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the flower-bud, but very deciduous, or rarely connate at the base and persis- 
tent, the keel often terminating in a point at or below the apex, very variable 
in length even in the same species. 
The genus is limited to Australia. It is — ara by the calyx. In Gen respects 
the first section has the Ee es ers of Darwinia, the second those of Chamelaucium. In 
the few seeds which I have seen ripe I could fad no notch in the slender en E of the em- 
ryo, SE it is therefore still pie whether that or the thick homogeneous mass is the 
radie nd. 
Scion 1, Euverticordia.— Anthers "e globular, opening in 2 almost dorsal 
Eisen connective either small and inconspicuous or more or less thickened or produced into 
concave or hooded appendage, concealing the pores. Ovules P or rarely A or l, on a small 
* Halt placenta 
Cal tee — 5:riöbed, glabrous; lobes 5, erect; with 3 to 5 See simple 
bee divisi 
Flowers Feud in racc oi the floral. leaves reduced to 
small bracts Cue. GU on ein 
B. Calyz-tube Jenipleria e or ribbed, pubescent or with a déi of aire ? 
hairs round the base; primary lobes 5, spreading, deeply divided into 5, 7, or rarely 9 
inear or subulate SÉ og Aen dide lobes. Petals entire Geesse or ciliate. 
Connective small. 
Ger oo contracted nde a dea broad claw, the tube hirsute with long hair at the base, 
ous or pubesce 
wers white or wu. "Ed rather. peter? Ee EE EN iflora. 
.. Flowers yellow. Leay Kat der and thick o 4 5 8: V. stelluligera. 
Calyx-lobes digitate from 1 the ee 
No staminodia. Flowers de SC Dee Sa M ER e 
Staminodia linear. 
Divisions of the calyx-lobes flat and scarious, pectinate-pin- 
uatifid; tube pubescent all over si 
Flowers hite or pink. Style scarcely. exserted . 5. V. Fontanesii. 
Flowers yellow des (te lon 6. V. helichrysantha. 
- Divisions of the ca pile ege the ‘pectinate cilia long. 
Calyx-tube hirsute on with a in: of hairs at the base, 
herwise gi bro very EH in ried 
1. V. Brownii. 
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vid ee of the JenelyAufted branche es. Leave 
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etals mca fringed. Staminodia fringed. Co = id E 
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Petals ri rered, Bracteoles persistent . 10. F. Zoe? 
rigid, ‘dentieulate. Staminodia entire. Corymbs " broad, 
many-flow Bracteoles very decidu 
Leaves Gott iliate. Sta broad. Couneetive-a 
orient ciliate. minodia broa oun ppeu- | t P ous. 
Leaves entire, - Staininodia subalate, pua 
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Petals d itely divided into 5, E or 9 rigid. sabulate lobes. 
Sait iain or lanceolate. Bracteoles persis 
