Verticordia.| XLVIII. MYRTACES. 27 
stigma broadly capitate. Ovules 2.— 7". brachypoda, Turez. in Bull. Mose. 
1847, i. 158. 
W. Australia, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 26 and 28 ; 5th Coll. n. 111. Plantagenet, 
Stirling, and Fitzgerald ranges, ell; The species is allied to V. Huegelit, but the 
leaves are shorter and thicker, the cilia of the calyx much less numerous, the stigma much 
smaller, and the staminodia different. 
numerous fine cilia. Stamens very shortly united; anthers globalar, 2- 
W. Australia. S 
SES ec lil river, Oldfield ; Kalgan river, Maxwell. 
+ Stylos, ;1 i 
e 
z group C, in which are never found the other characters given. is probable, there- 
ore, that some fragments of V. serra i 
specimens of V, Huegelii, and the V. stylosa made up of bot 
E. Calyx-tube various ; primary lobes 5, spreading, either digitate with. 
pectinate lobes, or divided into very numerous hair-like lobes or cilia, and 5 
acce 
closely reflexed on the tube, divided into numerous fine cilia, and turned up 
again from the base of the tube. Connective small. Lower leaves laterally 
Compressed or triquetrous. 
ye group has the accessory calyx-lobes, but not the herbaceous appendages to the tube 
of the group C of Catocalypta, and the anthers and ovary are quite those a 
. 33. V. insignis, Endl. in Hueg. Enum. 47.—An erect shrub of 1 to 2 
ft., branching from the base. Leaves from broadly ovate to oblong, very 
tuse or almost mucronate, 2 to 4 lines long, the lower ones and those : 
the barren branches often laterally compressed or vertical, others with ne 
