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Ermlemon,] xxviii. iiUTACE.E. 331 



Besides the Australian species, which are all endemic, the genus comprises one from New 

 Caledonia. F. Jliieller proposes to extend its limits so as to include Fhebalium, Microcyhe^ 

 Geleznovia, Crowea, ThUotheca, Lnmmondita, and Asterolasia, which are all no doubt 

 nearly enough related to it to be equally well regarded as sections or as substautive g:enera; 

 but as the n:ajority of tlieiu have been long established and universally adopted, and are dis- 

 tinguished by characters easily recognized^ their union into one vast genus seems to me to be 

 scarcely justilicd. 



Inflorescence axillary. 



Filaments clavatcand glandulai- at tlic top. 



Leaves linear or laueeolate, thick, obscurely 1-nerved. Bracts 



on the pedicel several, imbricate 1. E, salicifolius. 



Leaves oblong, finely 3-uerved. Bracts on the pedicel 1 to 3, 



distant , . 3. ^, BanksiL 



Filaments subulate at the top, usually flattened below. 



rio\yers 4-merous . , 3, ^. virgatm^ 



Flowers 5-merous. 



Leaves oblong or lanceolate, 1 to 3 or 4 in. long, flat, 1- 

 nerved. 

 Pedicels slender, 1 -flowered. Carpels of the ovarj- united 

 . \o above the middle, and not rostj-ate when I'ipe , . . 4. J?, trachyphyllus^ 

 Pedicels rigid, usually several-flowered. Carpels free from 



the base, rostrate when ripe 5. £ myoporoides. 



Leaves linear or linear-spathulate, mucrouate, with recurved 



margins and a promiueut midrib ^. E. hispdulus. 



Leaves short, cordate-ovate or obovate, ^\q margins thickened 



or recurved, the midrib prominent .<•.■-... 7. -^. bnxifoUus, 

 Leaves obovate or spathulate, thick, flat or concave, the 



midrib faint or none 8. -S. obovalis. 



Leaves narrow-linear, convex underneath or terete. 



Filaments flat %. E. scaher.^ 



Filaments subulate • 10. E, lineans. 



Inflorescence terminal, appealing sometimes lateral by the elongation 

 of the side shoots. 

 Flowers solitary or rarely 2 or 3 together. 

 Leaves suudi, flat or with recurved margins. 



Leaves not above 2 lines long, ikxck, wartcd or crenate with 



large prominent glands . 11. -E'. diffonms. 



Leaves flat, oblong or liuear, 3 to 4 lines, crenate, with a • 



prominent midrib : 11^ E. difformis, van 



[Smithlauus. 



Leaves flat, linear-cuueate, 2 to 4 lines, slightly crenate, 



nerveless . . . , 13. E parvifohus. 



Leaves linear- terete. . »• • 



Leaves warted with large glands. Flowers not above 3 lines 11. E. diffomns, var, 



[brevifolius. 



Leaves smooth. Flowers nearly 5 lines ....... 13. -£*• encifolius* 



Flowers (usually blue) densely clustered or capitate H* "^" ^^^'f/^''*^'*' 



Flowers (usually pale blue) in loose racemes • 15. ^. spicatus, 



{Eriosteinon dentattis, Colla, is EUcocarpus dentatus, Vahl, a New Zealand plant.) 



1. E- salicifolius, Sm. ; DC. Trod. i. 720. An erect slirub, the branches 

 I'ijjid and often angular, glabrous or minntcly hoary. Leaves linear or 

 linear-lanceolate, mostly 1 to 2 in. loni?, rather thick and rigid, glabrous when 

 full-grown, obscurely 1-uerved. Pedumaes axillary, short and l-flowered, uith 

 a few broati scale-like imbricate bracts at the base, hoary with a muiiite tonieu- 

 turn as well as the calyx and petals. Sepals short, orbicular, rigid. Petals 



