port Gregory, Oldfield, 

 var. sulsericea. More silky ; stamens fewer, two of the clusters reduced to single 

 stamens, and carpels 3 ouly. — Swau River, Bnanmond, 



4. C. teretifolia, Tnrcz. in Ball. Mosc, 1849, ii. 7. Perfectly glabrous. 

 Branches slender, erect, virgate. Leaves heath-like, often clustered, linear, 

 semiterete, slender, and rather acute, usually 2 or 3 lines, but in some specimens 

 i in. long, the margins scarcely or not' at all revolute. Flowers small, 

 sessile in the clusters of leaves. Sepals ovate, membranous, coloured, scarcely 

 2 lines long, with 2 or 3 short orbicular bracts. Petals broadly obovate, 

 entire. Stamens in 3 clusters of about 3 each, often less united than in most 

 Candolleas, and 2 single stamens. Carpels 3, glabrous, l-ovulak\ The general 

 aspect is veiy much that of the small glabrous-leaved specimens of IFMertia 

 fascicuJata, but the stamens and ovaries are very iiiS^rent—Plenrandra 

 enervia, DC. Syst. Veg. i. 421?, Stcud. in PL Prciss. i. 264; P. hmignosta 

 ^^^P-hibbertioides, Steud. I c. i. 265. 



W. Australia. King Georire's Sound, Harvey, OUJleld; ironstone gravel of Ihe 

 IJarhng Hills, Lmmmovd, \st Co/L, also 4th ColL n, 124; sandy places, riantageriet dis- 

 tnct and along places on the N. side of Mount Bakcnvell, Freiss, n. 2155, 2U\ 21G4, and 

 -^^V2; and eastward to Phillips river, 1 



Marwell.—l have been utuible^to find autheatic 



'um. now dis- 



persed. 



In one specimen from the East River flats, Stokes' Inlet, IhuweU, the leaves are not so 

 Slender, very obtuse or recurved at the top, and grooved underneath by the slightly rccurveJ 

 iiiargins, bat the flowers are precisely the same. 



5- C. desmophylla, 2?£'«^/i. Stems rigid, divaricately branchc(],_glabrou5, 

 or the young ones loosely pubescent. Leaves densely clustered, Imcar, ob- 

 J'se, mostly about \ in. long, the marg-ins closely revobite, rather dilated at 

 the base, clothed with long, loose, spreading hairs, to about the muklle, 

 glalJrous, smooth, and almost terete above. Flowers sessile in the clusters 

 much shorter than all except the innermost leaves, and immediately surrounded 

 »y a few imbricate membi-anous bracts, with brown tips, passing uito similar 

 out longer sepals, of which the iimcrmost arc 2 J lines long and scarious 

 r^thout the brown tips. Totals obovate, obtuse. Stamens in 3 bundles ot 

 ^ or 4 eaeh, and 2 single ones. Carpels 3, glabrous, 1-ovidate. 



• Australia. Drummo/id ; Murchisou river, Oldjield. 



^- C. helianttemoides, Tarcz. in Bull. Mo^c. 1845), ii. 8. Stem 



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