Dampera.'] LXiv. goodenovie^. 119 



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or even 2 in. long, the others quite entire, small and narrow or a few of the 

 larger ones 1 in. long. Flowers sessile, solitary or few together, in clusters 

 towards the ends of the branches, forming a leafy panicle. Bracts dry, 

 rigidj acute, more or less imbricate, usually exceeding the calyx. Calyx- 

 lobes obsolete. Corolla under | in. long, covered with simple or scarcely 

 plumose, silky hairs. Ovary 1-celled, with 1 erect, narrow-oblong ovule. — 

 1>C. Prod. vii. 501- De Vr. Gooden. 110 (only as to Brown's plant). 



W' Australia. Lucky Bay, 22. Broicn, and thence to Orleans Bay and Cape Paisley, 

 Maxwell. 



_31. D. glabrescens, Benth. Probably an undcrslimb, closely rcsem- 

 Wing the Eastern D. adpresm in aspect and indumentum, but apparently 

 more branched. Leaves sessile, the larger ones lanceolate, entire or minutely 

 and remotely toothed, sometimes 3-nerved, li to 2 in. long, those of the 

 hranchlets oblong, entire, about \ in. long, all obtuse, flat, and quite smooth, 

 ^osely and almost silky toraentose when young, glabrous when full grown. 

 Peduncles in the upper axils shorter than the leaves, 1- to 3-flowered. 

 iiracts small, linear. Flowers covered with a white, close, stellate tomentura, 

 mixed with a few, long, soft, almost simple hairs. Calyx-lobes quite obso- 

 lete. Ovary 1-celled, with 1 oblong, erect ovule. 



. yf- Australia, Brummond, Uh Coll. n. 194, ; South Hutt and Marchison rivers, Old- 

 Jield 1U plant figured by De Vricae, Gooden. t. 16. f. 2, as a second specimen may, per- 

 laps, belong to this species, of some forms of which it is a fair representation. 



.32. D. adpressa, A. Cunn.; DC. Prod. vii. 503. An undershrub, 

 J^'ith a thick stock, and several erect, simple or slightly-branched stems of 1 

 to 2 ft., clothed when young as well as the leaves with a close, white, almost 

 fioceose tomeutum, which disappears from the adult leaves. Leaves very 

 shortly petiolate, ovate or lanceolate, acute or rarely obtuse, entire or ob- 

 scurely toothed, coriaceous, rather thick, smooth, and quite flat, \ to 1 in. 

 wng. Peduncles axillary, rarely exceeding the leaves, 2- or 3-flowered. 

 isracts small, linear. Plowers rather small, clothed with a dense, stellate or 



• wholly tomeutum, mixed with long, almost simple hairs. Calyx-lobes 



• °'^^ong-linear, sometimes rather \on^, but apparently deciduous, and much 

 concealed by the indumentum. Ovary 1-celled, with 1 straight ovule erect 

 trom the base.— D. lanceohda, De Vr. Gooden. lOL t. 17. 



Queensland, Mitchell ; Cape river, Bowman ; Thermometer Creek, Leichhardt. 

 «• S. Wales. Ci-oker'a Range, A. CtmninglMm.. 



By some mistake, De Vriese has interchanged the names of D. lanceolata and D. ad- 

 vressa, although he had Cunningham's named specimens before him. 



83. D. diversifolia. Be Vr. in Fl Freiss. i. 403 ; Gooden. 117. A 

 prostrate perennial or undershrub, extending sometimes to a considerable 

 oreadth, Avith numerous short, dense, leafy branches, quite glabrous m every 

 Fh^ ,^^<lical leaves oblong-spathulate or oblanceolate, 1 to li in. long, all 

 ine others lanceolate, oblanceolate or linear, rarely above | in. long, coria- 

 ceous, acute, entire or minutely toothed, often concave like those of Epacridea. 

 flowers blue, differing from all other species in being quite glabrous outside, 

 r ^f ort' axillaiy peduncles or branchlets, with 1 or 2 leaves and a pair ot 

 "racteoles close under the flower. Calvx-lobes ovate-triangular, shorter than 



