434 XXXVI. RHAMNE^. \Spyridiim. 



S. Australia. S. coast, R. Brown; from the month of the Murray to St. Vmcent's 



Gulf, F, Mueller, 



Var. latifolium. More slender and apparently prooumbcnt. Leaves oblong, sometimes 

 rather broadly so, the margins much leas recui'vcd. Flower-heads small. — Victoria and S. 

 Australia. Some specimens seem almost to connect this form ^Yith S. ohovatum. F. Mueller 

 proposes to consider S. vexWifcrum itself as a variety only of S. eriocephahm ; but, besides 

 the floral leaves^ in all the flowers I have examined I have found the disk much closer upon 

 the ovary. It is possible, however, that this character may not be so constant as it has 

 appeared to be. 



23. S. eriocephalum, Fenzl, in Hiieg. Emm, 34. An erect, spreading, 

 or prostrate heath-like shrub, with the young brandies stcUate-tomentose. 

 Leaves linear, rigid, mostly with a short callous or often pungent point, about 

 J or rarely near ^ in, long, the margins closely revolute, glabrous above, the 

 under side usually quite concealed. Flower-heads compound, 2 to 3 lines 

 diameter, sessile or shortly pedunculate, usually with 1 or 2 floral leaves like 

 the cauline ones, but broader. Calyx scarcely 1 line long, hispid with white 

 hairs. Disk lining the calyx-tube and forming a rins: at some distance obove 

 the ovary. Petals clawed. Capsule usually with only one perfect membra- 

 nous coccus. — Cryptandra eriocepltala, Ilook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 72; Spyridhtn 

 prostratum^ Eeissek, in Linnsea, xxix. 284 ; S. unciuatumy Ecissek, 1. c. 289 



(with the leaves more frequently pungent). 



N, S- "Wales. Eurylean scrub, J. Cunningham. 

 Victoria, Desert of the Murray, F, Mueller, 



Tasmania. Derwent river, R. Brown ; dry places ahove Ilobartou and South Esk, 

 Guiin, 

 S. Australia. Arid places from the mouth of the Murray to Spencer's Gulf, F. Mueller. 



24; S. xnicroceplialtun^ Benfh, Apparently procumbent, much- 

 branchedj and heath-like, the young branches slender, with a minute rusty 

 tonientum. Leaves linear, obtuse, with a minute callous point, mostly 2 to 

 3 lines long, the margins closely revolute, glabrous above, the tomentose 

 under side quite concealed. Plowcr-heads compound, compact, seldom above 

 3 lines diameter, terminal or lateral, often with 1 or 2 prominent tomentose 

 floral leaves. Calyx less than 1 line long, glabrous. Disk undulate, close 

 above the ovary. — Cryptandra microcepluila, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1858, i. 

 458. 



^V. Australia, Drummond, hth Coll, n. 234. 



25. S. Tilicinimi, BentJi, Tall, much-branched, and heath-like, the io- 

 meutum hoary or rusty. Leaves crowded, linear or linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 emarginate or shortly bifid, mostly about \ in. long, the margins revolute, gla- 

 brous above or hoar)- when young, the under side hoary with a very close tomcn- 

 tum. Flowers 1 to 3 together, closely sessile amongst the last leaves of short 

 lateral branches, the central one enclosed in 3 or 4 brown imbricate bracts, 

 the lateral ones with 2 each. Calyx about 2^ lines long, silky-hairy, the 

 lobes nearly as long as the free part of the tube. Petals and stamens at 

 the base of the calyx-lobes, in the sinus of the disk, which lines the calyx- 

 tube and forms a thick undulating ring round the throat, at a considerable 

 distance above the ovary, — Cryptandra idiclna. Hook. Joum. Bot. i. 257 ; 

 Hook. f.'Fl. Tasm. i. 72- Steuodiscus uUcintis, Reissek in Linna?a, xxix. 

 296. 



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