30 ) XLVIII. MYRTACEJE. [ Verticordia, 
appendage; staminodia linear, entire. Style shortly exserted, with a ring of 
hairs round the capitate stigma. Ovules 8 or 10. 
N. Australia. York Sound, 4. Cunningham ; Victoria river, Bynoe, islands of the 
Gulf of Carpentaria, A. Brown; Macadam range, F. Mueller ; Port Essington, Armstrong, 
28. V. picta, Endl. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 194. Branches spreading, 
rather slender. Leaves linear, semiterete or triquetrous, obtuse or mucronate, 
mostly 2 to 4 lines long. Flowers white or pink, rather large, on pedicels of 
3 or 4 lines, in loose terminal eorymbs or short leafy panicles. Calyx-tube 
5, spreading to about 5 lines diameter, deeply divided into 7, 9, or 11 digi- 
tate linear pectinate-ciliate scarious lobes. ‘Petals inserted on the staminal 
obes. Stamens united in a broad tube; filaments short; anthers oblong, 
with parallel cells opening longitudinally; staminodia lanceolate-subulate, 
entire. Style shortly bearded below the stigma. Ovules about 10, appended 
to as many marginal lobes of a somewhat peltate, excentric placenta.— Schau. 
Myrt. Xeroc. 53. 
- Australia, Roc; Swan River, Drummond, Ist Coll. n. 170; S. Hutt and 
Murchison rivers, Oldfield. 
. pentandra, Turez. in Bull. Mose. 1847, i. 157, described from Gilbertz specimens, n. ` 
329, which I have not seen, appears from the character given not to differ from F. picta. 
B. Calyx-lobes 5, spreading, without accessory reflexed segments, but — 
with 5 herbaceous reflexed appendages on the tube under the lobes. Flowers - 
usually forming oblong racemes or spikes below the ends of the branches. - 
ves small. | 
The reflexed herbaceous appendages which distinguish this group from A are rather 
variable, in V. pennigera occasionally reduced to a slight gibbosity under the lobes, some- 
times in that species extending + down the tu e, in others halfway down or nearly to the 
base, always closely appressed to the tube between: the ribs, and sometimes shortly adnate 
to it. * 
29. V. pennigera, Endl. in Hueg. Enum. 46. Stems in some speci- 
mens short and erect from a thick stock, in others slender, spreading, or 
virgate. Leaves linear and semiterete or triquetrous, or oblong and concave, 
obtuse or mucronate, 1 to 2 lines long, crowded on the small lateral shoots, 
the margins more or less ciliate, Flowers on short pedicels in the upper 
axils, forming leafy Tacemes, sometimes collected into thyrsoid panicles. 
Calyx-tube turbinate, 5-ribbed ; primary lobes 5, spreading to a diameter of 
4 or 5 lines, deeply divided into subulate plumose lobes, with a few long 
lateral cilia closely reflexed e ; Without accessory lobes, but with 
herbaceous adnate appendages reflexed on the tube under the lobes, very short 
and broa sometimes scarcely more than broad gibbosities. Petals 
mo osit 
obovate-oblong, striate, toothed or fringed at the end, connivent over the 
stamens. Stamens shortly united above the calyx; anther-cells parallel, 
F. setigera, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 7. 
A 
W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. Prejss, n. 182; Murchison, Gor- j 
don, and Kalgan rivers, Oldfield ; Dirk Hartog’s Island, Martin ; Gardner ranges and Colt 7 
