32 CV. THYMELEJ. [Pi 
Var. micrantha. Densely branched, aped vith shorter more paces - 
Flowers v very small pe depen sterile n ^cimens examine 
F.M e 
uell. ; Meissn. in Linne i 7 . Prod. xiv. 512. Murray a 
Darling Desert and se Vines Gulf, POM ler. 
Var. alpina, F. Muell. Diffuse much aoa and less silky, with short broad le 
often opposite. ent Saw, Cobberas and Munyong mountains at an clevation 
0 ft., F. Mueller. 
rsuta, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 518. A much-braneh 
pote with silky but e or less spreadin s 
MA gree or elliptical, ve shortly petiolate, 4 
ned ogether, in terminal or apparently 
e 
tube slender, 1$ to 2 lines long, circumsciss above the 
flowering, leaving a bottie-shaped persistent base as in P. 
but quite straight; lobes rather narrow. Filaments very short; an 
v a broad dorsal connective, the cells closely parallel on the 
Fruit acuminate, the epicarp membranous, the e endocarp with 
distinctly hooked MS as in P. latifolia.— P. congesta, R. Cunn. in sev 
herb., not of A. Cunn.; P. villifera, A. Cun a He rb. 
N. S. Wales. Blue Moni A.and R. aie Leichhardt, Miss Atki 
P. ovalifolia, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 502, from Port Jackson (or Blue Mon 
tains ?), Gandicha s , Which i have not seen, must, from the character given, be the 
same as this speci 
a Brisbane river, "usr pis F. Mueller ; Archer's Creek, . 
f. 
. S. Wales. Hastings pew Frazer, ©. Moore; Macleay and Clarence i 
Beier, Tweed river, C. ; Richmond river, Henderson ; New England, C. St 
Leichhardt's and Pre aca s specimens are remarkabl ly prio with lo: ham be 
leaves, and appear at first d very different from the original odes of F. Mue 
short almost or cmd leaves, but there are many frasi, ioa 
» R. Br. Prod. 361. A low irae with e 
