444 XXXVI, RHAMNEiE. \Cryptandra, 



N. S. "Wales. New England, (7. Stuart. 



19. C. arbutiflora, Fenzl^ in Ilueg, Emtm. 26. Brandies virgate, 

 slightly pubescent, with numerous short branchlets occasionally spinous. Leaves 

 narrow-linear, obtuse or with a minute recurved pointy 1 to 3 lines long, 

 with the margins much revolute so as to be almost terete. Flowers white, 

 fragrant, sessile, or very shortly pedicellate on the smaller branches, not 

 crowded, quite glabrous, the broad obtuse imbricate brown bracts forming a 

 minute cup at their base. Calyx about 3 lines long, broadly tubular, with very 

 short lobes. Disk undulate, villous, covering the small glabrous top of the 

 ovary, whicK is almost entirely free from the calyx, but enclosed in the tube. 

 Capsule filling the calyx-tube, glabrous, the disk remaining round its base. 

 Cocci indehisccnt or 2-valved. — JVlcliiirea arhutijlora^ Nees, in PL Preiss. ii. 

 290; a mavh, Lindl. Bot, Beg. 1844, t. 56. 



IV, Australia. Swan Eiver, Druminond, \si ColL ; sandy woods near Guildford, 

 Preiss, n. 465 and 472 ; King George's Sound, IIuegeL 



Var. tuhulosa. More slender aud spiuouSj resembling C, sj/mescens in aspect ; brandies 

 almost or quite glabrous 3 calyx-tube very slender. — C. tuhnlosa, Fcuzl, in Hucg. Eimm. 26 ; 

 Wicharea tubidosa, Necs, in Pi. Preiss. ii. 291. — Swan River, Haeyel, DrunufLond ; shady 

 rocks on the X. side of Mount Clarence^ Preiss^ n, 473 ; Vassc river aud Murchisou river, 

 OlJJield, 



20. C. xniliariSj Iteissek, in PL Preiss, ii, 2S8. Branches lonp^ nnd 

 virgute, with numerous short spinous branchlets, as in C splneacens. Leaves 

 nearly as in that species, narrow-linear, 2 to 3 lines long*, the margins re- 

 curved or revolute, ghibrous or pubescent. Flowers very small, not quite 

 sessile, forming little loose leafy racemes or clusters on the side-branches. 

 Calyx campanulate, less than 1 line long in onr specimens, but not fully out, 

 the very obtuse, imbricate, brown bracts nearly half as long as the calyx ; lobes 

 of the calyx as long as the tube. Disk glabi'ous, undulate, close round the 

 pubescent ovary. Fruit not seen, — C, lasioi)hjlla and C glahrata^ Steud, \\\ 

 PI. Preiss. i. 188. 



Mr. Australia. Sandy woods near Perth, Freiss, 71. 2420. 



C. temdramea, Steud. in PI. Preiss. i. 189, from W. Australia, Preiss, n. 2 119, veiy im- 

 perfectly described froui a specimen not yet in flower, which I have not seen, may be thi3 

 species, but it is utterly unrecognizable, 



21. C. nudiflora, F. MuelL Fragm, iii. 64. Branches decumbent or 

 divaricate, the short branchlets often rigid but scarcely spinesccnt in ^our speci- 

 mens. Leaves lincar-cuneate or spathnlatCj obtuse or truncate, 2 to (> lines 

 long, flat or condnplicate. Flowers pedicellate, clustered with small leaves 

 along the branches, but not crowded, the acuminate brown bi'acts very small 

 at the base of the pedicels. Calyx quite glabrous, about 2 lines long, broadly 

 tubidar, the lobes short. Di^k annular, rather thick, undulate, glabrous as 

 Avell as the ovary, but quite distinct from it. Ovary quite free, sessile on 

 the centre of the disk. Fruit not seen. 



•W. Australia. Port Gregory and Murchison river, Oldjield, In floral characters 

 this species is almost a Discaria, but the habit is quite that of Cryptandra, 



