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Lmlopcdalmn.'] xxii. sterculiace.e. 261 



1 



Tasmania. Hummook or Prime Seal Island, Bass's Straits, Backhouse, Gann^ aud 

 others. 



S, Australia. Port Lincoln, R. Brown^ Wilhebni ; Memory Cove, R. Brown; Venus 



Bay and Kangaroo Island, Waterhouse, 



"W. Australia. S. coast, Dntmmond, Wi CoIL n. 263; sandy hills, S.W. \^'^^' and 

 Doubtful Island Bay, Oldfield. 



I. L. dasjrphyllum, Sieb. ; IIooJc. Jonrn.Bot, ii. 414. A tall shrub, the 

 ling TTrrmcTics rListy-tomentose. Leaves from ovate-cordate to cordate- or 

 oWou^-lanceolate, in luxuriant specimens 3 or 4 in, long and acute, in others 

 much smaller and obtuse, entire, coriaceous, glabrous or slightly scabrous 

 above, white or rusty-tomentose underneath. Cymes reflexed, nearly sessile, 

 very dense, almost capitate, aud densely rusty-tomentose. Bracteolcs lanceo- 

 late, shorter than the calyx. Calyx-segments ovate-lanceolate, 3 to 4 lines 

 lojig, tomentose outside, gh^brous inside. Anthers truncate, a1)0ut as long as 

 the filaments. Ovarj- tomentose, usually 4-celk'd (idmost constantly 3-celled 

 in all other S2:)ecies of the genus). Style glabrous or tomentose at the base 

 only.—Steetz, in PL Preiss. ii. 341 ; F. Muell. PI Yict. i. 144 ; L. Gannii^ 

 Steetz, I.e. ii. 342; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 51; Z. WiUidmi, F. Muell. in 

 Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. ii. 65. 



N. S. "VITales. Grose river, R. Brown; Port Jackson, S leher n. 24 0, and others; 

 Blue Mountains, A. Cunningham aud others; southward to Twofold Bay,'!''. Mueller, 



Victoria, Highest declivities of the Grampians, Wilhelmi ; granitic ridges, more fre- 

 quent towards the eastern boundary, F. Mueller, 



Tasmania. Rocky Cape and islands of Bass's Straits, Gunn. 



3. L, indutum, Slmd. in FL Preiss, i. 235; Slcdz, Lc. ii. 340. A 

 nmcli-branehed shrub of 2 to 4 ft., the young' shoots rusty-tomentose. Leaves 

 from broadly oblong to linear, obtuse, 1 to 3 in. long, not cordate at the base, 

 the margins sliglitly recurved, coriaceous, glabrous above when full grown, 

 densely tomentose underneath. Cymes shortly pedunculate, compact, re- 

 flexed, few-flowered. Bracteoles linear, tomentose-villous, shorter than or 

 sometimes as long as the calyx. Calyx-segments lanceolate, acute, 2 to 3 

 lines long, densely tomentose or softly Villous outside, glabrous or nearly so 

 inside. Filaments short; anthers contracted at the top, with oblique pores. 

 Ovary tomentose-villous ; style glabrous. 



^^, Australia. Konkoherup hills, Fre'iss.n. 1655; towards Capr lUcbc, Brttmmond ; 

 S.AV. interior, Maxwell (with less woolly flowers) : saad-bills by the south coast; R. Brazen 

 (with small flowers). 



4- L. Behrii, F. Muell. in Trans. PluL Soc. Vict. I 36, aad PL VicL i. 

 1-13, L 3. An erect or diffuse shryb, of several feet, nearly allied to i. m- 

 dutum, but with larger more rigid llowers. Young branclies rubty-tomentose. 

 Leaves shortly petiolate, from oblong to linear, obtuse, mostly 1^ to 2^ in. 

 mug, not cordate at the base, the margins recurved, coriaceous, glabrous 

 I above when full grown, hoary or riisty undei:neath with a close tomen- 



tum. Cymes shortly pedunculate, rather loose. Bracteoles liueaV, nuich 

 shorter tliau the calyx. Calyx-segments ovate, acute, 3 to 4 liues^ long, 

 ^thcr thick, obscurely 3-nerved and white-tomentosc outside, glabrous inside. 

 Filaments very short; mither-pores small, terminal. Ovary tomentose; style. 

 glabrous. • 



H. S, "Wales, Darliutr and Murruinbid'^ce rivers, F, Maelier. 



