Verticordia. | XLVIII. MYRTACEJF. 23 
nulate, mostly 2 to 3 lines long, clustered on the smaller branches. Flowers 
connate at the base. Calyx-tube almost hemispherical, 10-ribbed, glabrous, 
not above 1 line diameter; primary lobes 5, spreading to about 4 lines dia- 
nodia petal-like, fringed. tyle very short, glabrous. 
W. Australia, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 24. 
11, V. serrata, Schau. Myrt. Xeroc. 70. Stout, erect, and rigid. Leaves 
# in. long, to oblong or 
auriculate base, deeply divided into digitate, plumose-ciliate, subulate lobes. . 
Petals ovate, rather thick, concave, more or less toothed at the end. Stamens 
shortly united ; *anthers globular, 2-porose, the connective produced into an 
- ovate or lanceolate, obtuse, concave appendage, exceeding the cells; stamino- 
dia petal-like, oblong, entire, connivent over the stamens. Style subulate, 
glabrous. vules 2.—Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. t. 13; Chrysorrhoe serrata, 
Lindl. in Swan Riv. App. 6. 
W. Australia, Drummond. His specimens comprise four forms, which might almost 
be taken for distinct species :—a. es short and broad. Petals broad, rather deeply 
toothed, prpendege of the connective broad, very obtuse. Let Coll. n. 145, 3rd Coll. n. 
d Coll. n. 
Flowers of a. Bth Coll. n. 107.—d. Leaves of a. Flowers of 6. (4th Coll. ?) n. 47. 
3 18. v. nit a 
Small, erect, and corymbosely branched. Leaves linear, semiterete, rather 
slender, acute or mucronulate, mostly 3 to 2 in., but the lower ones sometimes 
- lo : j 
tive, which is usually obtusely 2-lobed at the top ; staminodia short, subulate. 
Style filiform, glabrous. Ovules 3.—Bot. Mag. t. 5286; Chzysorrhoe nitens, 
Lindl. in Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 357, and Swan Riv. App. t- 1. 
"een Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll, 8rd Coll. n. 166 ; Oldfield ; 
8, 2. 173. R 
. 18. V. grandiflora, Ludi. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 195. Erect, rigid, 
and rather stout, 1 to 2 ft. high or rather more. Leaves from linear, semi- 
