Thilotheca.'] xxviii, rutace.'E. 349 



and the hairs of tW upper part of the filaments so long and dense as com^ 

 pletely to cover the anthers.—Keichb. Icon. Exot. t. 200 (incon-ect as to 

 carpological details); P. lonffifoUa, Tiircz. in BuU. Mosc. 1849, il IQ. 



"• ®* VITales. Port Jackson, jR. Brown, Sieber, n. SJjg, and others; in the interior to 

 the northward of Bathurst, A, Camiingham. 



P, Gaudlchaudi, G, Don, Gen. Syst. i. 792, from N. S, Wales, is not described so as to 

 be recognizable, • 



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10. DRUMMONDITA, Harv. 



Sepals 5,- short. Petals 5, erect, concave, imbricate in the bud. Dislc 

 fleshy, 5-lobed, Stamens 10, the fiiainents united into a long hairj' tube, free 

 at the top, 5 longer ones without anthers, plumose with long hairs, 5 shorter 

 ones bearing anthers bearded on the back, acute at the top. Carpels 5, 

 glabrous, free from the base; styles inserted near their summit, and imme- 

 diately united into one filiform style ; stigma capitate. Fruit unknown. — 

 fehrub with heath-like leaves, and solitary terminal yellowish flowers, 



ihe genus is Uinited to a single species, and appears from the character to differ from 

 ^fiiiot/iecaonly in the abortion of half the anthers. The only specimen, however, which I 

 flave seen, is a mere fragment iusufficLent for proper .examination, and I am therefore im- 

 ^'lUiog to make any change without further mformation. 



^ 1. !>• ericoides, Ilarv. 'in ffooL Kew Journ. vii. 53. An erect, brancli- 

 ^i^g> heath-like shrub. Leaves crowded, liuear, semiterete, channelled above, 

 ciholate, with a large terminal gland, and spriukled with black glauduUir dots. 

 -rlowers terminal, solitary, erect, almost sessile. ^ Petals yellowish, gr 

 the extremity. Staminal tube longer than the p'etals, white-tomentose out- 

 side, purple above the middle, sparingly pubescent inside. 



w^. Australia. Near the summit of White Teak, /. Drummond, 



ecti at 



11. ASTEBOLASIA, F. Muell. 



(Urocarpus, Dnimm.) 



Calyx very minute or ol)Solete. Petals 5, tomentose outside, ralvate and 

 usually induplicate in the bud. JMsk none. Stamens 10 or niore, free, fila- 

 ments filiform, glabrous or very slightly ciliate, anthers not apiculate. Carpels 

 2 to 5, united to the middle, or nearly to the top, into a single shortly-lobed 

 or truncate ovary of 2 to 5 cells. Style inserted between the lobes, filiform, 

 J^ith a large refiexed peltate or deeply-lobed stigma. Cocci tardily separating, 

 truncate, and often beaked, 2-valved ; endocarp cartilaginous, separating elas- 

 tically, — Shrubs or undershrubs, more or less stcllate-tomcntose, or, in one 

 ^pecies, the tomentura united into scurfy scales. Leaves alternate, simple, 

 blowers sessile or pedicellate, axillary or terminal, solitaiy^ or few together. 



The genus is limited to* Australia, and, with several of the preceding ones, has been re- 

 cently united with Erlodemon by F. Mueller ; but the union of the carpels, more complete 

 ^"an in the exceptional ^no^/'^wtj/z traclnjj^hi/nus, the large refiexed stigma, the great re- 

 duction or abortion of the calvx, and the astivatiou of the petals, are accompanied by dif- 

 ferences in habit, which seem fully to justify the maintenance of the genus. I have now 

 added Vrocarpua, Dnimm., as a section, for, on a detailed examination of all the species, 

 lae differences are reduced to the number of carpels of the ovary, which is variable. The 

 tiunoua tendency to an increase in the usual number of stamens is observable in some species 

 01 both sections. 



