CrotceaJ] 



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inserted above the middle of tlie carpels, immediately united into one filiform 

 style with a small or globular stigma. Ovules 2, superposed or almost col- 

 lateral. Cocci 2-valved, rounded or truncate at the top, the endocarp carti- 

 laguious and separating elastically. — Glabrous shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves 

 alternate^ simple. Flowers rather large, red purple or green, glabrous, solitary, 

 axillary or terminal. 



The genus is confined to Australia. It is tinited hy F. Mueller ^^hh Eriostemon, from 

 which it differs chiefly in the long hair^- ai^peadagcs of the anthers. 



Peduncles terminal or, if axillary, leafy at the base. Branches scarcely 



Y^^^^^ * ; \. a, emiata, 



■redune]es all axillary, without leafy bracls. Branches very angular or 

 almost winged. 



Leaves quite entire. Style short. Stigma globular / , . . • 2. (7. saligna, 

 Leaves Tno^^tly or all denticulate. Style long. Stigma stort. 

 Branches erect, almost herbaceous. Leaves linear or narrowed 



at both ends 3. C angusiifolia, 



Bigid shrub. Leaves froiii bj-oadly cuneate to oblong, truncate 



or very obtuse ' 4. C. dentata. 



J^l. C. exalata, T, Muell in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. I 11, Shrubby, with 

 the branches more slender than in C. saligna, and scarcely angular. Leaves 

 numerous, narrow-linear, mostly obtuse, often all under 1 in. and rarely 

 attaining 1| in., all entire. Flowers smaller than in C. saligna, on short 

 peduncles, ahnost terminal, or if axillary by the abortion of the flowering 

 hrancli, the peduncle usually bears 1 or more small leaves at its base. Petals 

 rarely ^ in. long, red or rarely green. Stamens as in C. mligua, the petaline 

 fihimeuts shorter than the others. Ovary veiy short; style very short, with 

 a large glo1)ular stigma. Cocci small, free from the base. — Eriostemon 

 Orowei (i)artly), F. Muell. Fl. Vict. i. 119. 



N, S. "Wales. Paramatta, Wilson; Yowaka river. Mount Tambo, etc., near Twofold 

 ^■'iy.F, Mneller. 



Victoria. Mount Macfarlane, near Omeo, Mitta-Mitta, Livingston and Genoa rivers, 

 and Bog-y Creek, towards Lake King, R Mueller, 



Ahis plant is now considered bj F. Mueller as specifically identical with C. saUgna, and it 

 ^Y P^^sihly prove to be a variety of that species ; but, besides the general habit, foliage, 



and less angular stems, the infloreseence appears to me to be different in all the specimens I 

 navr- — 



e seen. 



2. C, saligna, Jndr. BoL Eep. t. 79. Slirubby and erect, the hranehes 

 promiueutly angular. Leaves mostly lanceolate, narrowed at each end, acute 

 or obtuse, ] to 2 in. lon^^ of a mnch thinner consistence than those o^ Erio- 

 slemon saUcifoUus, whicli this species sometimes resembles, in sonic speci- 

 ttiens passing into a broadly oblong or elliptical-ovate shape, in others ahnost 

 linear, like those of C. exalata. Plowers red, on axillary pedicels shorter 

 than the leaves, thickened upwards, with 2 veiy minute bracts at their base. 

 Sepals short aiul broad. Petals 7 to 9 lines long. Appendage of the 

 anthers longer than the cells themselves. Style very short, with a large 

 globulai' stigma. Cocci short, united to near the top. Seeds reticulate, 

 ?omewhat shining,— Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 7 i Bot. Mag. t. 989 ; DC. Trod. 

 ]^ 720; C. hdifoUa, Lodd. in G. Don, Gep. Syst. i. 793; Eriosternon Crowei 

 (partly), r. MueU. PL Vict. i. 119. 



