262 xxiT. STERCULiACEiE. [Lasiopelaltm. 



Victoria. In the N.W. district, F. Mueller, 



S. Australia. S. coast, R, Brown; from the Murray river to Kangaroo Island and 

 the E. extreniity of the Great Australian Bight, and northward to Lake Torreus, F, Mueller, 



5. I*, parviflorum, Rudge^ in Trans, Linn, Soc. x. 297, t» 19. A tall 

 shnib, the young branches hoary or nisty-tomentose. Leaves on short pe- 

 tioles, linear, obtuse, mostly 1| to 3 in. long, coriaceous, glabrous above, 

 white or rusty-tomentose underneath. Cymes shortly pedunculate, corymbose 

 and several-flowered, but much shorter than the leaves. Braeteoles small, the 

 2 lateral ones sometimes minute or even wanting. Calyx-segments li to 3 

 lines long, minutely white-tomentose outside, glabrous inside. Filaments 

 very short, anthers ovate, truncate. Ovaiy tomentose; style glabrous 

 J. Gay, in Mem. Mus. Par. vii. 447, t. 19 ; DC. Prod. i. 489 ; Steetz, in PL 

 Preiss. ii. 339 ; P. Muell PI. Vict. i. 142. 



N. S. "^Vales, Port Jackson, 72. Brown, A, Cunningham; Twofold Bay. F. Mueller. 



Victoria. Granite hanks of watercourses towards the eastern frontier, F, Mueller. 



Var. major. Calyx-segments 2 to 3 lines long. Cymes denser. To this helon^ most of 

 the southern specimens. 



Var. (?) occidentale. Leaves smaller, rarely above 1 in. long. Flowers small. Braeteoles 

 very small. Scarcely, however, to be distinguished from some of the smaller-flowered Port 

 Jackson specimens. 



"W". Australia^ Drummondy ^ih Coll. n. 267. 



6. L. oppositifolium, F. Muell. Fragm, ii. 5. A diffuse shrub, 

 with slender, rigid, divaricate branches, whitish with a close tomeutum. 

 Leaves raostly opposite, shortly petiolate, lanceolate or oblong-linear, 2 to 4 

 in. long, slightly cordate at the base, ghibrous above, minutely tomentose 

 underneath. Cymes shortly pedunculate, reflexed, ghmdular-hispid. Plowers 

 small. Braeteoles linear, longer than the calyx. Calyx-segnu^nts lanceolate, 

 2 to 3 lines long, hirsute outside, glabrous within. Anthers opening in ter- 

 minal pores, but at length splitting also laterally. Ovary hirsute ; style gla- 

 brous. 



W. Australia. Murcbison river, Oldfield. The specimens have only very imperfect 

 withered flowers. 



7. L. micranthum, IlooJc.f, Fl. Tarn. i. 51. A small shrub, branches 

 tomentose. Leaves petiolate, oblong-linear, obtuse, 1 to 2 in. long or rarely 

 more, the margins revolute, glabrous, or slightly scabrous and wrinkled with 

 impressed veins above, densely tomentose undenieath. Cymes shortly pe- 

 dunculate, corymbose, reflexed. Bracts broadly ovate, concave, the lateral 

 ones small. Calyx-segments lanceolate, acuminate, about 2 lines long, 

 slightly tomentose outside, glabrous within^. Filaments short; anthers trun- 

 cate, the cells opening laterally to the base more readily than in any other 

 species. Ovary tomentose; style glabrous. 



Tasmania. Eastern Tier, near Oyster Bay, and S.E. of Luuiiceston, Gunn ; near 

 Sw an Port, C Stuart. 



8. Ii. macrophyllum, Grah, in BoL Mag, L 3908. A tall shrub, the 

 branches densely rusty-tomentose. Leaves petiolate, ovate-lanceolate or lan- 

 ceolate, mostly acute, 2 to 4 in. long, glabrous, or slightly scabrous, and much 

 wrinkled with injpressed veins above, densely tomentose underneath. Cjmcs 

 shortly pedunculate, corymbose, reflexed, rather loose, with numerous small 



