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StenantliemimJ] xxxvi, rhamne^e. 437 



species, the floral leaves like tliose of the stem^ or broader^ flatterj and more to- 

 mentose. Brown bracts 3 under each flower, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate. 

 Calyx above 1 line long, tlie tube hirsute with spreading hairs, narrow-turbi- 

 nato, produced above the disk as in other Slenauihema, but not so slender. 

 Disk undulate-lobed, shortly adnate to the calyx-tube, but at a considerable 

 distance from the lobes and the petals. Fruiting-calyx 2 lines long. Cocci 

 coriaceous, ii\&ii\\iscoi\t,---Spyridium Waterliouui, F. Muell. Tragm. iii. 83. 



S. Australia. Kangaroo Island, Waterhouse, 



11. CRYPTANDRA, Sm. 



(Wichurea, Nees.) 



Calyx-tube adherent at the base, free, campanidate or tubular and persis- 

 tent above the ovary and disk, 5-lobed at the top or to the middle. Petals 

 5j hood-shaped, enclosing the anthers and inserted with the stamens at the 

 top of the calyx-tube. Disk annular, or often scarcely prominent round the 

 top of the ovary, at the base of the calyx-tube. Ovary wholly inferior, or 

 slightly prominent in the calyx-tube, 3-celled. Style entire or minutely 3- 

 toothed. Capsule enclosed in the base of the persistent calyx-tube but often 

 partially free within it, the eiulocai-p or the whole capsule separating into 3 

 crustaceous or rarely membranous cocci usually opening inwards in 2 valves. 

 Seeds of Fomadenis. — Shrubs, mostly heath-like or thorny. Leaves small, 

 narrow, often clustered, rarely ovate and flat, often nearly cylindrical, the 

 lender surface usually tomentose and whitish, but often concealed by the 

 closely revolute margins. Flowers sessile or shortly pedicellate, mostly sur- 

 rounded by persistent imbricate brown bracts, either distinct along the smaller 



brauches or clustered in terminal spikes or heads intermixed with leaves, never 

 in cymes. 



A genus conGucJ to Australia. Like the majority of Rkamneay it is cliiefly distinguished 

 by habit. The floral characters of the first section are nearly those of Sienauiliemum, of 

 the second scarcely distiuet from Discaria, those of C. fflabrifora almost as iu Sjpr/ridinm. 



Sii-CT. 1. Cryptandra. — Bisk usttalltf pubescent, conihiuous with the summit of the 

 ovary^ either undlstinrjuUhahle from it or forming a slighthj jirominent ring round it. 



Flowers pubescent or hairy, closely sessile iu terminal or lateral heads. 



Brown bracts acumiuate. 

 Calyx tubular. 



Heads mauy-flowered. Calyx narrow. Ovary almost entirely 



inferior 1. C. ericifoJia. 



Heads few- flowered. Calyx rather broad. Free part of the 



ovary longer than the adnate base 2. C. kispidula. 



Calyx very small, broadly campaiiulate. Flower-heads densely 



globular. 



Flower-heads terminal 3. (7. spyridloidcs, 



Kower-heads lateral 4. C scoparia, 



^lowers pubescent or hairy (except C. glabriflora), sessile in spikes 

 or short heads, or not crowded. Brown bracts obtuse, very much 

 shorter than the calyx-tube, 

 t^alyx 1 line long or more, the lube longer than the lobes. 



Culyx narrow, glabrous outside at the base, tomentose above. 



Adnate base of the ovary longer than the free top .... 5. C. spineseens. 

 Calyx broadly campanulate or ureeolate, tomentose all over. 



Free part of the ovary lon;^cr than the adnate base .... 6. (7. amara. 



