324 XXVIII. UUTACE.^. [Boronia. 



acute. Petals 2 or 3 times as long as tlie sepals, attaining 4 lines, broad, im- 

 bricate, mucronate, glabrous. Filaments more or less hairy, clavate-globiilar 

 and hispid at the top; anthers minutely apiculate. Ovary glabrous. Style 

 short, with a large globular 4-Iobed stigma. Seeds black and shining. 

 Svv. n. Austral, t. 19; Bot. Keg. t. 843; Paxt. Mag. Bot. i. 173, with a 



figure. 



Iff. S. 'Wales. Port Jaclisou, R. Brown, Sieher, n. 298, and others. Said to he knowu 

 as "Native Rose" hy the coloiiists. 



44.' B. rhomboidea^ Hook, Tc. PL t. 722, A small, glabrous, much- 

 branched, rigid shrub. Leaves simple, sessile, broadly rhomboid, obovate 

 orbicular or almost reniform, obtuse, not exceeding -^ in., quite entire, coria- 

 ceous and nerveless. Flowers rather smaller than in B. serrulaia, almost 

 sessile, terminal and solitary or few together, or occasionally 1 or 2 in the 

 axils of the next pair of leaves, surrounded by 1 or 2 pairs of floral leaves or 

 bracts, usually spathulate and petiolate. Sepals ovate. Petals not twice as 

 long as the sepals, attaining about 3 lines. Filaments glabrous, glandular- 

 tubcrculate, thickened upwai'ds ; anthers not apiculate. Ovary glabrous. ^ Style 

 rather long. Seeds apparently black and shining, but not seen quite ripe 

 Hook. f. FL Tasm. i. r>6. 



Tasmania. North-west River near Hobarton and Western Mountains, Gunn; asccndnig 

 to 3000 or -1000 ft., C. StuarL 



r 



45. B. parviflora, Sm.- Tracts, 295, t. 6. A small, glabrous under- 

 shrub, forming a thick woody rhizome with numerous prostrate, ascending, or 

 erect branching stems 

 Leaves all simple, from 



, usually under 6 in., but sometimes nearly 1 ft. loi^g. 



a oblong to linear-lanceolate, rather acute, rarely \ m. 

 long. Flowers small, terminal, solitary or few in a leafy terminat cyme, on 

 short thickened pedicels, one or two rarely axillaiy by the abortion of the 

 flowering branch^ Sepals acute, 1^ to 2 lines long. Petals not much ex- 

 ceeding them, imbricate, glabrous. FiUiments glabrous or sliglitly hairy and 

 glandular towards the top; anthers very minutely or not at all apiculate. 

 Ovary glabrous; style short and thick/ Cocci small. Seeds smooth and 

 shining.— DC. Prod. i. 721 ; P. Muell. PL Yict. i. 113 ; B, pilonema, Labill. 

 PL Nov. HolL L 98, 1. 126 ; DC. Prod. i. 722 ; Hook. f. PL Tasm, i. C6. 



N. S. Wales. Port Jaclvson, R. Brown, Sieder, n. 290, and others; northward to 

 Hastings river, Bechler, 



Victoria. Heathy and sandy moors at Port Albert, towards Wilson's Promontory, ^^^ 

 near Cape Liptrap, F, Mueller. 



Tasmania. Port Dalryniple, R. Brown ; common in heaths and sandy places through- 

 cut the island, J^ D. Hooker, 



Some specimens mnch resemble at first sight some of the smaller forms of B. fohjgaVifona, 

 hut a careful examination of the inflorescence wUl always suffice to distinguish them, mde- 

 pendently of the seeds. 



46. B. viminea, Lindl. Swan Rlv, App. 17, A small or slender gl^i- 

 brous slirub. Leaves all simple, usually linear-lanceolate or linear-cuneate, 

 flat, in some specimens ^ to 1 in. long, in others all under \ in. Pedicels 

 mostly axillary but also terminal, 1-llowered, short, thickened nnder the 

 flower. ^ Sepals ovate or lanceolate, short. Petals attaining 2 to 3 lines, gla- 

 brous, imbricate. Filaments densely woolly, glabrous glandular and obtuse 



