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Jsierolasla.] xxviii. Butace.e, 353 



sprinkled above and more densely clothed underneath with short stellate 

 liairs. Pedicels terminal, usually several together, with short ovate, coloured 

 or leafy bracts at their base. Petals induplicate-valvate, tomentose outside, 

 not large when first expanded, but attaining at length 5 or 6 lines. Stamens 

 20 to 25. Ovary densely stellate-hairy, with 3 short erect lobes. Fruit not 

 ^cn.—PMalium arandijonim, Hook. Ic. Pi. t. 724 : Eriostetuon grandiflorus, 

 F.Muell.Fra-m. 1.105. J J ^ 



W. 



12. CORREA, Sm. 



(Didymeria, LindL) 



Calyx cup-shaped, truncate and 4- or 8-toothed, or 4-lobed- Petals 4, val- 

 ^ vate, connate in a cylindrical or campanulate tube, sometimes separating as the 



flower expands, spreading at the top. Disk shortly lobed. Stamens 8, free; 



anthers without appendages. Ovary of 4 carpels nearly distinct from the base ; 



I .styles inserted above the niiddle,"^ and immediately united into one filiform 



style, with a small often shortly 4dobed stigma; ovnles 2 in each carpel, su- 

 : perposed. Cocci 4, truncate, 2-valved, the endocarp cartilaginous and sepa- 

 ratmg elastically. — Shrubs or rarely small trees, stellate-tomentose or rarely 

 glabrous. Leaves opposite, petlolate, simple. Flowers rather large and 

 showy, red yellow white or green, usually pendulous, solitary or 2 or 3 to- 

 gether, axillary or terminal. Petals usually mealy-tomcntose outside/ 



Tlie genus is limited to Australia. 

 Petals freeafter the flower is expanded. 



Wyx with 4 lanceolate teeth as long as the tube. Pilaments di- 



Jated at the base \, C, €em.ula. 



Calyx truncate, with 4 minute teeth. Filaments filifonn or scarcely 



I p *^'l<tt^!d 2. C: alba. 



*^eMs connate or cohering till they fall oif. 

 ^alyx triitieate, with 1 minute or very broad teeth. 



*our of the filaments dilated below the middle 3. (7. speclosa. 



l^ilanients all equally filiform or scarcely dilated ,..',, 4. C. Lawrenciana. 

 ^alyx with 4 short broad and 4 longer filiform teeth .... 5. (7. decumbent. 



A tall 



often sti- 



1- C.^ aemula, F. Muell Fragm, i. 3, and PL Vict, i. 139, t. 7. 

 shrub, with spreading branches, hirsute or tomentose with stellate o 

 P|tate hairs. Leaves shortly petiolate, orbicular, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 ol)tuse, rarely exceeding 1 in., except in luxuriant baiTen shoots, often slightly 

 cordate, scabrous above, densely tomentose underneath. Pedicels axillary, 

 l-flowered, slender, bearing a pair of small orbicular leafy bracts near the 

 *^*^se, and 2 smaller subidate ones higher up. Flowers pendulous, dull-green 

 ^^ purple. Calyx sprinkled with stellate hairs, the lobes lanceolate acuuii- 

 ^^^fe, usually as'lono- or lon-rer than the tube. Petals linear, about 1 in. long, 



cohering when young, but separating as tlie flower expands. Filaments di- 

 lated and oblong near the base, filiform upwards. Ovary densely hirsute. 

 ^tyle glabrous.— Z)/^^;«e?-/a lemula, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. n. 19S. 



Victoria, Stony shady declivities of the Serra and Victoria ranges, F. Miadler, and 



ft "^A^^' gathered by Mitchell in the snme district. _ _ 



^; Australia. Eocky glens of the Barossa ranges and mountains near Encounter Bay, 



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