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ManaMtlins.l xii. pittospoke.e. 117 



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1. M. procumbens, Benlh, A low, prostnile or suberecfc, much 

 oranclied shrub, the branches soziietimes flcxuose and nearly 1 ft. louij, but 

 usually much shorter, glal^rous or slightly pubescent. Leaves crowded and 

 sessile, in the uoi'tliern varieties usually linear or liiicar-euneate, pointed, en- 

 tire or rarely toothed at tlie top, 4 to 6 lines long, rigid, with recurved mar- 

 gins ; in the southei'u forms usually shorter, more cuneate or even obovate or 

 ovate, and often toothed. Flowers small, white or tinged with red, sjDlitary 

 or 3 or 3 together, tcrniiual or appearing axillary from the shortness *of the 

 flowering shoots, the pedicels 1 to 3 lines long and always shorter than the 

 leaves at the time of flowering, i-athcr longer and recurved when in fruit. 

 Sepals lanceolate-linear, very pointed. Petals about 3 lines long or smaller, 

 spreadiiig from below the iniddle. Filaments dilated io the middle. Ovules 

 6 to 8 in each cell of the ovary. Style sjiort. Capsule truncate, 3 lines 

 broad, and not rpiite so long. Seeds usually 3 or 4 in eacJi cell, ovoid-reni- 

 fonn, transverse and laterally attached, deeply wrinkled. — Pittoi^porum pro- 

 cumbem and P. nanmn^ Ifook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 275 ; Bio^saria procumbens^ 

 Pntterl. Syn. Pittosp. 20; Hook. f. Fl. TasniM. 39; B. diosmoides, PutterL 

 1-c. (from the description, I have not seen Sieber's n. 554) ; B. Sluartiana^ 

 ■K-latt, in Linmna, xxviii. 568; Rhfjlidosponc^t procumlJeus^ F. MuelL 1st 

 Gfeu. Hep. 10; PL Vict, i. 75 ; Campyhmthera ericoides, Lindl. in Mitch. 

 Three Exped. ii. 277. 



N. S, Wales. Fivqucut aLout Port Jackson and in tlic Blue Mountains, A, and R. 

 ^nnnimjham, and others ; extending northward to Clarence river, Beckler^ and southward to 

 Iwofold Hay, F, Mnrfler, 



Victoria. Ban-en ibrcst ]'idijjes and heath ground, not generally connnon although no- 

 ticed in many localities, more frequent in the eastern part of (5ipps' Land, ¥. Mueller, 



Tasmania. Couuauu in sandy places throughout the island, /. D. Hooker. 



2. M, microphyllus, Benth, Habit of the smaller shorter-leaved 

 forms of J/, procanihms, Stems apparently pi'ocnmbent, branched, under 6 



in. long, more or kas hirsute. Leaves crowded, ft'^m ol)Ovate to oblong, ob- 



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f^iid apparently darker-colonred thaiiln J/, pwcnmbeus. Petals about 4 hnes 

 long, spreading from a little beloAV the nnddle. Filauicuts veiy sliglitly 

 dilated. Ovules at least 12 to each cell of the ovary. Style rather long. 

 Capsnle 3 lines long and not quite so broad. Seeds n\mcrous, smooth or 

 scarcely wrinkled, bnt not quite ripe in our specimen.— Oz/myjo/v/m nmrnphyU 

 hm, Turc;;, in Bull. :Mosc. 1S54, ii. 365 ; Marianflins r/if/tidos/jorus, F. Muell. 

 l^i-agm. ii. 145. 



W*. Australia, Brammond, o(h ColL n. 243; also Uerh, Mueller. 



3. M, villosus, Bmth. Apparently a low procumbent shrub, with 

 short, slightlv flcxuose, very hispid branches. Leaves rather crowded, 

 broadly ohovnte, \ to near f in. long, usually coarsely toothed, narrowed nito 

 a short ])etiole, softly villous on both sides, or becoming almost glabrous above 

 ^vhen old. Pedicels terminal or on very short si<le.brauches, solitary or 3 or 

 3 together, very short at tirst, and not 2 lines long when in fruit. Petals and 

 stamens not seen. Ovary glabrous, with a long style. Capsule about 4 hues 



