174 ; XLVI1I. MYRTACEX. [ Calothamnus. 
filaments crowded at the end, the anthers villous in the bud, the 2. lower 
saai narrower, undivided, acute aud without anthers. Ovules rather nume- 
us mm each cell. ruiting-calyxes more or less immersed, 3 to 4 
dineir, with 2 thick hard inflexed lobes, the 2 others worn away, the dila- 
tations of the rhachis enclosing the fruits corky at the base, thin round the 
calyx and densely clothed with long hai 
WV. Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. p 71; 8rd Coll. n. 58. 
2. C. longissimus, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 112. A low shrub, the thick 
more or less corky branches softly but shortly pubescent. Leaves terete, slender ` 
but rigid, acute, 6 in. to above 1 ft. long, Ay but scabrous. 
large, 4-merous, few in globular or ovoid m or less unilateral spikes. 
Calyx-tube villous, immersed in the swollen EE oe rhachis ; lobes 
l to lj lines long. Petals fully 3 lines long. aminal bundles unequal, 
I 
the 2 upper claws often nearly 1 in. long, broad and petal-like, with 18 to ` 
30 short filaments, not so crowded at the end as in C. pat sole the 2 
lower claws narrow, undivided, acute, without anthers. Fru ing-calyx en- 
tirely immersed or nearly so, 2 to 3 lines long, with 2 thick couniend lobes, 
the 2 others Weg S 
W.A alia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 74; 8rd Coll. n. 54. Sandy plains near 
pee nn 
pharantherus, F. Muell. E iii. 112. Very closely 
C. ble ery 
allied to C. sanguineus, differing chiefly in the short leaves, not terete, but 
more or less flattened ; they are linear, rather thick, 2 in. or rarely iim. long. 
QNSE river, Oldfield. 
GC sanguineus, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 25. 164. A tall shrub, 
either hirsute with long Sender D hairs eg on the young shoots, oF 
glabrous from the first. Leav ulat A Tr SE bes: sometimes 
all from $ to 1 in., sometimes k ^x i in. ‘lon Flowers 4-merous, rather 
rhachis. Calyx-tube villous, broad, about 14 lines long ; lobes ovate, as long 
as the tube, with scarious margins, Petals ovate, 2 to 3 lines long, the 2 
than the 2 others.—DC. Prod. i ii. 211; Schau. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xxi — 
24, and in Pl. Preiss. i. 151; €. pira Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 9. 
Lë Austr = Géographe Bay, patiare ; King George's SG Vasse and 
Swan rivers, Baxter ; Collie ; Drummond, lst Coll. and n. 127, 128; Preiss, n. 214, 
zis, 219, 220, 921 ; and others.—The anthers in this and some of the allied species are 
re or less ciliat ate, and the division between the cells is often so narrow as to make the 
pare appear leo elled, 
