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solitary, shortly pedicellate, with a pair of bracteoles below the calyx, 
the upper flowers sometimes forming a leafy spike. 
growth of the endocarp round the seeds, filling up the cavity in the upper part, but 
usually leaving in the lower part a vacuity or so-called fifth empty cell. 
Flowers mostly axillary and distant. Eastern species. 
Leaves lanceolate, the margins scarcely revolute, shortly hispid 
th sides, not cottony underneath. Flowers large, the 
tube narrow te tac a 1o. wide rop c ee es ee RC E 
Leaves narrow with very recurved margins, white underneath. 
Corolla tube narrow (variable in size), glabrous inside except 
the ring of hairs near the base i C. stechadis. 
Corolla-tube short and broad, hairy inside under the oppor lip 3. C. parviflora. 
Flowers in short leafy spikes at the ends of the branches. Western 
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Pityrodia uncinata and P. Bartlingii are usually placed in Chloanthes, of which they 
have the anthers, but the corollas as well as scattered non-decurrent leaves are those of 
Pityrodia. 
. C. glandulosa, R. Br. Prod. 514. An erect perennial or under- 
shrub, nearly resembling C. stechadis, but coarser and taller. Leaves 
fully } in., the peduncles 3 to 4 lines long, with short linear bracts 
below the midll 
- S. Wales. Grose river, R. Brown ; Blue Mountains, A. and R. Cunningham. 
Further observations may possibly show this to be a luxuriant variety of e. 
8techadis. 
2. C. steechadis, R. Br. Prod. 514. A perennial or undershrub, 
with erect simple or branched stems of 1 to 2ft. Leaves opposite, 
linear or linear-lanceolate, but often almost terete owing to the re- 
r than the calyx, 
middle o ower down into 5 lanceolate o ear herbaceous lobes, 
bullate like the leaves. Corolla in the typical form above 1 in. long, 
pubescent outside be gradually dilated upwards, and slightly 
