354 XXVIII. RUTACE.^. [Correa. 



A. Cunningham's fruiting specimen, referred here by Lindlcy, appears to be ratlier the C, 

 speciosa, with the calyx accidentally split up. 



2. C. alba, Jndr. Bot. Hep. #.18. A compact mucli-branclied shrub, 

 rarely above 3 or 4 ft. liigb, and often much lower, the brancbes clotbed with 

 a hoary or rusty tomentum, either close or almost floccose. Leaves from or- 

 bicular to ovate obovate or elliptical, very obtuse, -I to 1 in. long or rarely 

 more, coriaceous, slightly tomentose or at length glabrous above, densely to- 

 mcntose underneath. Pedicels terminal, very short, solitary or 2 or 3 toge- 

 ther, riowers white or pinlc. Calyx tomentose, truncate, with 4 very small 

 teeth. Petals tomentose outside, not exceeding ^ in., free from their first 

 opening, but connivent in a more bell-shaped and less elongated corolla than 

 the other species. Pilaments equally filiform or scarcely dilated. — Vent. Jard. 

 Malm. t. 13 ; DC. Prod. i. 719 ; Bot. Eeg. t. 515 ; F. MucU. PI. Vict.^ i. 

 135 ; C. cotinifolia, Salisb. Parad. Lond. 1. 100; Mazeutoxeron rufim, Labill. 

 Vov. ii. 13, t. 17 ; G. rvfa. Vent, Jard. Malm, in note to t. 13 ; LabiU. PL 

 NoV. Holl ii. 120; DC. Prod. i. 719 ; Hook. f. PL Tasm. i. 61. 



Victoria. Frequent along the sandy or rocky seashore, R. Brown^ T, Mueller, 



Tasmania^ E. Broivn ; abundant, especially near the coast, /. B. Hooker. 



S. Australia. Oil the coast, extending to St. Vincent's Gulf, F. Mueller; Kangaroo 

 Island, WaterJioiise. 



Var, rotandlfolia. Densely hirsute. Leaves small and hroad. Flowers sessile, terniiiial 

 or in the forks of the upper hranches. — C, rotundifolia, Lindl. in Mitch, Three Exped. ii. 

 219.— Tsfcar the Glcnelg, Mitchell ; apparently not uncommon along the coast of Victoria 

 and S. Australia.- 



3. C. speciosa; AiL Epit, Hort, Keic. 366. A shrub, variable in size 

 and habit, iisiially rigid and low, and rarely exceeding 6 to 8 ft., the stellate 

 tomentum very variable, usually loose and abundant on the branches or some- 

 times on the whole plant, dense and soft on the under side of the leaves, dis- 

 appearing oa the upper surface or sometimes on the whole plant, except the 

 peduncles and flowers. Leaves very shortly petiolate, from broadly ovate or 

 cordate to narrow-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or retuse, usually from f to 

 li in. long, rarely all under 1 in., or tlie larger ones attaining 2 in. Plowers 

 red, varying to white or yellowish-green, terminal, shortly pedicellate and 

 pendulous, or a few rarely erect, solitary or 2 or 3 together. Calyx hoary or 

 rusty-tomentoscj truncate, with 4 minute teeth. Petals hoary-tomentose out- 

 side, xmited the greater part of their length into a cylindrical or slightly cam- 

 pauulate corolla of | to \\ in., with 4 spreading lobes. Stamens exserted, 

 the filaments of those opposite the petals more or less dilated below the mid- 

 dle.— DC. Prod. i. 710 ; F. Muell. PL Yiet. i. 136. 



N- S. "Wales. Port Jackson, K Brown, Sieher\ n. 238 andjd^, and others ; n 

 ward and southward to the limits of the colony, JJm^cutlfuo^ extcmTing inland far beyond 

 the Blue Mountains. 



Victoria. Not rare in heathy and barren rochy localities, not ascending to alpine ele- 

 vations; known to the colonists as Nulive Fuchsia, F, Mueller, 



Tasmania; E. Brown; abundant thronghout the colony, /. D. Hooker. 



S. Australia, rrora the Great Australian Bight to LakeTorrens, F. Mueller, 



"W. Australia. King George's Sound, Maclean. 



I follow F, JMueller in uniting under one name all Correas with a truncate 4-toothcd calyx, 

 united petals, and 4 of the filanieuts dilated. At the same time, although the follo\\-ing 

 races may occasionally be found to pass one into another, yet they appear generally so dis- 

 tinct, that I fee! some hesitation in refusing to recognize them as species. 



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