340 xxviir. KUTACE^. * {Phehalium. 



Bay, F. 



N. S. 'Wales. Yolvavva river, near Twofold Bay, F. Mueller ; Toot of Castle Rock 

 Mountain, Leiclthardt, \ 



7. P. bilobtim, LindL in Mitch Three Aped, ii. 178. An elcg^ant 

 usually divaricately branclied slirub, sometimes tall and erect in ^vet valleys, 

 glabrous or tlie young brandies minutely stellate-pubescent. Leaves sessile 

 or nearly so, oblong or lanceolate, sometimes all under \ in., sometimes 1 in. 

 long or even more, tmncate or 2-lobed at the top, the margins often serrate 

 and recurA^ed or revolute, rounded, narrowed or rarely cordate at the base, 

 smooth and oft ea shining on both sides, the midrib prominent underneath. 

 Flowers small, in terminal erect sessile umbels, often on short lateral branchcs> 

 rarely apparently axillary by the abortion of the branch. Pedicels slender, 1 

 to 3 lines long. Stamens shortly exserted; filaments filiform. Disk small. 

 Ovary glabrous, of 2 or 3, rarely 4, carpels. Cocci oval-oblong, beaked.,. 

 P. Iruncahiiii, Hook. f. PI. Tasra. i. 64, t. 9 ; Eriostemon serrulatns, F. Muell. 

 Fragm. i. 4 ; E. Uildebrandi, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Yict. i. 10, and 

 PI. Viet, i, 127 ; Dietr. Fl. VmY. N. Ser, ii. t. 2. 



t^ctoria* Mount William, i/iYi?/^^?//; Cataracts and rocky rivulets in the Victoria 

 ranges and Grampians, F. Mueller. 



Tasmania. Flinders Island, Bass's Straits, and Schouten Island, E. coast, Guun; 

 Mount Gog, Archer. 



S. Australia. Mount Lofty, Whittalcer ; sources of the Gawlcr river, F. Mueller. 



In Mitchell's specimens, tlic leaves are broad aud cordate at the base; in others, from 

 the same locality, they are rounded or narrowed at the hase, as in the generality of the Tas- 

 manian ones. The Mount Lofty specimens arc small, divaricate, with short cordate leaves, as 

 figured by Dietrich. The pistil is usually 3-meroub iu Victoria, more fi-equently S-morous in 

 Tasmania, but variable in both. 



8. P. lampropliyllum, Bentlu A densely branched ghabrous shrub. 

 Leaves crowded, oblong-lanceolate, acute, under \ in. long, entire, corinceoiis 

 and shining, flat or concave, contracted into a very short petiole. Flowers 

 few, in terminal sessile limbels, with a small bnt usually leafy bract at the 

 base of each pedicel Calyx small. Petals and stamens not seen. Carpels 

 5, of which 2 or 3 only ripen, ovate, beaked, glabrous. Seeds smooth and 

 shining. — Eriostemon lampropjiyllus, F. Muell PL Vict. i. 126- 



■ Victoria. Summit of Mount Ligar, towards the sources of Macalister river, F, 

 Mueller^ 



9. P, elatius, Benth, A tall shrub, glabrous or the branches very 

 ininutely pubescent, and usually tuberculate with prominent glands. Leaves 

 linear-cuneate or oblong; obtuse, i to f in. long, entire or crennlate, thinly 

 coriaceous, smooth and sliining, naiTowed into a very short jictiole. Peduncles 

 2- or more-flowered, terminal or in the uppermost axils, forming short terminal 

 leafy corymbs or ovate panicles. Calyx very small. Petals valvate, not 2 lines 

 long. Stamens exserted; filaments subulate, glabrous; anthers small. Ovary 

 glabrous, on a raised almost stalk-like disk. Cocci obliquely obovate, very 

 minutely bealced.— i?/7Vs/mow elalior, F. Muell Fragm. i. 181, 



N. S. Wales. New England, near Tenterficld, C. Stuart. The species is very 

 closely allied to the New Zealand P, nudum. Hook., dilTering chiefly in much sinah^'^ 

 flowers, the calyx-lobes less prominent, the inflorescence not so flat-topped, etc. 



10. P. Oldfieldii, F. Muell Herb. A densely branched shrub, quite 

 labrous or the branches pubescent. Leaves narrow-oblong or slightly 



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