352 XXVlll. EUTACEiE. [Jsterolasia. 



in the centre where the styles are inserted. Stigma deeply divided into oblong, 

 reflexed, densely papillose lobes. Cocci totnentose, truncate, not beaked. 

 Seeds smooth and shining.— Eriostemon tryuialioides, E. iluell. Fragni. i. 106, 

 and PI. Yict. i. 1 34. 



N, S. "Wales, Mount Kosciusko, F. Mueller. 



Victoria. On the highest siuninits of t^e Australian Alps, not descending below 5000 ^ 



ft. elevation, F, Mueller, 



Section 2^. Urocatifus. — Ovary 2- or 3-merous. 



7. A. squamixligera, Bentli. A weak shrub or undershrub, tlie younger 

 branches covered with minute scurfy scales, often fringed with short rigid hairs. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, ^ to near 1 in. long, rather thick, nerveless, 

 narrowed into a short petiole. Flowers few, in terminal umbels, suiTOimded 

 by short coloured bracts, with occasionally 1 or 2 longer leafy ones. Pedicels 

 slender, rarely exceeding \ in. Calyx very minute. Petals narrow -ovate, 3 

 to 3|- lines long. Stamens 10. Ovary of 2 or rarely 3 carpels, forming erect 

 lobes, nan-owed upwards, covered with scurfy scales. Stigma divided into 2 

 or 3 large reflexed lobes. Cocci, when young, obtusely acuminate and erect, 

 but not seen ripe. — Phelalium squomnligerum^ Hook. Ic. PL t. 727; Erio- 

 Hteimn Jlooheri^ F. Muell, Pragm. i. 104. 



V/". Australia. Between Swan River and King George*s Sound, Drummond. 



8. A. pallida, Benih. Branches weak, almost herbaceous, clothed with 

 stellate hairs, sometimes slightly imited into scales. Leaves distinctly petio- 

 late, ovate or orbicular, very obtuse, 3 to 5 lines long, flat, sprinkled above 

 and more densely covered underneath with stellate hairs. Pedicels l-flowered, 

 axillary and solitary, or several together in terminal umbels, with small or leafy 

 bracts at theh- base. Petals 2 to T\ lines long, iuduplicute-valvate, the part 

 exposed in the bud stellate-tomentose* Stamens 10 to 15. Ovary densely 

 stellate-haiiy, consisting of 2 carpels, with 2 short erect lobes, between which 

 the styles are inserted. Cocci beaked, the conical beaks remaining erect for 

 some time after the flow^ering is over, becoming somewhat lengthened and di- 

 varicate at the fruit ripens. 



Mr 



9. A. pIiel>alioides, Bentli. Branches elongated, often appearing gla- 

 brous, but really clothed with a minute stellate pubescence. Leaves on rather 

 long petioles, orbicular, ovate or oblong, obtuse, mostly under \ in. long, 

 rarely \ in. Pedicels slender, either in terminal umbels soon becoming lateral, 

 or 2 or 3 together in the upper axils. Plowers as in A. pallida, at least when 

 fully out. Ovary stellate-haiiy, truncate and not lobed, the 2 carpels united 

 at the top, and retaining the shape for some time after flowering, the outer 

 angles at length growing out into long horizontally divergiui? beaks.— f^^^^- 

 carpus phebalioides, Drumm. in Hook. Kew Journ. vii. 55 ; Ermtemon Drum- 

 iuoudiiy F. MuclL Fragm. i. 105. 



\ir. Australia. Mount Lesueur, Drummond, 



10. A. grandifiora^ BenUi. Branches rather slender, clothed with 

 short stellate hairs. Leaves shortly petiolate, ovate or oblong, obtuse, mostly 

 under \ in. long, the margins recurved, the midrib prominent underneath, 



