1 



1 PhebaUam,'] XXViii. butacE/E. . 341 



cuncate, very obtuse or retuse, rarely exceeding | in., entire, coriaceous, and 

 often" shining, the margins flat or slightly recurved, contracted into a very 

 short petiole. Flowers few, in short sessile terminal umbels. Sepals small. 

 Petals and stamens not seen. Carpels 5, glabrous, ovate when ripe, shortly 

 beaked. Seeds not ^een.—M'ioslmo^i Oldfieldii, F. MueU. Fr ■ - - 



PI. Viet. i. 125. 



Tasmania. At the base of Mount Lapeyrouse, Oldfield and Stuart, The foliage is, at 

 tii'st sight, so much liko that of Eriostemon virgatHS, that the speciitiens without flowers 

 lirst received were mistaken for that plant (Hook. f. Fi. Tasm. ii. 358); hut even the 

 ieaves may be knowu by their eud much more obtuse or retuse, and never mucronate. 



11* P» rotundifolium^ BentJi, An erect much-branched shrub, the 

 young branches minutely pubescent. Leaves crowded, almost imbricate, 

 small, obovate or orbicular, obtuse or minutely mucronate, mostly 2 to 3 lines 

 long, flat or concave, coriaceous, glabrous, very shortly petiolate or almost 

 sessile. I'lowers several, in a terminal sessile umbel, almost contracted into 

 a head in our specimens, -which are not fully out. Sepals small. Petals 

 valvate, glabrous. Filaments filiform, glabrous. Ovary glabrous, on a very 

 short disk, the terminal appendages of the carpels very short. — Eriostemon 

 rotundifolius, A. Cnun,, Endl, in Hueg. Enum. 15. 



«- S- Wales. Hunter's River, A. Cu7ininf/Iiam, 



12. P, brachyphyllum, Benlh.^ A dwarf shrub, with a thick woody 

 t^ase and numerous branching stems of 2 to 4 in., glabrous or minutely 

 pubescent. Leaves small, crowded, sessile or nearly so, v^ry spreading, 

 obovate or orbicular, very obtuse, rarely exceeding 2 lines, tiiick, coriaceous 

 and nerveless, very convex. Flowers few (usually 3 to 5), in termiiuil clusters 

 or short racemes. Pedicels short. Sepals small. Petals about 1^ lines 

 ''*'^o> fjlabrous, Vcdvate. Pilaments filiform. Ovary glabrous, on a distinct 

 stalk-like disk, the terminal aj)pendages of the carpels very short. 



S- Australia. Encounter Bay and near Coffin Bay, F. Mueller. 



13. P, diosmeum, A. Jim, in Mem, Soc. HisL Nat. Par, ii. 135, /. 11. 

 4^ ^YG(^t heath-like shrub, the branches more or less hirsute. Leaves crowded, 

 linear, obtuse, mostly under \ in., the margins revolute, scabrous or sprinkled 

 .yith a few hairs. Flowers yellow, numerous, in a sessile terminal head, 

 intermixed with linear bracts shorter than the calyx. Sepals linear, erect, 

 pubescent, about half as long as the petals. Petals about 3 lines long, 

 gIal)rous, valvate. Stamens exserted ; filaments subulate, glabrous; anthers 

 tlidymous. Carpels very short, witli the terminal appendages 4 times as long, 

 Rlal)rous or hairy ; style glabrous. Eipe fniit not scm.— P. pliylicoides, Sieb. 

 in Spreng. Syst. Cur! Post. 164 ; ClioriUna aiigmtifolia, F. Muell. in Trans, 

 l^hil. Soc. Viet. i. 10; Eriostemon phuUcoides, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 107, and 

 1*1. Vict. i.l3L 



.N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, Sieber, «. 110, Fraser, A. CuH-^ 

 ^^^gham, and others. 



Victoria- Sandy heaths near Mount Tmlny, abundant, F, Mueller. 



Sect. 2. Euphebalium.— The whole plant, or at least the inflorescence 

 and calyx, often also the petals and ovaiy, more or less covered with 

 scurfy peltate scales, often fringed at the edge, those of the ovary often 



