438 XXXVI. RHAMNE^. {Cnjpiandra. 



Calyx urceolatc-glotular, densely covered with wLitc wool . . 7. C. lanosiflora. 

 Calyx-loLcs as long as the tube or longer. 



Calyx campauulate, usually 1 line long or more, and glabrous 



outside at the base 8. C. tomentosa. 



Calyx very open, under 1 line" tomeutose all over ..... 9. C. nutans. 



Calyx glabrous, divided almost to the base 10. C. glahfiflora. 



Mowers often large^ pubescent or hairy (except 0. f/labrijlora), sessile. 

 Browu bracts broad, imbricate, covering the whole or a great 

 portion of the calyx-tube. 



Leaves broadly ovate, flat, mostly \ in. long 15. (7. huxlfolia. 



Leaves narrow and heath-like or minute, the margins revolute. 



Stems slender, prostrate. Calyx-lobes shorter than the tube . 11. C. alp'ina. 

 Stems rigid, divaricate. Calyx small, glabrous, divided almost 



to the base , 10. C. glalrifiora. 



Stems rigid, divaricate. Calyx silky-hairy, usually above 2 lines, 

 the lobes narrow, about equalling the tube. 

 Leaves slender, about 1 line long .....,.,, 12. C. Iciicopogon. 



Leaves slender, mostly 2 to 3 lines long 13. C. propmqua. 



Leaves minute, obovoid^ mostly I line long 14. <7. panifolia. 



Flowers very small, pedicellate within the minute bracts. 



Flowers pubescent 16. C. pungens. 



Flowers glabrous • , - . VI, C, mutila. 



Sect, 2. "^Vlcliurea. — Dlslc glahrous or villous, distinct from the ovary, tisualhj an-' 

 milar. Calyx glabroits or very slightly tomentose. 



Leaves linear, with revolute margins. 



Calyx campanulate, deeply lobcd. Disk and ovary glabrous . . 18. C. I on gist amine a. 

 Calyx ovoid, not 1 line long. Disk glabrous. Summit of the 



ovary villous 20. C. iniliaris. 



Calyx tubular, about 2 lines long. Disk villous. Summit of the 



ovary glabrous 19. C arhutijlora. 



Leaves spathulatc or lincar-cuncate. Calyx tubular, about 2 lines 



long. Disk and ovary glabrous 21. C. nadijlora, 



(C. australis, a name attributed to Smith by Roera. and Schult. Syst. iv. 872, is imaginary, 

 made up of apart of Smith's generic character with the generic habitat. C, spiuosa, A. Cunn., 

 quoted by Don under Solenantha {IIymena7ithera), is also imaginary ; Cunningham, in the 

 place referred to. Field, N. S. "Wales, 352, gives no name to the plant.) 



Section 1. Cryptandra. — Disk usually pubescent, continuous with the 

 summit of tlie ovary, either undistinguishable from it or forming a slightly 

 prominent ring round it. Some of the first species pass almost into Steuan- 

 tJienmm. 



/ 1. C. ericifoHa, Sm, in Trans. Linn. Soc, x. 294, /. IS,/. 1. Branches 

 elongated and twiggy, witli few smaller branclilets, always unarmed, more or 

 less pubescent witli simple appressed hairs. Leaves liuoar-tcrete or with a 

 slightly prominent midrib, 2 to 4 lines long, often clustered or crowded, 

 glabrous or pubescent with simple appressed hairs. Flowers crowded in Utile 

 terminal heads surrounded by leafy bracts, and each flower by several imbri- 

 cate, acuminate, and ciliatc brown bracts, often half as long as the calyx. 

 Calyx uarrow-campanulate, about 2 linos long, silky-hairy outside, the lobes 

 short and spreading. Ovary very small, slightly projecting above the very 

 short adnate part. Style pubescent at the base. Disk inconspicuous. Cocci 

 opening in 2 valves. — C, cajntata, Sieb. PL Exs. 



Mr, S. Wales. Moist heaths near Sydney, R, Broiai, A, Cunningham, Sieber, n. CG' 

 and others, hut apparently not very conuaon. 



