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182 XLVIII. MYRTACES, [Eremaa, 
W. Australia. Champion Bay, Walcott, Oldfield. 
3. E. pilosa, Lindl. Swan Riv. Ann, Il. An erect or spreading heath- 
like shrub of 3 or 4 ft., more or less pubescent or hirsute, the branches much 
more slender than in Z. Jünbriata. Leaves linear, flat, semiterete or Ae S 
trous, obtuse or nearly so, f to 3 or rarely 4 lines long, glabrous or hairy. |. 
Flowers much smaller than in Æ. fimbriata, solitary and sessile within the last - 
leaves, surrounded by Sep scale-like bracts, the inner ones nearly as long ' : 
as the calyx-tube, the outer ones much smaller. Calyx-tube rather narrow, 
about 14 lines long, silky-pubescent ; D sata iis much shorter than the ` 
tube, Petals about 14 lines long. Stamens very numerous, slightly be 
in 5 bundles, but with several filaments often free between them 
slightly convex; stigma almost capitate. Fruiting-calyxes globular, Mex 
s h and shining, ard à in. diameter, the capsu ule not prom minent.— 
Schau. in Pl. Preiss. i. 157 ; Æ. ericifolia, ind Le, Schau. Le: Metrosi- 
deros pauc. pe End. in Hueg. Enum. 50, according o Schau. ; 
. Aus n River, Drummond lst Coll., and n. 117; Preiss, n. 294, a95, 
296; Tone pi ech rivers, Oldfield 
ebracteata, F. Muell. | mate ii. 99. A low bushy shrub, the 
Ne and young leaves more or less hirsute. Leaves linear, obtuse or 
scarcely acute, not pungeut, 3 to 4 lines long. Flowers rather large, 2 oF 3 
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n cube ter EON x a 
tion of the shoot. Bracts scale-like but few, small, and v very deciduous, 
as to be rarely seen. Calyx-tube villous, rather narrow, beg 9 ]ines long; 
lobes broadly- triangular or shortly acuminate, scarcely m e than 4 line long. 
Petals about 2 lines diameter. Stamens E one “usted = 5 es 
um 
scarcely forming repi Dosen Ovary convex on the top. 
ealyxes ovoid or eylin drical, truncate, thick and very smooth, 6 lines '* 
and about 4 lines diameter. Capsule much shorter than the pen 
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