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PhehaUum!\ xsviir. rutace.e. -343 



Calyx very short, truncate, with minute or short and broad teeth. Petals 

 barely 2 lines long, slightly imbricate with inflexed valvate tips. Stamens 

 exserted (1 or 2 occasionally wanting) ; filaments glabrous ; anthers tipped 

 by a small gland. Ovary densely covered with white or brown scurfy ciliate 

 scales. Cocci small, broad, obscurely beaked. Seeds scarcely sliiiihi"-. 

 DC. Prod. i. 720 ; A. Juss. in Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. ii. 132 ; F. eUag- 

 folium, A.. Jiiss. h c. 132, t. 11; P. anreum, A. Cunn. in Field, N. S. 

 Wales, 331, with a figure (the specimens not so stunted as represented in the 

 plate) ; J^nosfemon lepidotm, Sin-eng. Syst. ii. 322 ; P. Muell. Fragm, i. 104, 

 and PI. Vict. I 130. 



W. S- "Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R, Brow>iy Sieher, n, 112 (mis- 

 named P. anceps) ; Liverpool plains, A. Cnnningham ; Clarence river, Beckler. 



Victoria- Genoa Peak and river, F, MxieUer, 



Van alpinum. Diffuse, with crowded more coriaceous leaves, rarely exceeding i in, — P. 

 podocarpoides, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. i. 31 \ Eriostemon alpinus, F. MuclL Fragin. 

 1. 103.— Summits of the Australian Alps at an elevation of 5000 to GOOO ft. 



Var< (?) stenoph^Uum, A small shrub. Leaves small, narrow, with the margins of the 

 leaves closely revolute so as to be often almost terete. — In the Grampian Moimtalns and 

 desert of the Tattiara country towards the ^Murray river, F, Mueller. — This form appears to 

 me so constantly distinct, as far as our specimens show, that I should have described it as a 

 separate species, were it not that F. lilucUer includes it without any hesitation in the P. 

 ^quamulosum, and I might thns be adding a nseless synonym. 



18. P, tuberculosiixn, Benth, An erect shrub, with rifjid ratlicr slender 

 brandies, covered with minute scurfy scales and prominent glandular tubercles 

 , as in p. glandnlosum. Leaves narrow-linear, obtuse, rarely above |- in, long, 

 the upper surface channelled, glabrous and tubercular, the under side whitish 

 With scurfy scales, the midrib prominent and tlie margins sometimes re- 

 curved. Flowei^ few, in terminal umbels, scurfy-scaly as well as the pedicels. 

 Calyx small, the lobes or teeth prominent and usually as long at least as the 

 tube. ^ Petals broad, nearly 2 lines long, slightly imbricate with inflexed val- 

 late tips. Stamens exserted, glabrous; anthers without any conspicuous 

 gland. Ovary scaly. — Eriostemon tuberculosus, F, Muell. PL Vict. i. 130. 



/^- Australia, Drummond, w. 63 ; Fitzgerald river, MaxtceU. This and the three 

 following western species, like P. squamuhsum and its allies in the east, are chiefly distin- 

 guished from each other by the foliage, and, as a whole, the four western species scarcely 

 jliffer in anything but the foliage from the four or five eastern ones, except that the teeth or 

 lobes of the ealyx, small as they are, are more prominent, 



19. P, microphyllum, Turcz. in Bull Mosc. 1852, ii. 159. A heath- 

 "ke shrub, the branches covered with scurfy scales. Leaves petiolate or 

 "early sessile, oblong or oblong-linoar, obtuse, 2 to -i lines long, the margins 

 ijevolute, coriaceous, glabrous and shining above, and sometimes slightly ghan- 

 dular, white with minute scurfy sci\les underneath. Flowers few, in sessile 

 terniinal umbels, scurfy-scaly outside as Avell as the pedicels. Calyx small, 

 tae triangular lobes at least as long as the tube. Petals rather smaller and 

 «ot so broad as in F. fiderculosum, but otherwise the same. Cocci small, 

 •^road, obscurely beaked. 



^- Australia. Between Swan River and King George's Sonn<l, Drummond, Uh Coll. 

 • -JOS, and other unnumhered specimens. 



0. P. Dmmmondii, Benth. A small, elegant, much-branched shrub. 



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