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Sj)p'uUnm.] XXXVI. uhamne^. 435 



Tasmania. Commoa on the banks of the Derwcnt above New Norfolk and Launccston, 

 also on the summit of Mount Welliugton, Ga?in. Altliough this differs from other Sj)?/ne/ia, 

 and approaches Stenaiithemtim and Cryptandra in the greater length of the calyx-tube and 

 almost separate flowers, yet the disk is as iu Spi/ridinm, aud it appears better to consider it 

 an extreme form of that genus than a monotypic genus as proposed by Reissek. 



10. STENAINTTHEMUM, Eeissek. 



Flowers sessile in heads, surroiHided by small, persistent, imbricate brown 

 bracts. Calyx -tube adherent at the base, free, slender, and often deciduous 

 above the ovary and disk, 5-lobed at the top. Petals 5, hood-sbaped, en- 

 closing the anthers aud inserted with the stamens at the top of the calyx-tube. 

 Disk .scarcely prominent, round the top of the ovary at the base of the 

 calyx-tube. Ovary wholly inferior, S-cclled. Style entire ov minutely 3- 

 toothed. Capsule enclosed in the base of the calyx-tube^ which is often 

 contracted over it or deciduous ; the endocarp separating into 3 membranous 

 or crustaeeous cocci opening in 2 valves. Seeds oi Pomaderrh, — Shrubs, with 

 the habit of Spyridium. Flowers sessile, in heads, or in one species in a 

 cyme, surrounded by small, persistent, imbricate brown bracts, and soznetimes 

 with 1 or 2 floral leaves, as in Spyridhmu 



Tbe genus is confined to Australia. The floral characters are those of CnjjAandra^ with 

 the inflorcsccuce of Bpijridiitm. 



■Leaves obovate, obcordatc, or broadly oblong. 



Leaves rusty-tomentoac underneath ... * 1. S. jiomaderroides. 



liCaves densely silky uudcrxieath. Erect or ascending and 2uuch 



brauclied 2. 5. leucophradnm. 



Leaves closely wlntc-tomentosc underneath. Stems prostrate . , 3. S, pime/eoi'des, 



Lcares linear-cuueate, emai'riiiate or tootlieJ ■ , 4. xS. corouatum. 



Leaves narrow-linear^ the niargins closely revolnte. 



Flower-heads dense. Calyx tube narrow, very densely hirsute . . 5. 5. humile. 



Flowcr-cymes loose. Calyx tube sliort, loosely hirsute . . . . 6. A WaterJiousli. 



1- S. pomaderroides, Reissek, in Limi^a, xxix, 295. Branches wiiy. 



elongated, above 1 ft. long in onr specimens. Leaves distant, obovate or 

 oblong, obtuse or with a reeun^ed point, often ^ in. long or even more, nar- 

 rowed into a petiole, folded lengthwise or concave, hoary or at length nearly 

 glabrous above, rusty or wdiite-tomentose underneath. Flower-heads 3 to 5 

 lines diameter, surrounded by 2 or 3 flora! leaves. Brown bracts numerous, 

 ovate or oblong, nearly as long as the flowers. Calyx 2^ lines long, silky- 

 tomentose outside, tubular but iiot very slender. Anthers obtuse. — Cri/pta7i- 

 dra pomaderroides, Reissek, in Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 29, and PI. Prciss. ii. 

 288 (from the description) ; Cryptandra tridentata^ fi tomentosa^ lleissek, I.e. 

 289, and therefore included iwStenantJiemum tridentalum^ Reissek, inLinnavi, 

 xxix. 295. 



W. Australia, D^ummondy «. 212; Murchison river, Oldjleld, 



phractum 



A low, erect or 



ascending, very much branched shrub, sometimes only a few iuelies, sonu'times 

 several feet high, the young branches rusty-tomentose. Leaves obovate or ob- 

 cordate, with a recurved point, about \ in. long, folded lengthwise and nar- 

 rowed into a distinct petiole, tire upper surface white with a close soft to- 



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