336 XXVIII. KUTACE.^. [Eriostemon. 



broad-lanceolate. Petals attaining 5 lines, glabrous or ciliate, with a promi- 

 nent midrib. Pilaments flattened, woolly-ciliate on the edges, attenuate at 

 tbe top, the longer ones bearing a long tuft of rigid hairs behind the anthers ; 

 anthers shortly apiculate. Ovary very hairy. Carpels of the fruit beaked. 



N, S. "Wales. Skirts of Liverpool plains. J. Cminingham, This species has the fo- 

 liage nearly of ^'. nodiflorus, but larger usually solitary flowers, and is reumrkable for the 

 long hairs covering the auHicrs, 



14. E. nodiflorus, Lindl. Swan Riv. App, 17. A heath-like shrub, 

 with virgate branches, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Leaves narrow-linear 

 or almost terete, acute or rather obtuse, under \ in, long, g!al)rous, the glands 



nearly glabrous or hirsute, often 

 als attainino- %\ to 3^ lines. Fila- 



not tubercuhar. Flowers usually blue, several together in dense terminal 

 heads, which become lateral by the elongation of one or more side shoots. 

 Pedicels short. Sepals linear-lanceolate, 

 more than half as long as the petals. Petals 

 ments slightly flattened, ciliate, attenuate at the top ; anthers scarcely apicu- 

 late. Ovary glabrous. Cocci acutely beaked. — Bartl. in PL Preiss. i. 171. 



^V. Australia. King George's Sound to Swan River, Drumrnond, 1st CoILy Wi CoIL 

 «. 95, Uh Coll. n. 203, Preiss, 7i. 2049 ; Mount Barker and Kalgan river, OlJfield ; W. 

 Mount Barren, MaxwelL , 



There are two principal forms which at first sight look very distinct, one with small flowers 

 and very villous calyces, the other with larger almost glabrous fiowers, but they are con- 

 nected by so many intermediates that they cannot be well defined even as varieties. B. ca- 

 lycimis, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1849, ii. 14, founded on Drummond's specimens, n. 93 of 

 the 4lh Coll., appears to be the same species, although the petals in tbe dried state show 

 nothing of the blue tinge. I can find no other difference. 



15. E. spicatus, A. Rich. Sert. AdroL 76, ^. 27. A lieatli-like shrub 

 or iindershrub of 1 or 2 ft., with virgate erect branehes, glabrous or sliglitly 

 pubescent. Leaves erect or spreading, very narrow-linear or almost terete, 

 rarely much exceeding \ in. Flowers blue according to most collectors, pink 

 according to Oldfield (in Herb. MuelL), generally drying pale-bine or almost 

 white, in loose terminal usually pubescent racemes of 1 to 3 in., with a leafy 

 bract of I to 1^ lines at the base of each pedicel at a very early stage, but 

 these bracts fall off usually long before the raceme is fully developed, and are 

 only veiy rarely persistent till after the first flowers open. Sepals sninll. 

 Petals rather broad, about 3 lines long, Tilaraents flattened, densely ciliate, 

 attenuate at the top ; anthers shortly apiculate. Ovary glabrous. Carpels 

 of the fruit slightly beaked.— Bartl. in PI. Preiss. i. 171.— j6?. racemosus and 

 Fj. tbradeatus, Endl. in Hueg. Enum. 15 : E, efusns, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 

 1849, ii. 14. ^ u/ > 



on ^'7^^^^^^^^*' ^^'^^^ ^^"^' George's Sound to Swan River, Brummond, Preiss, n. 

 2021, Ilarvey, and others. T hnve not seen Gilbert's specluicus a. 95, described by Tur- 

 czaniuow, but refer them to this species from the character given. 



6. PHEBALIUM, A. Juss. 



Calyx small, 5-cleft or 5-toothed. Petals 5, valvate or laterally imbricate, 

 but always with valvate inflexed tips. Disk narrow or an^mlar. Stamens 

 10, sl]orter or longer than the petals; filaments glabrous or rarely sliglitly 

 ciliate, filiform or rarely flat, subulate at the top ; anthers tipped with a small 

 gland or not at all apiculate. Carpels 5, rarely 4 or fewer, distinct from the 



