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CryptandraJ] xxxvi. RHAAraE/E. 439 



r 3. C- hispidiila^ Beisseh, in Linnaa, xxix. 294, Very near C. erici" 



folia^ but the leaves are smaller and more frequently pubescent^ the flowers 

 kv^'QT, more silky, the calyx rather broader, 1 1- to 3 lines long when fully out, 

 and the free part of the ovary within the calyx is much longer than the ad- 

 nate portion. 



S. Australia. Encounter Bay and St. Vincent's Gulf, F. Mueller, Whittalcer. 



^ 3. C. spyridioides, Z Muell. Fragm,\\\. 68. A low, much-branched' 

 divaricate shnib, rarely spincscent, the young branches minutely hoary. 

 Leaves oblong-linear, obtuse, 2 to 3 lines long, the margins revolute, green 

 and usually glabrous above, often hoary or whitish underneath -with a minute 

 tomentum. Flowers vcrj^ small, in dense terminal globular heads. Brown 

 bracts fringed or ciliate, not half so long as the calyx. Calyx silky-pubescent, 

 about 1 line long, the adnate base narrow, the tube carapanulate above the 

 ovary, the lobes rather shorter than the tube. Summit of the ovary much de- 

 pressed, thickened round the ed^rc into an obscure disk. 



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Murchison river, Oldjleld, Very closely allied to (7. scoparia. 



4. C. scoparia, Reissek^ in PI, Preiss. ii. 383. A rigid shrub, the 

 branches in the original specimens virgate, heath-like, and seldom spinous, in 

 others divaricately branched and frequently spinescent, very slightly hoaiy 

 niien young. Leaves linear, obtuse, 2 to 3 lines long, or in luxuiiant spcci- 

 n^ens rather acute and attaining 3 or 4 lines, the margins revolnte so as to 

 l>e almost terete, usually glabrous. "Flowers in dense globular clusters, 

 almost sessile along the principal branches, and surrounded by a few short 

 floral leaves, or borne on very short leafy branches, often above 3 lines dia- 

 nietcr when fully out. Each flower sessile within 3 or 4 broad, brown, sca- 

 bious, ciliate or fringed, shortly pointed bracts, about half as long as the 

 ^^^)'X. Calyx when first open about ^ line long and silky-pubescent, when 

 fully out about 1 line long and nearly glabrous, or with a tuft of long hairs 

 on each lobe, broadly campanulate, the lobes longer than the tube. Summit 

 of the ovaiy much depressed, thickened round the edge into an obscure disk. 



W, Australia. Swan River, Bnmmond ; sandy woods near Perth, Preiss, n, 1215- 

 Var. microcephala. More branched with numerous slender spiues. Flowery and heads 

 small, Murchison river, Oldjleld. 



5- C. spinescenSy Sieh. in DC. Prod. ii. 38. Nearly allied to C. amara, 

 and with nearly the same foliage, but the branches arc usually more twiggy 

 and the spinous branchlcts more densely crowded. Leaves usually linear or 

 linear-oblong, 2 or rarely 3 lines long, but occasionally small and obovate. 

 riowcrs smaller than in (7. amara, and more distinctly although veiy shortly 

 pedicellate. Calyx 1-;^^ to 2 lines long, narrow-canipanulatc, the adnate base 

 glabrous and suddenly contracted into a little stipes about the length of tlie 

 imbricate brown bracts, the free part white-tomcntose outside. Ovary almost 

 entirely inferior, the pubescent summit slightly prominent above the atinate 

 Pjirt and obscurely grooved opposite the stamens, but without any distinct 

 disk.^ Capsule oblong, 1^ to 2 lines long, almost included in the glabrous, 

 ^longated, adnate base of the calyx-tube, shortly free in the upper paii. 

 Cocci thinly crustaceous.— C, pyramidalis, E. Br., Brongn. in Ann. Sc. Nat, 

 X. 373. 



