332 XXVIII. BUTACE.E. [Kriostemoii, 



pink, attaining about i iu. Filaments flattened, densely fringed with wooJly 

 hairs, clavate and glandular at the top, bearing the anthers on a short stipes 

 as in Boronia ; anthers tipped with a ver}^ short broad recurved appcnd^ige. 

 Ovary glabrous ; style slightly pubescent below the middle. Cocci truncate 

 at the top, but not beaked, transversely wrinkled. Seeds smooth and shining. 

 — Eudge, in Trans. Linn. Soc, xi. t. 26 ; Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. t. 46 ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 2854 ; E. lanceolatm, Gsertn. f. Fr. iii, 154, t. 210; Croma scabra, Grab, 

 in Edinb. Phil Jouni. 1827, 174, 



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M/'ales. Port Jackson, E, Brovm, Sieher, n. 294 (the names or TiumLer 



/i^na, 295, iuterchauged in many herbaria), and F/. Miv{» n, 536, 



s of 

 and 





this and Crowea sa 

 others. 



The synonym often quoted of E. anstralasia-, Sm.j is an error. Smith mentions no species 

 inTraus. Lum. Soc. iv. 221, but iu describing the genus gives the station Australasia, which 

 has been mistaken for a specific name. 



2. E. Banksii^ J, Cunn,; Endl. in Ilueg. Tjumn, 15. A large shrub, 

 the young branches angular and loosely hairy. Leaves from obovate-oblong 

 to oblong-lanceolate, often obliqne, obtuse, 1 to 1|^ in. long, contracted into 

 a very short petiole, thinly coriaceous, finely veined and obscurely 8-uerved, 

 glabrous or slightly hairy. Peduncles very short, axillary, 1- or rarely 

 2-flowered, usually with 2 or 3 scale-like distant bracts. Sepals small, 

 ciliate. Petals attaining about 3 lines, hoary outside, with a prominent 

 midrib. "Filaments slightly flattened, woolly outside, clavate and glandular 

 at the top as in E. mlicifoUus ; anthers not apiculate. Ovary glabrous, style 

 pubescent. Carpels of the fruit 4 or 5 lines long, truncate, very shortly 

 beaked. 



Queeasland. Sandy shores of the Endeavour river. Banks and Solanchr, R.Brmon, 

 A. Cunningham, The leaves have very much the aspect of the phyllodla of some Acacias, 



3. E. virgatus, J, Cunn.; Eool. / in ITook. Jonm. BoL ii. 417. 

 An erect, glabrous shrub, with virgate branches. Leaves rather crowded, 

 cuneate-oblong, obtuse, mucronate, mostly about \ in. long, flat, almost 

 shining above, pale underneath, with a prominent midrib, the tubercidar 

 glands sHiall. Pedicels axillary, 1-flowered, shorter than the leaves, but 

 rather slender. Flowers 4-merous, Sepals smalL Petals glabrous, 2| to 

 3 lines long. Filaments flattened, clHate, attenmite at the top ; anthers 

 minutely apiculate. Cocci glabrous, rostrate.— Hook. f. Fl, Tasm. i. 64. 



Tasmania. Eoclty shores of Macquarie Harbour, J, Cunninp/iam ; Hockv Cape, 

 Guun; hilla on Iluon river, Oldfield. This is the odv species with 4.iuerou3 flowers, and 

 appears to be constantly so. Phebalium Oldjieldi, P. Muell., referred to it in Hook. f. FJ. 

 iasni u 3oS, from spccimeas in leai only, is very difTereat in iuflorescence and flowers, and 

 even the leaves differ in being never mucronate. 



-o^^' .^^f *^^yP^y^^^^» ^' ^'*^^^- ^^ Tram^ BUI Soc. VlcL i. 99, and 

 PL net. 1. 121. A tall glabrous shrub, with prominent tubercular glands. 

 Leaves from cnneate-oblong to narrow-lanceolate, shortly mucronate, 1 to 

 2 m. long, much narrowed at the base, flat or the margins slightly recurved, 

 the midrib prominent underneath. Pedicels axillary, 1-flowered, slender, but 

 shorter than the leaves. Petals white, glabrous, about 3 lines long. Fila- 

 ments somewhat flattened, ciliate, attenuate at the top ; anthers minutely 

 apiculate. Ovary glabrous, the carpels united to i of their hci<j;ht but 



