356 LVI. UMBELLIFERJE. [Siebera. 
Petals sometimes slightly imbricate. Fruits very flat, about 3 lines broad and 
2 lines long, carpels not turgid, with the dorsal edge acute, the intermediate 
curved ribs slightly raised. — Pla tycarpidium validum, F. Muell. in Hook. Kew 
Journ. ix. 310; Platysace valida, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 232. 
US temere Burdekin river, F. Mueller; Bowen river, Bowman; Rockingham Bay, 
chy. 
11. S. ericoides, Benth. A small, much-branched, divaricate or diffuse 
Si shrub, glabrous or more frequently glandular-pubescent towards the ends of 
the branches. Leaves all entire, linear or ECH së more spr 
than in S. linearifolia, rarely exceeding 4 in. aud m 
compound, but small and compact, very shortly UA E. with few rays. 
rien bracts sees linear. Fruit nearly as in 8 an oe fun lesse 
en fur 
rugose or q 
at the intermediate Ge besides the commissural furrow.—TZrachymen ene eri- 
gd coides, Sieb. in DC. Prod. iv. 7 38; T. tenuis and T. pacis DC. L e. 
Queensland. perve: Island, M*Gilliv. 
ales. rt Jackson to the Bluc ountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 121, and 
others ; northward to eh and Clarence rivers, Bechler, and southward to Illawarra, 
A. Cunningham. 
an 
S 
e? 
g 
3H 
x 
a 
7 ctoria. Avon jka in Gipps’ Land, F. Mue ue 
thymifolia, A. Cunn, Leaves small (not SS 2 lines long), oblong-linear ins 
Së PA with riia margins.—Barren spots, forest land, Moreton Bay, 4. 
ningha 
The s species is often yee to be distinguished from S. — 
12. S. li 
decumbent, seeing or erec ct. Leaves all entire, narrow-linear or sub T 
acute, m ostly 4 i to l in. long. Umbels compound, on slender pedan 
usually exceeding the last leaves, with 3 or 4 or rarely more ge d 
a 
rugose, the ribs scarcely conspicuous ; carpels turgid with a ‘broad pei 
back, leaving only a narrow groove at the commissure — Azorella era , 
C v. 57. t. 485 ; Trachymene PM Spreng.; DC d 
Fischera linearis, Sm. in Rees Cycl. Su 
N. S. Wal Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, $ 126, wi = 
— er? Richmond, Wilhelmi; New England, C. Stuart Jeaved varie" 3 
es passes almost into s. gedet on the one hand, and the narrow-leave 3 
ties ei s Billardieri on the other : 
E ieri, Benth. A shrub, either low and eier ; 
and dee 2 or 8 tt , glabrous or with minutely pubs narrow : 
Leaves orbicular, obovate, ovate, elliptical, cuneate, or broadly or. ate oF C 
eolate, acute or obtuse, narrowed a and almost broad q 
closely sessile and rounded at the base, mostly under z 1n long when pound, 
and obtuse, often abo in. when n d acut groct HÀ 
or peduneulate, but the uncles rarely long ; rays e ` 
but sometimes few ieee linear, di s rarely as long as te 
rays. Fruit about 1 line long and broad, more or em tubercular OT 
the ri searcely conspicuous, or both the dorsal and intermediate ones Pr 
