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lobes linear-lanceolate, acute, densely bearded, scarcely shorter than the tube, 

 Dmpe ovoid. 5-ribbed, about as long as the calyx. — DC. Prod. vii. 735 ; 

 Hook. f. Fl. Tasra. i. 243 ; F. Muell. Eragm. vi. 36. 



Victoria. Stony places in the Grampians, F, Mueller; Wimmera, Dallaclii/, 

 Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, E. Broicn ; dry pastures, heaths, etc., near Hobarton, 

 Circular Head, etc., common, J, B. Hooler. 



2. S. longifolia, R, Br. Trod, 537. An erect shrub, with virgate softly 

 pubescent branches. Leaves long-lanceolate, gradually tapering into a fine 

 rigid point, concave, 1 to 2 in. long or the lower ones still longer. Flowers 

 green, solitary in the axils, nearly sessile. Bracteoles about 3 lines long, 

 rather obtuse. Sepals 7 to 9 lines long, acute. Corolla-tube ncarly^ 1 in. 

 long, with 6 dense confluent tufts of hairs above the base, less hairy in the 

 iipper part ; lobes linear, bearded inside. Hypogynous scales broad, more 

 or less cohering at the base, free and spreading at the top. Drupe ovoid, 5- 

 ^^gled, 3 or 4 lines lon^.— DC Prod. vii. 735 ; Bot. Eeg. t. 24 i Lodd. 

 Bot. Cab. t. 1583. 



N. S. "Wales, Port Jackson, 2?. Broicn^ Sieler, n. 77, and others. 



3. S. Iseta, 7?. Br. Prod, 537. An erect shrub, with spreading softly 

 pubescent branches. Leaves in the typical form ovate ovate-lanceolate or 

 broadly oblong, shortlv tapering into a rigid point, under 1 in. long, flat or 

 concave. Flowers pale red ?, very shortly pedicellate, solitary in the axils, 

 l^racteoles obtuse, about 2 lines "long. Sepals about 5 lines long, rather 

 jicute. CoroUa-tube ^ to | in. long, with 5 dense tufts of hairs inside above 

 ^e base, and hairy towards the throat j lobes long, revolute, bearded inside, 

 hypogynous scales cohering in a scarcely lohed cup, but readily separatmg. 



DC. Prod. vii. 735 • /?. InilfMa Sip.h. PL Exs. 



vn. 735 ; 8. latifoUa 



oth^" ^" '^^^®^* P°^ Jackson to the Blue IMoimtains, U. Brown, Sieher, n. 80, and 



P f^-J"^'f°^^^- Leaves short, very broadly ovate and very concave.— /S. latifoUa, R. Br. 

 ^rod. d37 ; DC. Prod. vii. 735.— Hawkesbnry river, R. Brown. 



Var. angnsilfolia, Benth. in Hues. Enum. 70. Leaves narrow-lauceolate, J to nearly 1 

 '0- long.-5. angmfifoHa, DC. Prod. vii. 735 ; S. lata, Reichenb. Icon. Exot. t. 99. Port 

 atksoQ and Blue Mountains, Sieifir, n. 79, and others. 



4- S. triflora, Jndr. Bot. Rep. t. 12. A tall shrub, quite glabrous or 

 He branches very ininutelv pubescent. Leaves from obovate-oblong to ob- 

 long-lanceolate, very shortly tapering into a rigid poiut, flat or more or less 

 ^oncave, rarely exceeding 1 in., and the broad ones at the base of the shoots 

 otten very short. Flowers pale pink and yellow, very shortly-pedicellate, 

 solitary or very rarely 2 (or 3 ?) together iA the lower axils and often ap- 

 pearing clustered at the base of the shoot, especially when some of the floral 

 '^J^^'es are small or abortive. Bracteoles obtuse, about 2 lines long. Sepals 

 o-»tuse or almost acute, about 5 lines long. Corolla valuing in size, but the 

 T^ usually about | in., with 5 dense tufts of hairs inside above the base. 

 "JPo^nous scales more or less cohering in a truncate or shortl" ^-'-'^ """ 

 rf- ^^- Prod. 537 ; DC. Prod. vii. 735 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1397 ; 

 ^°- t- 426 ; S. glancescens, Sieb. V\. Exs. 



^- S. "Wales. Port Jackson to tbe Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 75, 86, and 



Lodd 



