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S. Australia- Barossa range, Behr ; Mouut Lofty ranges and near Lake Torrens, -F, 

 Muelier. 



6. H. tenuifolia, Benth. Tall, glabrous, and erect, from a shortly 

 creeping liase ; brandies terete and smooth. Leaves alternate, narrow-linear, 

 the larger ones 1 to 2 in. long with a few narrow-linear lobes, the floral ones 

 gradually reduced to small bracts. Mowers on very short pedicels, mostly in 

 dusters 'of 2 or 3, forming terminal racemes leafy at the base. Calyx-lobes 

 3, broad but scarcely cordate. Petals 3, above I line long. Stamens 6. 

 Styles and ovules 3. Young fruits ovoid, above 1 line long, not ribbed, 

 crowned by the calyx-lobes, 3-celled or very rarely 2-celled. 



W, Australia, Drmmond, m Con. n, 86. With the habit of H.scoparla. this 

 species has a more slender foliage, almost approaching that of Mewnectes, with the ternary 

 Sowers of H. hexandra, and the fruit apparently of H. aculeolafa. 



7. H. scoparia, Fenzl, in llueg. Emim. 45. Tall, glabrous, and erect ; 

 branches terete and smooth. Leaves alternate, linear or Imear-lanceolate, 

 acute, the larger ones 1 to 2 in. long with a few remote very prominent teeth 

 or lobes, the upper ones entire, the floral ones gradually reduced to small 

 Wets. Flowers on very short pedicels, in clusters of 2 or 3, lormmg 

 long loose terminal racemes leafy at the base. Calyx-lobes short broad, 

 almost cordate. Petals 4, about 1 Ime long. Stamens 8. btyles and ovu es 

 1 or 2, the stigmas apparently not plnmose even in the females. Uvary alter 

 flowering prominently 8-ribbed. Truit not seen. 



' W, Australia, Hnege?^ Drummond. Uh CoIL n. ?2. I have not seen Huegel's speci- 

 Rien, hut the descrrptiou leaves no doubt as to its identity. 



8. H. aculeolata, Benth. Erect, virgate, al^out 1 ft. high m our spe- 

 cimens, the stem terete and glabrous or with slightly prpimncnt ciliolate oi 

 aculcolate angles. Leaves alternate, narrow-linear, mucronate entire or mo e 

 feciuentlY with a few distant prominent teeth w lobes, as m H. scorn but 

 also bordered with veiy short, rigid, cartilaginous pomts %,^""^"^^^ ;;*; J'^ 

 floral leaves smaller, but all much exceeding the flowers f^^^^'l^^'^l^^ 

 solitary or 2 together, in loose terminal leafy racemes, but "^^ ecu perfect 

 Fruit ovoid, almost e;rky, above 1 Hue long, quite glf ^•^"^/Jl^^^^^f J^'^^^. 

 neut ribs, crowned, by the 4 conniveut, triangular, not cordate calyx-lobes, 



^^lls 2 or verv rarelv 3 ■ u 



W. Australia, Clarke. The specimens «- not good but J^cannotm^^^^^^^ 



'ny of the aUicd spc ies. The foliage is nearly that of " -''^^''Znm^J.Z i arts. 

 «f the fruit and cMyx-lohcs that of H. tenuifolia, but with a d.ffeient number 1 



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itig hairs. Leaves 



B.M. T.I1 and erect. sprinkM with a ftw^ljcf ^P-f; 



~. ™.. .eaves alte^a.e. '--"'-"^f t:roV t eX'P" «"- eS 



^^idi a few remote, acute, very prominent teetn, or lu 1 1^ 



farrowed at the b.nse but searJely petiolate, the ^-^^^^^^'^H^l Sy 

 lanceolate, but nearly all exceeding the flowers. B^cenijs termn. , y. 

 ;f er dense. Flowers usually clustered m the axds "^^JY^^^^^ J^^,^ 



l^bes cordate, acutely acuminate. Petals 4, ''^^«;'^. V^^V°^^;3'4 Ovary 

 °,^ tlie keel. Stamens 8 or sometimes 6 only. Styles and ovules 4. UNary 



after flowering acutely 4-angled. Eipe fruit not seen 



W. Austral;^ -Rptwppn l^Toore and -Murchison rucrs, u^iu, 



