* 



CryptandraJ] xxxvi. HHAMNEiE. 443 



nearly 3 lines long, hoaiy-tomentose outside, the tube nearly covered by the 

 brown imbricate bracts, the lobes short, narrow, and spreading. Ovary 

 scarcely prominent at the bottom of the tube, flat at the top, but without 

 f any distinct disk. 



N- S. "Wales. Rocky hills on the meridian of Bathurst, on the parallel of 30^ 50' ; 

 Mount Yongo on the route to Hunter's River, and Goulburn river, A. Cunning ham, 



16. C. pungens^ Sleud, in PI. Preiss, i. 187. Eesembling in liabit 

 C, spinesceiiSj the numerous short branches terminating in slender spines. 

 Leaves mostly fasciculate, 2 to 3 lines long, obtuse or with a slightly recuiTed 

 pmnt. Flow^ers small and numerous, on pedicels of \ to nearly 1 line loug, 

 with minute, imbricate, acuminate, browu bracts at their base, and not under 

 the calyx. Calyx about f line long, broadly campanidate, the lobes fidly as 

 long as the tube, softly pubescent outside. Free part of the ovary very broad 

 and flat, and slightly thickened on the edge into a villous disk. Pruiting 

 calyx more turbinate, above 1 line long, the pubescent capsule nearly as long 

 as the calyx-lobes.— a holodijla, Steud. in PL Preiss. i. 188. 



V/, Australia. Swan River, Lnimmond ; sandy woods and limestone hill9 near tlie 

 sea, Preiss, n. 2-422 and 2423 ; south-west coast, Baxter, 



17. C. mutila, Nees, Eeissek, in PL Preiss, ii. 289. A low heath-like 

 shrub, wnth slender virgate almost spincscent branches, hoary with minute 

 stiff hairs. Leaves linear, mostly 1|- to 2 or scarcely 3 lines long, the 

 piargins much revolute, glabrous or nearly so. Flow^ers in little sessile clusters 

 in the upper axils, forming sliort, dense, terminal or nearly terminal leafy ra- 

 cemes, each flower on a pedicel of 1 to l^i bnes, within 3 or more minute brown 

 bracts at the base of the pedicel. Calyx about f line long, glabrous outside, 

 the lobes very spreading. Free part of the ovary broad and flat, the edge 

 thickened into a minute almost 5-lobed disk. Fruit not seen. 



^- Australia. Swan River, Bmmmond, 2nd Coll., n, 723 ; Freemantic, Collie^ 

 ^idjield', limestone hills near the sea, Preiss, w. 1217 and 1229. 



Section 2. Wichurea, iV^^5 (as a genus). — Disk glabrous or villous, 



distinct from the ovary, usually annular and rather broad. Tiowers usually 

 glabrous, except in C. longidaminea^ where they are slightly tomcutose. The 

 f^"»aractcrs of this section are veiy nearly those of Bhcaria, especially in the 

 flower. It is however at once known by the habit, alternate leaves, and 

 small fruits. 



64. A niuch-branchcd 



18. C. longistaminea 



unarmed 



■ ■ * 



■Lfcaves ovate or oblong, obtuse, 1 to 2 lines long, the margins recurved or 

 yevoliite, glabrous above, minutely silky -tomentose underneath or almost gla- 

 brous. Flowers numerous, crowded on the smaller branches, but not quite 

 sessile. Brown bracts imbricate round the base of the calyx-tube. Calyx 

 about 2 lines long, minutely silky outside, divided below the middle into 

 spreading lobes. Petals on slender claws, at first enclosing the stanK^ns, 

 but reflexed after the calyx opens, leaving the stamens erect and apparently 



«xserted. Disk anm 



f»*om the ovary. O 



shortly S-lobed. Fruit not scon. 



ndar, glabrous or very minutely tomentose, quite distinct 

 vary sessile or slightly immersed in the disk. Style very 



