Verlicordia.] XLVIII. MYRTACEF, 33 
Meissner appears to have overlooked the appendages to the calyx-tube, which, although much 
shorter than in either of the following species, certainly exist in our specimens, 
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st nerve- 
under the primary lobes. Petals inserted on the staminal tube, broadly cordate, 
fringed with long cilia. Stamens united above the ca yx in a short broad 
tube; anther-cells parallel, opening longitudinally, on a thickened connective ; 
staminodia subulate, thickened at the base. Style bearded below the stigma 
with short hairs. Ovules 6 to 8. 
W. Australia. Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 46. 
36. v. D D H 
attaining 5 or 6 ft., but often flowering when under 2 ft., with slender or 
i ing, 3 to 5 lines diameter, 
pale, with a dark centre, on pedicels shorter or longer than the leaves below 
the ends of the branches. Calyx-tube about 3 lines long, 5-ribbed ; primary 
mose lobes of a shining white, 5 thin transparent accessory lobes reflexed on 
the tube and turned u e base, deeply divided into numerous cilia, 
e 
from under the primary lobes, thinner than in the allied species. Petals short 
and broad, fringed with 10 to 12 long subulate lobes or cilia, inserted on the 
Stamens united in a broad tube above the calyx ; anther-cells 
parallel, opening longitudinally, the connective not much thiekened ; stami- 
nodia subulate-pointed but very irregular. Style exserted, the stigma sur- 
Tounded by a tuft of long hairs. Ovules about 8 
con, Anstralia, Sandy plains between Hutt and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th 
37. V. &randis, Drumm. in Hook. Kew Journ. v. 119. A stout 
Blaucous shrub of 3 to 6 ft., with erect or spreading branches. Leaves 
and half-stem-clasping, 3 to 6 lines diameter, faintly 5- or 7-nerved, 
ges. Flowers axillary along the virgate branches, each forming 
wen fully out a dense] lumose crimson tuft of at least 1 in. diameter, 
X tube turbinate, 5-ribbed, about 4 lines long; primary lobes 5, spread- 
» divided int 5 accessory lobes reflexed 
and Ee : 
3 nearly as long as the tube. Petals orbicular, fringed with short teeth, 
és pa the staminal tube considerably above the calyx, Stamens united 
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