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EriostemonJ] xxviii. rutace.t;. 335 



N. S. ^Vales. Mount Boyne, Fraser ■ Goulburn and Peel ranges, J. Cunniyigham ; 

 Mount Murcliison and Ebers rnn^es, F. Mueller. United by F. Muefler with B. difformis ; 

 it differs in the inflorescence, wliicli is tliat of the lust 3 species, from which it is disiiu- 

 guished by the filaments quite filiform or scarcely perceptibly flattened. The leaves arc more 

 slender than in either species. 



11. £!• difformiSy A. Cunn, ; EndL in ITneg. Ennm, 15. A mnch- 

 brauclied compact slirub^ glabrous or the younger branches minutely pubes- 

 cent. Leaves in the normal form small, numerous, obovate, oblong-, or almost 

 ynomboiclal, very obtuse, rarely above 2 lines long, usually tuberculate or as 

 it were crenate, with 2 or 3 veiy large prominent glands, thick and convex, 

 the margins often recurved, glabrous on both sides. Plowers small, terminal, 

 solitary or 2, or 3 together, on very short pedicels. Calyx very small. Petals 

 2 to nearly 3 lines long, usually pubescent outside. Filaments flattened, 

 densely ciliate ; anthers shortly apictilate. Ovarv villous ; style short. Cocci 



! .very shortly beaked.— F. Muell. PL Vict. i. 123; E. rhombeus, Lindi. in 



; Mitch. Trop. A.ustr. 293. 



Queensland. Mantua downs, Mitchell; between Mackenzie and Bawson rivers, F, 

 Mueller; near "Wan^'ick, Beckler ; near Broad Sound, Herb. Mueller, 



Wj S. ^Vales. Lachlan river. A, Canninglmm, . 

 • Victoria- ^Murray river and Grampian Mountains, F. Mueller. 



»*^- Australia. Drummondy n, 55. 



Var. (?) SmllJdanus. Quite glabrous. Leaves flat, thin, oblong or linear, glandular cre- 

 mate, 3 to 4 lines long, with a conspicuous midrib. Petals usually glabrous. — E. SviilhianuSt 

 Ibll, in Herb. TNIuell. 



Queensland. Wide Bay, W. Hill; near Brisbane, IIe7ine, 



N. S. "Wales. Stacleav river, Beckler. 



Var. (?) teretl/oHus, Glabrous or pubescent. Leaves linear-terete, more or less crenate 

 or tuberculate, with larire prominent glands, usually short and crowded, but sometimes 3 or 

 "parly 4 liiies louj?. Petals glabrous. Ovary glabrous or pubescent.— Z'. hrevifolias, A. 

 Cunn. ; Endl. in Hueg. Enum. 16. 



«- S. Wales. Peel's range, A. Cunuhgham. 



S. Australia. Lyncdoch valley, Behr. ; Lofty Range and near Gawlcr river, F, Mueller, 



W. Australia, Drammond, Wi Coll. 7i. 204 (with rather larger flowers). Phillips 

 and Fitzgerald rivers, Maxwell. 



-Endlicher describes the leaves of Cunningham's plant as revolate and pubescent under- 

 ueath. which I do not find in any of his specimens. This and the last variety appear in our 

 herbaria so distinct in foliage from the ordinary form of E. difformis, that I should have 

 admitted them as substantive species, had it not been for the authority of F. Mueller, who 

 observes that they pass much one into the other. 



12. E. parvifolius, K Br. Herh. A low, erect, compact, iiuich- 



tranched, pjlabrous shrul). Leaves crowded, linear-cuneate, obtuse, 3 to 4 lines 

 ^^^g^slig-htly glaiulular-creuate, flat, coriaceous, witliout any conspicuous midrib. 

 ■Flowers small, terminal, solltarv, shortly podicellate, glabrous. Sepals small. 

 I'etals 2 to 2^ lines long. Filaments flattened, ciliate; anthers miimtely api- 

 eulate. Cocci short, truncate, obscurely beaked. Seeds minutely tuberculate, 



Queensland. Shoalwater Bay, R. Brotcn {Herb, R, Br,). 



13. E. ericifolius, J. Cann. Herb, An erect, beath-like, glahrous 

 shrub. Leaves crowded, linear-terete, obtuse or nearly so, much longer than 

 in E. difformis, although rarely exceeding \ in., slightly glandular but not 

 tuberculate. Flowers terminal, solitaiy or 2 or 3 together on short pedicels, 

 sometimes apparently lateral by the elongation of the side shoot. Sepals 



