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8oUya,~\ xii. PiTTosPoiiE.i:. 127 



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i in. long, l^ to 2 lines broad, tapering at botli ends. Seeds globular, much 

 fewer than in S. JieleropJtylla, 



in S. parviflura. 



Solhja hrnmrnondi, Morren, and S. salicifoVia^ Marnock, published in gardening works, 

 not in our botanical libraries, are uukuown to me, but are most probably garden varieties of 

 B, heteroplujUa, 



9. CHEIEANTHEEA, A. Cunu. 



Petals spreading from nearly the base, obovate-oblong. Anthers longer 

 than the filaments, all tiu'ned towards one side, opening by two pores at the 

 top. Ovary 2-celled with a subnlate style. Capsule oblong, hard, opening 

 bculicidally in 2 valves, the valves also splitting septicidally. Seeds nearly 

 globular. — Brandies flexuose or twining. Leaves narrow. Flowers in ter- 

 minal corymbs or cymes, or drooping from terminal solitary pedicels. 



The geuus is limited to Australia. 



Flowers several, corymbose. 



Leaves flat or concave. Sepals lanceolate. Anthers not twice as 

 long as the filanicuts, and not attaining half the length of the * 

 petals I.e. lineatis. 



Leaves thick or terete. Sepals narrow. Anthers fully twice as 



long as the filaments and exceeding the half of the petals . . 2. C.fiUfoUa, 

 Flowers solitary, on slender terminal pedicels. 



Leaves linear-terete or involute . , • %, C. vohhilis. 



Leaves linear, flat, or revolute 4. C.parvifora. 



A low glabrous 

 to 1 ft., or rarely 



1. C. linearis, J. Cunn. in Bot. Reg. under 1. 1719. 

 shrub or undershrub, with erect twiggy branches of 6 in. 



longer. Leaves linear, acnte or rather obtuse, i to H i^^-^ ^"^ ^^^^^^ ^ j^- 

 long, entire or minutely toothed, flat, and \ to 1 line broad, or the margins 

 incurved, so as to be almost terete, %\'ith smaller leaves often clustered in the 

 axils. Flowers blue and showy. Sepals lanceolate, 2 to 2^ lines long. 

 Petals 8 to 10 lines. Filaments short. Anthers rather longer, but not 

 reaching to the middle, and often not \ of the length of the petals. Cap- 

 sule veiy like those of Marianthns pidus and lineutHS, oblong, much flattened, 

 hard but dehiscent when quite ripe.— Hook. Ic. PL t. 47; FL des Sei-res, 

 viii. t. 856; F. Mueli. Fragm. i. 97; PL Vict. L 76; C. cyanea, Brongn. 

 Voy. Coq. t. 77. 



N. S. "Wales- Brushy forest country at the foot of Croker's range, frequent near 

 Bathurst, A, Cunningham; near Clifton in New England, C. SluarL 



Victoria, Barren stony ridges and hills, Mount Jl'Ivor, and near the Ovens range, F, 

 Mueller, 



S. Australia. Mount Barlcor, WhUtaker ; Flinders range. Kangaroo island, Spencer's 

 <^'ulf and St. Yiuceut's Gulf, F. Mueller. 



2- C. filifolia, Turcz. in Bull Mosc. 185i, ii. 364. Allied to CAi- 

 n&aris, but the brandies are more slender and often flexuose ornlmost twuung. 

 Leaves very narrow, thick or almost terete, obtuse or scarcely pointed, some- 



