348 XXVIII. KUTACEiE, [Gdeznowia. 



except that they are not so thick- Flowers large, the sepals narrow as in 

 G. verrucosa, but attaining \ in. Petals nearly 5 lines. Cocci (not yet fully 

 rijie) more than twice as long as broad, narrowed at the top, attaining about 

 3 lines, covered upwards \vith wart-like glands. 



MT, Australia. Murchisou river, Oldfield, 



3. G. calycina, BenlA. Eigid and erect, glaucous, and often turning 

 yellow in drying, glabrous, or with a few hairs under the flowers. Leaves 

 crowded, obovate or oblong, obtuse, in some specimens 2 to 3 lines long, m 

 gthers attaining ^ in., the uppermost passing into scpaUlikc bracts. Sepals 

 broadly ovate or almost orbicular, attaining 4 or 5 lines. Petals very much 

 shorter and narrower. Ovaiy covered with wart -like scales. Style rather short. 

 Cocci (not yet quite ripe) not half so long as the petals, as broad as long, 

 rounded at the top. T-Saud/ordla calycma, Drumm, in Hook. Kew Joum.vii. 54 ; 

 Ermtemon Sandfordii, T. Mucll. Fragin. i. 107. 



VT. Anstralia. SauJ plains. Hill river, and S. of the Imiu, Brtimmond ; Murchisou 

 river, Ohljield, 



9. PHILOTHECA, Eudge. 



Calyx. 5-cleft. Petals 5, imbricate in the bud. Disk slightly lobed. 

 Stamens 10, shorter than the petals; filaments united into a glabrous tube 

 at the base, free upwards, and very hairy ; anthers oblong, all perfect, minutely 

 apiculate. Carpels 5, nearly distinct from the base ; styles inserted below the 

 middle, and immediately united in a single style, hirsute in the middle; 

 stigma small. Ovules 2 in each carpel, superposed. Cocci truncate, 2-valved, 

 the endocai-p cartibginous and separating elastlcally. — Erect, heath-like 

 .shrubs, glabrous, or nearly so. Leaves crowded, alternate, narrow-linear. 

 Flowers terminal, nearly sessile, solitary or two or three together. 



A genus entirely Australian, differing from Eriostemon, with which F. Mueller unites it, 

 only in the inonadelphous stamens. 



Leaves obtuse, mostly under 3 lines long ....,,♦. 1. P, amtralis. 

 Leaves acutc^ mostly above 3 lines long . • ^ 2. P. Reickenbachiana. 



\. P. australis, Rndge, in Trans, Linn, Soc. xi. 298, t. 21- Glabrous 

 or sprinUed with a mniute pubescence. Leaves nnmerous, Ijnear, obtuse, 

 rarely exceedhig 3 lines, rather thick, flat or channelled above, veiy convex 

 nnderaeath, or almost terete. Tlowers usually solitaiy, but sometimes 2 or 

 3 together. Sepals small, broadly triangidar. Petals 3 or 4 lines long, 

 broadly lanceolate, minutely hoary-pubcscent on both sides, except a broad 

 glabrous central line outside. Stamens rather shorter than the petals. Cocci 

 shortly hi^'AcH.—Erioslemon salsoUfoUus, Sra. in E^cs, Cycl. xiii. 



Wr. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Broim, Sieher, nJ^M^^xSi others. „. 



Var. parvifora.^ Leaves more ciliate. FloweiTWKcli smaller: the petals scarcely H 

 hnes long.— i*. ciliata, Iluok. iu Mitch. Trop. Anstr. 347. 

 \ Queensland. Near Mount Faraday, Mitchell. ' 



2. P. Reichenbacliianti, Sleb,; Spreng. SysL Cur. PosL 253. Veiy 

 near P. amlralis, witli which 1\ Mueller proposes to unite it, but the leaves 

 always appear to be acute and longer, although rarely exceeding i m., the 

 point sometimes quite pungent. Flowers usually larger than in P. austrahs, 



