442 XXXVI. KHAMNE.E. [Crf/ptandm. 



mostly solitary at the ends of the branches. Brown bracts broad, imbricate, 

 obtuse or acute, the inner ones often nearly as long as the calyx-tube. 

 Calyx broadly campanulatCj tomentose outside, rather more than 2 lines long, 

 with ovatc-lauceolate lobes, ratlier shorter than the tube. Disk undulate, 

 villous, scarcely distinct from the sununit of the ovary. 



Tasmania. On the summits of the Western Mountains^ about 3800 ft. elevation, Giinnj 

 Arclier. 



12. C. leucopogon, Meisn,^ Jteissek, in PL Preiss. ii. 287. Very 

 nearly allied to C, propi7iq2iay and may prove to be a variety only, the flowers 

 and bracts being similar in shape and relative proportions, but the slender 

 branches and small leaves are more like those of C. alpina^ except that the 

 stems are apparently erect, not prostrate. The flowers are also rather smaller 

 than In C, propinqua^ and the calyx-lobes have longer silky hairs. 



^V. Australia. Sandy plains of the Gordon river, Freus, 72.752. {Uerh. Soiid) 



13. C. propinqua, -^. Citmi,^ Fenzly in Hneg. Emim. 23. A rigid, 

 divaiicate, heath-like shrub^ nearly glabrous. Leaves crowded or clustered 

 on the smaller branches, linear- terete, mostly 2 to 3 lines long, and usually 

 acute. Flowers 3 to 8 together at the ends of the branches, and larger than 

 in most species. Calyx varying from 2^ to 3| lines long, very silky-hairy 

 outside, the tube enclosed within the broad, brown, ciliate, imbricate bracts, 

 the lobes narrow-lanceolate, fully as long as the tube. Disk round the 

 ovary continuous with it, but prominent and often nearly glabrous. 



N. S. Wales. In the interior, J. Cunningham, Mifchell ; between Batlinrst Plains 

 and Wellington Valley, Frascr ; N."\V. Lrancli of Iluuter's Kivcr, A, Cunningham ; Para- 

 matta, Woolls ; New England, near Tenterfield, C. Btuart, 



\ViX,grandiflora. Flowers exceeding 3 lines in Icngth.^C. magnijiora, Y, ^luell. Fragm. 

 iii, 65. — Sandy desert between the Darling and i\run-ay. Herb. F. Mueller, This variety 

 is also amongst Cunningham's plants, who had given it the name of C. speciosa, and desig- 

 nated the smaller variety by that oi propiuqiia, as being near the larger one. Unfortunately 

 this latter name was the only one in the Vienna herbarium, and was thus, although inapiu'o- 

 priate, adopted by Fenzl for the species, and has given rise to the opinion that some variety 

 of the common C amara was intended by it. 



14. C. parvifolia, Turcz, in Bnll, Mosc, 1858, i. 459. Branches very 

 rigid, divaricate, the young ones hoary with a mimite stellate down, and ap- 

 pearing at first sight deprived of all leaves except distant clusters of niinatc 

 stipules, amongst which however will generally be found 3 or 3 minute oh- 

 ovate to linear leaves, thick, very obtuse or with a minute reciu'vcd point, seklom 

 1 line long, the margins revolute. Plowers solitary or 2 to 6 together, closely 

 sessile at the summits of the branches. Calyx about 3 lines long, the tube 

 closely covered with large, ])rown, obtuse, imbricate bracts, the lanceolate 

 lobes silky outside and spreading. Summit of the ovary broad and depressed, 

 thickened round the margin into a pubescent disk. 



^V. Australia^ Brummond, Mh Coll. n, 136, 



15. C. buxifolia, Fenzl, in Ilueg, Enum. 23. Stems erect from a woody 

 rliizomc, but little branched, hoary with a minute stellate tomcntum. Leaves 

 ovate, obtuse or pointed, mostly about ^ in. long, glabrous above, white 

 underneath, giving the plant a very different aspect from the rest of the 

 genus. Flowers sessile, in terminal leafy heads. Calvx tubular-campanidatc. 



