78 Alfrrd J. Etvart : 



nearly 1 to 3 cm. length. The lea\es are terete, mostly half a cm. 

 long, slightly narrowed at the base, the apex curved to a small, 

 usually straight, white point, and .spar.sely covered with glandular 

 spots. 



The flowers are practically sessile in terminal clusters of 

 usually three or more. Calyx tube wrinkled but not prominently 

 ridged (when dry), dark red, glandular, the five broad obtuse 

 ciliate lobes with a light red border, and with pellucid spots. 

 Corolla twice the length of the calyx, the lobes broad obtuse, 

 pale brownish-yellow, and minutely fringed. .Stamens ten, the 

 anthers adherent to an enlarged glandular connective, alternating 

 with ten staminodes, the whole uniting to form a single distinct 

 tube within the corolla. Ovary of one loculus, with several 

 ovules arising from an erect wavy basal placenta. Style distended 

 below the middle, stignaa globular with a basal fringe of bail's. 



The plant is allied to C. ciliatum, but its pointed leaves, 

 flowers in terminal clusters, larger and broader unribbed calyces, 

 petals distinctly fringed, at once distinguish it. The latter 

 features show a slight approach to Verticordia, from which genus, 

 however, it differs widely. 



CoNOSPERMUM Croniniae, Diels. Fragni. Phytog. Austr. Occid., 

 p. 143)=C. amoenum, Meisn. 



This "species" is merely a depauperated form of C. amoenum, 

 Meisn. With reduced inflorescences, somewhat smaller flowers and 

 bracts, perianth with the external hairs well developed, so that 

 the blue colour is partly hidden and the leaves usually, though not 

 always, horizontally spreading. None of these features is constant, 

 and a specimen seen by Bentham and referred to C amoenum 

 diverges still more widely in the .same direction. In the Flora 

 Australiensis, Bentham apparently described an extreme typo in 

 the direction of luxuriance, and hence for instance exaggei-ates 

 the size of the bracts. All grades of transition exist between the 

 luxuriant and depauperate forms, and Diels' figure of the stamens 

 m the opened corolla is not quite correct, these and the peculiar 

 style being precisely similiar in both the luxuriant and 

 depauperate forms. Diels collected no new material, and 

 apparently saw only two of the extreme types at the Melbourne 



