Ferticordia.] XLVIII. MYRTACE. 25 
V. acerosa, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 6. Erect, attaining 1 to 3 
ing from 
linear-triquetrous, slender, mucronate and nearly $ in. long, to ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, concave and 2 to 3 lines long, those crowded on short lateral 
meter, each deeply divided into 5 or 7 digitate, subulate, pectinate-ciliate or 
plumose lobes. Petals divided almost to the ase, into 5, 7 or 9 subulate, 
Schau. Myrt. Xeroc. 68, and in Pl. Preiss. i. 101. 
"s Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st Coll. n. 164; Darling Range, Preiss, 
n. . 
5 
spreading or partially reflexed, divided into numerous subulate or hair-like 
lobes or long cilia, either all simple or some of them slightly branched or 
ciliate near the base. Connective small. €: 
-This group has the calyx-tube of B, with the lobes of some species of E, and the reflexed 
marginal cilia may be occasionally mistaken for the accessory lobes of the latter group, but 
m D these reflexed cilia never really proceed from distinct lobes, alternating with the 
g ones. 
` Spreadin, 
11. v. polytricha, Benth. Erect and bushy, with the habit and foliage 
nearly of V. Harveyi, but with a different calyx. Leaves linear, semiterete 
or triquetrous, slender, obtuse, mostly 3 to 4 lines long, very densely crowded 
on the short shoots, more distant below the corymb. Flowers small; on short 
pedicels, in broad, compact, terminal, leafy corymbs, often pedunculate. 
alyx-tube hemispherical, with long dense hairs at the base, glabrous and 
wneeolate, acute, longer than the stamens. Style shortly exserted, slender, 
` Meurved and bearded at the end. Ovule 1 (or 2?). 
W. Australia, Murchison river, Oldfield, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 49. 
Pe dc, demissa, F. Muell. l 
ous short ascending branches. -Leaves linear, semiterete or triquetrous, ob- 
"DE, rarely above 2 lines long, crowded on the short branches. Flowers 
v. 
