Darwinia.) XLVIII. MYRTACEJE. 13 
6, or more frequently lateral by the elongation of the central shoot. Brac- 
teoles very broad, shorter than the calyx, and very deciduous. Calyx-tube 
broadly turbinate, nearly 2 lines long, the adnate part 5-ribbed, otherwise 
smooth; lobes very minute or scarcely conspicuous. Petals white, ovate, 
nearly as long as the calyx-tube, slightly serrulate. Staminodia slender. 
Style shortly exceeding the petals, bearded under the broadly-capitate 
stigma. 
W. Australia. Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 38 ; 
S. Hutt River, Oldfield. Nearly allied to D. vestita, but the few flowers, broad calyx, a and 
large petals give it a very different aspec 
. D. diosmoides, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 180. An erect 
anes shrub of 2 or 3 feet, with the aspect of a heath or a Diosma. Leaves 
scattered, crowded, linear, semiterete or triquetrous, thick or slender, obtuse, 
1 to 2 or rarely 3 Jines long. owers numerous, in compact terminal glo- 
to 
lobes very small and scale-like. Petals white, about $ line long. 
nodia slender, about as long as the filaments. Style exserted. Se aegis 
diosmoides, DC. Prod. iii. 209, and’ Mem. Myrt. t. 2 (incorrect as to the 
stamens) ; "Schau. Myrt. Xeroc. 28. t.2 A (the staminodia too broad), and in 
PL Preiss. i. 96; G. Drummondii, Turez. in Bull. Mose. 1847, i. 155 (a 
short-leaved form). 
W. Australia. Common in rocky places and on the seacoast at King George's Sound 
"voted ed R. Brown and others, Drummond, Ath Coll. n. 92, 5th Coll. suppl. 
Genetyllis 5 affinis, Turcz. in Bull. Mose. 1847. i. 155 is said to differ in the calyx quite 
smooth, er? in Drumm ond's i specimens, 4th Coll. n. 21, quoted by him, it has certainly the 
parallel rings of the species 
cicularis, Rudye in Trans. Linn. Soc. xi. 299 
1. D. fas . 22. 
` erect much-branched heath-like shrub. Leaves scattered, dE crowded, 
linear, slender, semiterete or obtusely triquetrous, subulate-pointed, mostly 4 
to 5 lin gore shortly petiolate, the floral ones not different or De 
ge D D D 
longer. ogether in terminal heads within the last 
leaves. Bracteoles narrow and short. Calyx slender, not 3 lines long, the 
adnate part prominently 5-tibbed, otherwise smooth; lobes very smali an 
scale-like. Petals broad, about 4 line long. Staminodia short and filiform. - 
Style long and slender.—Schau . Myrt. Xeroc. 36. t. 2 D. 
S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. B. and other 
f Cryptostemon ericæus , F. Muell., Published by Miquel in Nederl. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 115, 
rom F, — description taken from a pa Late of a N. S. Wales plant of which 
1s p 
: , is most probably Darw cularis, with e the deserip- 
bis agrees i in every respect except that the staminodia We a menti These, however, 
may well have been overlooked. Francisia, Endl. Ge EN proves from the inves- 
ise epos EE have been established on a sing f n Baue -— ars À 926 vs 
5 ibly of the press, being deseri 
as 20 sm ar fa ig aris, the stamens by some error, possi y p g 
