28 XLVIII. MYRTACEA. [Perticordia, — 
to form a fringe to the base of the tube; primary lobes spreading to about 
1 in. diameter, deeply divided into 5 to 9 digitate linear lobes fringed with 
long cilia. Petals orbicular, fringed with cilia, Seiren on the atamibal tube 
near its base. Stamens united into a broad short tube above the calyx ; fila- 
ments longer than the petals ; anthers small, ge 2-porose ; staminodia 
fringed with long cilia. Style glabrous with a capitate stigma. Ovules 2. 
indl. Swan Riv. App. t 2A; Schau. Mert. Xeroc. 65, and in Pl. Preiss. 
i, 100 
Australia. Swan River, Zuegel ; Drummond, lst Colt. ; Preiss, n. 167 and 168, 
sis others. 
` F. compta, Endl. in Anu. Wien. Mw. ii. 194, a S VF. Roei, Endl. 1. c., appear to be only 
a small-leaved var iety of P. insignis ; the specimens are in a bad state, but the ee 
are certainly fringed in both. Preiss’s sro. re og d by Schauer to V. compta, appea 
to me to be a very common form of V. insigni 
V. habrantha, Schau. in Pi. Preiss. i. CR A sbrub of 2 or 3 ft., 
with slender often virgate branches. Lower leaves and those of the short 
side branches often laterally compressed, ieteoblong, dilated on the upper 
edge or triquetrous, and attaining 3 to 4 the upper ones in the corymb 
are prier nearly all obovate or Pane concave with a prominent keel 
and not 2 lines long. Flowers rather small, on pedicels of } to 2 in., in 
irregular Kee leafy corymbs. Bracteoles deciduo Calyx-tube turbi- 
nate, 10-ri ; pubescent at the base; primary lobes 5, spreading to a 
diameter of gen? 4 lines, deeply divided into subulate simple or forked lobes 
fringed below the middle with long cilia; and 5 accessory outer lobes re- 
tracted at the base. Stamens shortly united above the calyx; anthers 
globular, 2-porose ; connective small; staminodia rather broad, fringed with 
a few long cilia. Style e exceedingly short, glabrous, with a capitate stigma. 
Ovules 2.—V. umbellat. fa, Turcz. in Bull. Mose. 1847, i. 159; 7. brachy- 
stylis, F. Muell. Fragm. i 
WV. A alia, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 25; 5th Coll. n. 108 and 109 (the latter 
par large f ovem): Gordon river, Preiss, n. 169; ; Kalgan, Gordon, and NEL ri "e e 
field ; Gardin ver and Mount Manypeak, A, axwell. 'Turezaninow must her hav 
taken the ant theres for a eueullate connective, and the small persis me base of i 
bracteoles for the eoles themselves, or s have mixed up his description of this species 
with that of V. ege 
. V. monadelpha, Turce. in Bull. Mose. 1847, 1.158. Erect and 
dë branched. Leaves Gg triquetrous or laterally compressed, mostly 
finer nate rather thick, often above $ in. long. Flowers rather large, ie 
or white, in broad or loose tonii: leafy corymbs, each flower having t 
appearance of a dense globular tuft of hairs of at least 3 in. diameter, em 3 
tube arar : lines wig, broadly turbinate, 10-ribbed and hairy at the base, 
the free p — broad and glabrous; primary lobes 5, spreading, and 5 
ccesso ‘ou i nes reflexed on the calyx-tube and turned up ces its base, ` 
