20 XLVIII. MYRTACER. [Verticordia. 
slender, bearded towards the end. Ovules 2 or 4, one of them speedily 
enlargin ; ; 
S. Australia. Boston Point, Port Lincoln, Wilhelmi. 
B. Calyx-tube hemispherical, smooth or ribbed, pubescent or with a tuft 
of spreading hairs round the base; primary lobes 5, spreading, deeply di- 
vided into 5, 7, or rarely 9 linear or ain pectinate-ciliate digitate lobes. 
Petals entire denticulate or ciliate. Connective small. 
This group has the calyx-tube of D. with the segments of C. 
2. V. densiflora, Lindi. Swan Riv. App. 6. Erect and bushy, ESCH 
2 or 3 ft. Leaves linear, — or triquetrous, slender, $ to 4 in. long, ~ 
erowded on the short side-branches as to form axillary ullo. as in F. 
Fontanesii, but usually more remote on pont main stems, the floral ones in the 
corymb often lanceolate. Flowers white or pink, on pedicels rarely exceeding ` 
eerie 04 or 5 lines in diameter, each one contracted at the base into a | 
broad ciliate claw, and divided to below the middle into 3 or 5 pectinate- 
~~ rias lobes. Petals short, nearly orbicular, euch d with numerous 
ei mens very shortly united; anthers globular, 2-porose; connective | 
small. Neues lanceolate-subulate, entire, slightly glandular. Ovules 2 | 
(or 1?). Style CE bearded towards the end.— Schau. Myrt. Xeroc. | 
50, and in Pl. Preiss 
. Australia. shee SE Drummond, A € — 174; Preiss, n. 180; Black- 
wood River, ^it, ed Salt River and south coast, | 
a, Turcz. in Bull. Mose. 1847, i te wired. from Gilbert's specimens, n.. 
330, Pec rech not seen, appears, "en the character given, to be the same as V. densiflora. ` 
3. V. stelluligera, Meissn. in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 88. Very near F. | 
densiflora, but the broader leaves and small corymbs of hee flowers give it 
a very different aspect. Branches divaricate, Slender. ` Leaves from linear- | 
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small, yellow, in numerous small but dense leafy corymbs, often pedunculate. ` 
Calyx-tube hemispherical, [ge with long hairs at the base only, contracted | 
at the top; primary lobes 5, scarcely spreading to 3 lines diameter, each con- | 
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tinate digitate lobes. Petals ovate, shorter than the calyx-lobes, fringed with | 
fine cilia. Stamens and lanceolate- subulate staminodia of E. densi iflora. Style 
exserted, bearded towards the end. le 1. 
W. Australia. Between Moore aud Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 50. 1 
utiflora, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 58. Erect and bushy, with | 
the habit of F. Fontanesii, but more slender, with smaller finer leaves, much - 
smaller flowers, and no staminodia. AVES Tinear, semiterete or triquetrous; ` 
slender, obtuse, 2 to 3 lines long, erowded on the short lateral bini 
Flowers very small on very short pedicels, in small terminal leafy co mbs, | 
or in the upper axils. Bracteoles ovate, more persistent than in the allied | 
species. Calyx-tube ovoid-globular, hirsute, scarcely above 4 line long; | 
primary lobes 5; spreading scarcely to a diameter of 2 lines, digitately | 
