- Tylomelum.] CIV. PROTEACER, 409 
Bracts small and road, imbricate in the very young spike, but very 
deciduous, Perianth 3 to 34 lines long. Ovary villous. Style shortly 
103 in. long, not so broad as in X. pyriforme and peig into a thick 
beak recurved at the end.—X. pyriforme, var. salicinum, R. Br. Prot. 
Nov. 31; Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 423; Helicia Scottiana, F. Muell. 
„iv. 107; Xylomelum Seottianum, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 174, 215. 
om: Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham; Dogwood Creek, Leichhardt ; 
Rockingham Bay, Dallachy; Darling Do u. 
wns, La 
. 
lium, Kipp. ; Meissn. d. xiv. 498. A 
with erect virgate branches, the inflorescence and 
? with a short transparent 
Pmdescence in some flowers labrous in others, but in all those ex- 
Em I found the anthers perfect and the ovary abortive, the perfect 
sab ny possibly therefore have the thick stigma of X. salicinum. 
t ovoid, oblique, about 24 in. long, slightly contracted towards the 
— id, covered with a very close but dense tomentum. 
| iy, Australia, Drummond, 5th coll. suppl. n. 7; Forrest? (in herb. F. Mueller); 
Tange, Murchison river, Oldfield. 
16. CARNARVONIA, F. Muell. 
dui vers hermaphrodite. Perianth regular, nearly cylindrical itas 
Without 4, oients fi 1 recurved in the upper portion, 
Vithout distin hey or nearly so, | p 
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: 
d of the pan, the connective produced beyond the cells. No 
; vary se so, taper 
(e middle pe terminal stigma; ovules 2, laterally attached below 
med, Produced at the upper end into a long wing.—A tree with 
pe d leaves. Flowers small, in axillary simple or compound irre- 
racemes, , ; 
Poppe" is limited to a și 1 i demic in Australia, with the flowers nearly 
rites ra but with the “fruit of. sprig g Iei also closely allied in charaeter to 
with à very different habit and inflorescence. 
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