Verticordia.] XLVIII. MYRTACES. 2] 
divided from near the base into 3 or 5 white scarious lobes bordered by a few 
long scarious cilia. Petals ovate, entire, as long as the calyx-lobes. Staminal 
disk truncate, with 10 short equidistant stamens, and no staminodia ; anthers 
globular, 2-porose, the connective slightly prominent. Ovules 2 (or 1?). 
Style filiform, slightly bearded towards the end. 
W. Australia. Towards the Great Bight, Maxwell. 
all over, the adnate part and ovary exceedingly short ; primary lobes 5, spread- 
ing to a diameter of 3 to 4 lines in the common form, divided nearly to the 
base into about 5 or 7 digitate, linear, but flat and scarious lobes, pectinate- 
ciliate or pinnatifid, or sometimes toothed only towards the end. Petals ob- 
long or ovate, as long as the calyx-lobes, slightly pubescent, entire or slightly 
ciliate towards the base. Stamens shortly united; anthers globular, 2- 
porose, the connective inconspicuous; staminodia oblong-linear, obtuse, 
glandular. Ovules 2 or 4. Style filiform, scarcely exserted, more or less 
' bearded towards the end.— Schau. Myrt. Xeroe. 47, and in PI. Preiss. i. 98; 
“hamelaucium plumosum, Desf. in Mem. Mus. Par. v. 42. t. 4; Verticordia 
Sieberi, Diesing in Schau. Myrt. Xeroc. 49. 
— W. Australia. - King George’s Sound and adjoining districts, Æ. Cunningham and 
others; Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 30, Preiss, n. 172, 174. EN 
Var. grandiflora. Calyx-tube with shorter hairs ; lobes spreading to about } in. diameter 
2 «2. ^ 
Var. (?) parviflora. Flowers small, the petals ovate-lanceolate——Lucky Bay, R. Brown. 
. 5. V. helic santha, F. Muell. Herb. An erect shrub, with the 
habit, foliage and inflorescence of the large-flowered variety of V. Fontanesi, 
but the flowers appear to be yellow and the style much longer. Leaves linear, 
semiterete or triquetrous, very obtuse, 2'to 4 lines long, crowded on the smaller ` 
shoots. Flowers on pedicels as long as the leaves, in small, terminal, leafy 
corymbs, or in the upper axils. Calyx-tube hemispherical, scarcely ribbed, 
Softly hirsute all over ; primary lobes 5, spreading to nearly 4 in. diameter, 
ch one digitately divided into 5 or 7 linear, flat, scarious, pectinate-ciliate 
bes. Petals ovate-oblong, entire, pubescent, as long as the calyx. Stamens 
and staminodia of V, Fontanesii. Style subulate, 3 in. long, shortly bearded 
ules 
W^. Australia. Phillips Range and Cape Riche, Marwell. | 
uL v. Brownii, DC. Prod. ii. 209. Erect, bushy, and much branched. 
i faves obovate or oblong, very obtuse, keeled or triquetrous, mostly 1 to 15 
E e long, almost imbricate and decussate on the short barren branches. 
wéit "` small, on pedicels of 1 to 2 lines, and very numerous, in dense, 
