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mew appendages on the tube under the segments. Ge usually ‘forming oblong 
mes or spikes below the ends of the branches. Leaves small. 
ES — or lanceolate, serrulate. Bn appendages pate 
sometimes scar d couspicu - 99. F. pennigera. 
Pi shora or oblong, not 2 lines long. po appendages ovate, 
usually ong as t e 
Leaves spreading or loosely imbricate . . . . . . . . . 80. V. Drummond. 
Leaves closely appressed and imbricate , . . . . . . 81. F. pholidophylla. 
C. Calyz-lobes 5, spreading, with subulate plumose n: 5 accessory lobes outside 
and alternating with the rimary ones, thin and transparent, reflered on the "n age oi 
or densely ihale a and turned up again from. the base of the tube, and 5 her 
flexed appendages on the tube under the spreading lobes. Flowers forming a ae or 
spikes below the ends of an ——À or rarely short terminal racemes. Leaves obovate 
or orbicular, usually glau 
Leaves mostly about 1 ins geg closely imbric 
Reflexe accessory ahini rera Anai fringed with long 
with long c . 92. V, spicata. 
Reflexed acces at orbicular, shortly fringed. ` Petals 
entire or roca denticulat . 33. V. lepidophylla. 
Leaves obovate, mos tly A X to 3 lines long. Herbaceous calyx- 
appendages ges very short and broad. Flowers white or pa, in short 
mes . 94. V. ovalifolia. 
Leaves obovate or gie? D to d lines long. - Herbac us calyx 
appendages half as lon the tube. Flowers yellow, : in long 
racemes below the =m of | the branches 85. V. chrysostachya. 
Leaves orbicular, 3 to 4 lines lo ong. ‘Flowers large, ‘red or blue. 
Plumose divisions of the — calyx-lobes white and scarious. 
Petals fringed with long . 36. V. oculata. 
Plumose licor of the spr cem calyx-lobes hair-like a ce? ‘purple 
‘red. Petals bordered by short te 31. V. grandis. 
Section 1. EuvERTICORDIA. Anthers nearly globular, opening in two 
almost erch pores; connective either small and inconspicuous, or more or 
less thickened, or produced into a concave or hooded appendage concealing 
the pores. Ovules 2 or rarely 4 or 1, on a small or stalk-like placenta. 
This section, with the anthers and ovary of Darwinia and Homoranthus, is only distin- 
guished from them by the calyx 
A. oe narrow, 5-ribbed, glabrous; primary lobes 5, erect, each 
divided into 3 to 5 1o ong, simple, hair-like lobes. 
uc single species differs from all others of the genus in rarai and the shape of 
calyx, and in its lobes forms an approach to those of Homoranthus 
l. V. Wilhe F. d in Trans. Vict. Inst. 122. nee ex ep 
bushy. Leaves Bes semiterete or triquetrous, slender, obtuse or 
» 2 to 3 lines long, crowded on the smaller shoots. Flowers oats in 
se terminal corymbs on very short pedicels, the floral leaves in the 
eorymb all reduced to small bracts. Bracteoles very thin and deciduous. 
ribs, lobes 5, erect, thin, short, and broad, terminating in 3 or 5 long hair-like 
divisions, the middle ones exceeding the petals. _ Petals ovate-oblong, entire, 
about ] Ze ong. ens "y short with small globular uad the con- 
