Pomaderris!\ xxxvi. riiamnej:. 423 



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Tasm. i. 78 ; Eeissek, in Linnsea, xxix. 270 ; F.polifolia, EeisseTc, in Linnaea, 

 xxix. 269. 



Victoria- Banks of suLalpIue streams under the Australian AlpSj descending into tlic 

 plains of Gipps' Land on the Hume and Murray rivers, ¥, Mueller, 



Tasmania. Mersey river, Gitnn ; St. Paul's river, C. Stuart, 



Pound also abundantly in the northern island of New Zealand. Some specimens of P. 

 ledlfolia come near to this species in habit, but they may be readily known when in flower 

 by the petals, and in fruit by the very truncate or depressed apex of the capsi Je. 



Var. latifolia. Leaves oblong, J to 1 in. long, the margins scarcely revolute. — Genoa 

 river la Victoria, F. Mueller. 



8. TRYMALIUM, Penzl, 



Calyx-tube entirely aduate to the ovary, the limb dindcd to the base into 

 5 lobes, usually deciduous or spreading. Petals 5, hood-shaped, entire or 3- 

 lobed, but not usually enclosing the anthers. Stamens 5, the filaments 

 rather short, incurved, with small, ovoid anthers. Disk annular or divided 

 into 5 glands, surrounding the ovary at the base of the oalyx-lobes. Ovary 

 talf-inferior or almost entirely inferior, 3- or rarely 2-celled. Style S-cleft or 

 rately 2-cleft at the top or to the middle. Capsule protruding above the ad- 

 nate calyx-tube or rarely on a level with it, the endocarp separating into 

 crustaceous or rarely membranous cocci, indchisccnt or open internally in 2 

 valves. Seeds of Pomaderris, — Shrubs, with the habit and deciduous sti- 

 pules and bracts oi Pomaderrh, but with smaller Howers and a more slender 

 inflorescence, the panicles usually narrow, or the cymes few-flowcrcd. Flowers 

 always pedicellate. 



The species are all confined to "West Australia, 



Paiiicles or racemes elongated, terminal, or longer than the leaves. 

 Leaves ovate or broadly oblong, flat. 



Leaves hoary on the upper side with a minute tomentuni • . • 1.7. albicans. 



Leaves glabrous above, or hirsute 2. Z BiUardieri, 



Leaves hnear-obloug or linear, the margins revolute Z. T, ledifoliiim. 



Cymes few-ilowered, shorter than or scarcely exceeding the leaves. 

 Leaves linear. Ovary 3-cclkd. 



Petals entire %. T, ledlfonmn. 



Petals 3-lobed 4. H angtistifoUunu 



Leaves cuneate, hoary on both sides. Ovary 2-celIed . . - • 6. ^l Wichurc^. 



1. T. albicans, Reissel\ in PI Preiss. ii. 280. Apparently a tall shrub, 

 the branches white or hoary with a close stellate tomentuni. Leaves broadly 

 ovate or obovate, very obtuse, 1 to 2 in. long, soft and more or less hoary on 

 the upper side, white underneath with a minute down. Plowers in thyrsoid 

 terminal panicles, larger and fewer than in T, BillardierL Calyx fidly; 1 line 

 long, white with a close tomentuni. Capsule very obtuse, ]| lines in dia- 

 nieter, the broad stellately pubescent exscrted portion as long as the turbinate 

 aduate base ; cocci crustaceous, niurlcate or wrinkled on the inner face, ap- 

 parently mA^hhccnL—Pomadenis albicans, Stcud. in PL Preiss. i. 184. 



W. Australia, Swan River, Dnimmond, Uh ColL n. 229; sides of Mount Eliza, 



Preiss, n. 1089. 



2. T. BiUardieri, Fensl, in Ilneg, Enmn. 25. A tall shrub, the young 

 branches hoary with stellate hairs and often villous with simi)lc ones. Leaves 



