Jsfroloma.] lxvit, epacride^. 157 



W, Australia. Swan River, Bmminond, 1st ColL n. 468, 469, 4^th CoIL n, 136, 5/^ 

 ^olL n. 296 ; gravelly places, York district, Preiss, n. 467 ; clay flats, Blackwood river, and 

 sandstoae rocks. Doubtful Island Bay, Oidfield ; Lucky Bay, Baxter ; near Cape Kiche, 



naney; Kalgan Ranges, Brewer Bay, and Cape Arid, Maxwell ; Stirling Range, Z 



Mueller, 



A, marginatum, Sond. in PL Prciss. i. 299, described from Preiss's specimeus, n. 471, 

 Without flowers or fruit, if an Astroloma at all, may be this species. Tlie leaves, however, 

 are flatter. 



13. A. Drummoudii, Sond, in FL Preiss, i. 299. Stems from a tliick, 

 ^oody trunk, erect or ascending, simple or branched, often virgate, pubescent 

 hirsute or rarely almost glabrous. Leaves linear, tapering into a short 

 point, erect or rarely spreading, convex, with entire, recurved or revolute 

 margins, often hoary underneath, and sometimes pubescent on both sides, 

 ^^rely above | in. long, and mostly shorter. Flou'ers red, nearly sessile- 

 -Bracteoles above 1 line long. Sepals .acute or almost obtuse, glabrous or 

 pubescent, about 3 lines long. Corolla-tube 4 to 5 lines long, with 5 dense 

 tufts of hairs inside above the base ; lobes about 2 lines long, bearded inside 

 With acutely acuminate, glabrous tips. Tilaments short, very flat; anthers 

 optuse, inserted above the mldine.—Sl^phelia DrimmondU, F. Muell. Fragra. 

 ^1- 37; Astroloma hirsulum, Stschegl. in Bull. Mosc. 1859. i. 7. 



^- -'^^stralia. Between King George's Sound and Swan River, Harvey, Brummond, 

 4a Coll n. 135, U8; Vasse river, 3frs. Molloy ; Hay river, Esperauce Bay, MaxicelL 



Drummond's 3rd CoU. Suppl. n. 73, in bud only, appears to be this species ; n. 72 of the 

 same Coll., in still younger bud, may be either this or A, microcahjx, 



14. A, microcalyx, Sond. in PL Preiss. i. 298. A much branched, 

 J^ect or diffuse shrub of 1 to 2 ft., the branchlets minutely pubescent, 

 i'eaves usually spreading, linear or narrow oblong, mucronate-acute or obtuse, 

 minutely denticulate-ciliate or almost entire, convex or with recurved mar- 

 ges and often glaucous underneath, 3 to 4 lines or rarely \ in. long. Flowers 

 nearly sessile. Bracteoles under 1 line long. Sepals minutely mucronate, 2 

 ^0 2a liaes long, often pubescent. Corolla-tube 4 to 5 lines long, with 5 

 tieuse tufts of hairs inside above the base, slightly hairy at the throat ; lobes 

 J^ect, with pointed tips, bearded inside towards the end. FQaments short, 

 nat. Hypogj^nous disk very short, truncate. Fruit scarcely so long as the 



^^}'^'-—Shjp/ielia microcahjx, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 37. 



a ^^^ ^^^^^-^^a. Swan River, Drummond, \st ColL n, 470, Preiss, n. 470. Possibly 



s^au-flowered variety of ^. DmmmondiL 

 tJ: f''''''^<^^''s, Sond. in PI. Preiss. i. 298, from Swan River, Drummond, n. 475 in some 

 SI "^\ ^^^ ^" others, only known in fruit, appears to me to be the same as A. micro- 

 otW • . ^"^^^'^^^ a^e obtuse or with a much smaller point than in the common form, but 

 "inerwise similar. 



Sect H. PENXATAPmius.— Corolla-tube with 5 deflexed, fringed scales 

 flatten ]'^^^ ^^"^ ^^^^MX^, alternating with the stamens. Filaments much 



.*A^-.A, Baxteri, DC, Prod, vii. 739. An erect or diffuse shrub, 

 ^^ttaimng 2 or 3 ft. the branches nubescent. Leaves linear, mucronate- 



acut "• " ^^ ^ ^^'' ^^^ branches pubescent. ^- ^ . 



^^' nunutely sernilate-ciliate, convex, with recurved margins, rarely ^ m. 



