Cokauthera.] Lxvir. epacride^. 151 



long. Stigma enclosed -within the anther-cone or shortly protruding beyond 



'^^'—^icJiiea mjmphyanthera, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 96. t. 27; 8hjplidia 



Michiel, F. MuelL Fragm. vi, 80. 



W. Australia. Lrummoud, Uh Coll. ,u 154, Uk Coll. n. 302; dry rocky ridges, 

 Stirling Range, Salt River, Gardner Range, Maxwell. 



3. C. virgata, StscJiegL in Bull Mosc. 1859, i. 5. A shrub with elon- 

 gated virgate or flex nose branches, usually loosely pubescent. Leaves shortly 

 petiolate, linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse, concave, glabrous or loosely pu- 

 bescent, about I in. long on the main branches, shorter on the branchlets. 

 Peduncles very short. Bracts and bracteoles of C. myrtoides, and flowers 

 also tlie same, except that the corolla-lobes are bearded at the base only, and 

 as well as the anthers are rather longer than in that species. 



W. Australia, Briminond, Uk Coll. n. 803. 



ASTROLOMA 



(Ventenatia, Cav.y Stenanthera, R, Br„ Stomarrhena, DC, Pentataphrus, Schlccht 



Mesotriche, Stsckegl.) 



Corolla-tu]be elongated, cylindrical or slightly ventricose, either with 5 

 tufts of hairs or densely haij'y scales inside above the base or rarely without 

 either ; lobes linear or lanceolate, bearded inside or rarely glabrous, valvate, 

 wet at the base round the anthers, spreading or recurved at the top ouly 

 ^more spreading in A. stomarrhena) . Filaments short, often much flattened, 

 inseiled m the throat ; anthers oblong or linear, 1 -celled, attached above the 

 ffiiddle or almost at the top. ■ Hypogynous disk cup-shaped or annular, trun- 

 cate or obscurely lobed. Ovary 5 -celled, with 1 ovule in each cell; style 

 nlitorm, as long as or longer than the corolla-tube ; stigma capitate, often 

 ^••ge and hairy, rarely 5-lobed. Fruit a drupe, with a diy or slightly pulpy 

 mesocarp and a hard bony endocarp, with 5 cells and seeds, or fewer by abor- 

 non.---LeaTes sessile or scarcely petiolate. Flowers solitary in the axUs on 

 jery short pedicels or almost sessile, surrounded bv several bracts of which 



rem 2 to 4 of the innermost are gradually enlarged and as well as the still 



^rger bracteoles embrace the base of the calyx. 



wJ}" ^'""' '' '^™ited to Australia. It is readily distinguished from Sii/p/ielia by the au- 

 he L""''^ ^"'^ concealed within the coroUa-tuhe or the erect base of its lobes, and from 

 fie la ger flowered species of Leucopoffon by the inflorescence, by the t.ifts of hairs m the 



tube, or by the dUateJ filaments, and in the great majority of species by all three characters. 



a£nli^' ^^"'^'"'^'^^^'^■-Corona.luies v>Uh 5 iufts of hairs inside helow the middle, 



'"ff Kilh the stamens and sometimes confluent in a ring. 



"^ca^^^ ^^^*:^^ OJ^ scarcely flattened. Leaves convolute or cou- 

 Plant h ^^^^^^ ^^ minutely scabrous-denticulate. 



1, f , J'y- Stamens protruding beyond the somewhat revo- 



Plant 1 r '*' "^ "^'"^^ ^'^^"3^ "^^s^ -^^ ^- stomarrhena. 



glabrous or the branches slightly pubescent. Stamens 

 enclosed in the erect base of the lobes, 

 l^eaves narrow-lanceolate. Sepals acute, 7 to 8 lines long . 2. A. macrocaJyx. 



eaves nai-row-lanceolate. Sepals almost obtuse, about 4 

 iines long \ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ , ^ %, A, xer^ 



