TrymaUim.l xxxvi. riiamn zm. 425 



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low heatii-llkc slirub, with erect twio;gy branches, hoary with sLort stiff hairs. 

 Leaves linear, mostly 3 to 4 lines long, the margins much revohite, hispid 

 with stiff hairs, hoary or-silky underneath. Flowers very small, in axillary 

 cymes, forming short, dense, terminal, raceme-Hke leafy panicles of | to 1 in. 

 Bracts minute. Pedicels short. Calyx-tube very hairy. Petals rather shorter 

 than the calyx-lobes, with a lateral concave lobe on each side almost as large 

 as the central one, and contracted below the lobes into a short claw. Disk 

 annular. Capsule 1^^ to 1^ lines diameter, globular, very hispid and acumi- 

 nate with the persistent base of the style. Cocci almost 'membranous, appa- 

 rently indehiscent. 



^V. Australia, Swan River, Brnmmond, \st Coll. 



5. T. Wichurae, 'Rees; Eeissek, in PL Freiss, ii. 281. A mueh- 

 hranched slender shrub, the young branches and both sides of the leaves 

 hoiiry with a minute close tomentum. Leaves obovate-cuneate or spathulate, 

 very obtuse or rarely emarginate, 2 to 4 lines long, much contracted at the 

 base. Flowers very small, 2 to 4 together in little terminal cymes. Calyx 

 about f line long, minutely hoary. Disk prominent. Petals small, hood- 

 shaped, entire. Ovary 2-ceiled. Style mhmtely 3-lobed at the top. Capsule 

 obovoid, 1^ lines long, the exserted portion very obtuse and shorter than the 



adnate tube, splitting to the base into 2 valves, the 2 cocci opening in 2 

 valves. 



j^y^' Australia, Swan lliver, Drummoiid ; between Perth and King George's Sound, 

 narvey; King George's Sound, Wilson's River, nnd Hay luk't, Ma.rwelL 



9. SPYRIDIUM, Fenzl. 



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(Stcnodiscus, Rtissek.) 



Calyx-tube entirely aduate or shortly free above the ovary, bnt not above 

 the disk, the limb divided to the disk into 5 usually persistent lobes. Petals 

 5, hood-shaped, usually enclosing the anthers. Stamens 5 ; filaments short; 

 anthers small, ovoid. Disk annidar or divided into 5 glands, either close 

 J'ound tlie ovary and filling the calyx-tube, or lining the calyx-tnbe when pro- 

 duced above the ovary. Ovary wholly inferior, 3-celled. Style entire or mi- 

 mitely 3-toothed. Capsule enclosed in the calyx-tube and crowned, by the 

 persistent lobes, 3-valved at the top, the endocarp separating into 3, some- 

 tunes reduced to 2 or 1, membranous or rarely crustaceous cocci, either in- 

 dehiscent or opening inwards by a longitudinal slit. Seeds of Fomaderris. — 

 Shrubs, with the indumentum of Pomaderris. Leaves usually small. Sti- 

 pules scarious, brown, lanceolate, usually connate and persistent. Flowers 

 sessile in heads or rarely solitary, surrounded by small, persistent, imbricate, 

 brown scarious bracts, the heads small, sessile, usually several together in a 

 compound head or in corymbose cymes, the outer heads in each haviiig often a 

 floral leaf, either like the stem-leaves, or smaller and broader, on a longer peti- 

 ole and whiter, the head having the appearance of being inserted on the petiole, 



^ The genus is eutirely Australian and extratroplcah It differs from Trymalium chiefly in 

 mfloresceuce and habit, from SlcnaHthemum aud Cr>/ptandra in the calyx-tube not produced 

 above the disk. 



