342 XXVIII. rutaceyE. [Phehalium. 



closely imbricate in one mass. Petals laterally inrbricate or rarely almost 

 valvate in the bud^ with inflexed valvute tips, 



14. P. ozothamnoides^ F. MuelL in Trans. Fid. Inst, i. 31. A rigid 

 shrub, the branches brown with scurfy scales. Leaves obovate, very obtuse, 

 under \ in. long, the margins recurved, narrowed into a short petiole, thick, 

 coriaceous, glabrous and shining above when full-grown, white underneath 

 with scurfy scales mixed Avith stellate hairs which are also sprinkled on the 

 upper surface of the young leaves, Flowers few, in small terminal sessile 

 umbels, like those of P. squamulosmn in size and structure as well as in the 

 scurfy scales. — Eriostemon ozothainnoides, T^. Muell. Fragm, i. 103. 



z 



Victoria- Mitta-Mitta, Cabongra, and Livingstone rivers, F. Mueller. 



15. P. obcordatum, J, Cunn. Herb. A small densely-branched shrub, 

 silvei-y -white or hoary wnth scurfy scales. Leaves distinctly petiolate, either 

 broadly obcordate and about 1 line long, or in luxuriant specimens broadly 

 cuneate and attaining 2 lines, very obtuse and emarginate, flat, rather thick, 

 glabrous above wnth 2 to 4 large prominent glands, silvery underneath, 

 blowers much smaller than in the allied species, few on short pedicels at the 

 et\ds of the branches and uppermost axils, forming short terminal leafy co- 

 rj^mbs. Structure of the flowers as in P. squamulosmn, 



N. S. V/ales. S.W. of St. George's Eaiige, A. Cu?ininghain, 



16. P. glandulosum. Hook, in Mitch. Trap. Anstr, 199. Very closely 

 allied to some of the smaller much-branched fonns of P. squamulosum^ with 

 the same scuiTy indumentum, inflorescence, and flowers, and recently united 

 with that species by P. Mueller (PL Yict. i, 130). It appears however to 

 me to diiter sufficiently in the leaves, which are narrowly lincar-cuneate, emar- 

 ginatc or almost 2-lobed at the end, with revolute or recurved margins varying 

 from 2 or 3 lines to f in. in length. In the ordinary form also the branches 

 and leaves are covered with large glandular tubercles.— P. sedijlorum, F- 

 Muell. in Trans. "Vict, Inst. i. 30: Eriostemon sedifloriis, P. Muell. Fragni. 

 1.102. ^ 



Queensland. On the Upper Maranoa, Mlic/ielL 

 W. S. "Whales. Eurylcan scrub, J. Cunningham, 

 Victoria. Siiowy Iliver, Piuch Mountains, and the N.W. desert of the colony, -F- 



Mueller. 



S. Australia. Exteudlng to Lalie Torrens, F, Mueller. 



Vnr. (?) LavlesL Leaves narro\v4mear, broader and cmarniiate at the end as in the 



ordinary form, but the glandular tvibnxlcs few or nonQ,~P? Laviesi, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. 

 n. 3o8. ' 



■ Tasinania. E coast near St. Helen's Bay, 7)^?;?V^. The ovary, in the flowers I have 

 esaunucd, has the [H-ltate scurfy scales of the allied species. 



y 17. P. squamulosum, Fent. lard. Mnlm.'t. 102. An erect shrub, 

 /var}'ing m height but never arboreseeut, the yonn^ branches browu with 

 scurfy scales. Leaves shortly petiolate, oblong or finear, obtuse but often 

 mucronulate, ^ to 1^ in. long, somewhat eoriaeeous, the margins flat or 

 slightly rcciu'ved, smooth above or slightly glandular-tuberculate, covered un- 

 derneath with scu]fy peltate scales. Flowers yellow, in terminal sessile, 

 simple or compound umbels or corymbg, not exceeding the last leaves, the 

 pedicels, calyx, and petals covered with comparatively large scurfy scales.. 



