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33 1 xxvili. KUTACE^. \ErmteMon. 



Peduncles short, axillary, 1- or very rarely 2-flowerecrwith very minute bracts 

 below the middle or at the base, thickened upwards. Petals broadly oblong, 

 attaining 4 or 5 lines. Filaments flattened, slightly ciliate, the longer ones 

 or all attenuate and glabrous at the top ; anthers minutely apiculate. Cax-pels 

 much elongated above the cells ; style glabrous. Cocci ovate, beaked on the 

 upper outer edge. — Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. t. 45 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4101. 



N. S. "Wales- Port Jackson, E. Brown, Sieber, n. 30ir. and others. This species 

 seems occasionally ahnost to run into E, obovaHs in the shape of its leaves, but is then 

 always known by the rccnrveJ margins and prominent midrib. 



8. E. obovalis, A. Cnnn. in Field, K S. Wales, 331. A glabrous shrub 

 of 2 to 3 ft. Leaves obcordate, obovate or obloug-spathulate, very obtuse or 

 truncate, rarely attaining ^ in., much narrowed at the base and often petio- 

 late, thick but flat or concave above, the midrib little conspicuous, usually 

 strongly tuberculate with prominent glands. Pedicels axillary, 1-flowered, short 

 and thickened upwards. Flowers rather smaller than in H. buxifolins. Petal 

 glabrous, attaining 3 or 4 lines. Filaments flattened^ ciliate. Cocci beaked, 

 at least when young (not seen ripe). — E. vermcosnSy A. Rich. Sert. Astrol. 



7i, t. 26 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 64 ; F. Muell. PI, Vict. i. 123 ; :E, obcor- 



dulus, A. Cunn. in Hook. Journ. Bot. i, 254 ; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 60, 



• K. S. VTales. Yerge of Regent's Glen, Bhu Mountains, A, Cunnb?^Jia?n ; Bluffs 

 Head, Calei/. 



Victoria- Barren ranges and forest land, not common, F. Mueller. 



Tasmania. Derwent river, R. Brown; common in gravelly and sandy soil tlirougnout 

 the island, J. D. Hooker. 



A. Richard jj:ives Moreton Bay as the station of his plant, but that is probably owing to 

 some mistake of Lesson's in labelling the plants received from Fraser. In A. Cunningham's 

 diagnosis the lluwers are said to be terminal, bvit I find them always axillary in his specimens, 

 although sometimes proceeding from the upper axils sg as to appear terminal without close 

 examination. 



9. 'B. ^cBh^VyPaxt. Mag. BoL^m.l^^l, with a figure. A slirub, with tlie 

 general aspect of E, Jikpidulus, but with glabrous or very minutely pubescent 

 branclies. Leaves sessile, narrow-linear, acute and mucronulate, under 1 in. 

 long, thick and very convex underneath, flat or channelled above and often 

 almost terete, the margins never revolute, more or less tuberculate with pro- 

 minent glands. Inflorescence and flowers of E. ohovalis. Carpels much com- 

 pressed, prominently rostrate. 



Qneeasland. Glasshouse Mjnutains, F. Mue'Ier. 



W. S. IrValea. St. George's river, R. Brown; Paramatta, Woolh ; Port Jackson, 

 Caley ; near Liverpool, Ldchhardt. 



This 13 considered by F. MueUcr as a variety of E, huxifoHus. It appears to me to te 

 licarer to E. ohovalis, and differs from both chiefly in foliage. 



_ 10. E. linearis, A. Cunn. ; TML in ILieg. Emm. 16. A rigid hcath- 

 Iike shrub, quite ghibrous or the branches minutely pubescent. Leaves ses- 

 sile, linear-terete, obtuse or scarcely miicronate, sometimes all under \ in-> 

 but attaining | in. when very luxuriant, more or less tuberculate with pro- 

 minent glands. Pedicels short, axillary, 1-flowercd. Flowers white or piuk. 

 Petals glabrous, attaining 2^ or scarcely 3 lines. Filaments filiform, very 

 hairy; anthers minutely apiculate. Ovary glabrous; stigma slightly dilated 

 and lobed. Cocci glabrous, beaked.— £, halmaiiiyonm, V. Mudl. in Linneea, 

 XXV. 376. 



