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36 ‘CV. THYMELEÆ. [ Drapetes, 
albumen ; cotyledons ovate, thick.—Small prostrate densely tufted 
shrubs. Leaves alternate, small, imbricate, concave. Flowers in sm 
Zealand, on , and from Antarctic America. Endlicher 
have proposed limiting the genus to that species in which the perianth is circum 
e ovary, leaving the ortion persistent round the fruit, as in the sec 
1. D. tasmanica, Hook. f. in Hook. Kem Journ. v. 299, t. 7, 4 
Fl. Tasm. i. 380. The prostrate intricately-branched tufts of this littl 
e 
Victoria. Munyong mountains and Mount Kosciusko, at an elevation of 60001 
very rare, J’. Mueller. 
Tasmania. Summits of the Western mountains, abundant, Gunn 
3. WIKSTRGMIA, Endl. 
Perianth tubular, with a spreading 4-lobed limb without scales in 
throat. Stamens 8, the Moe sessile, those opposite the peria 
lobes inserted in the throat, the alternate ones in the tube. Hypogy 
nous scales 4, free or more or less united in pairs. Ovar with L 
pendulous ovule; style beg short. Fruit a berry-like drupe, t 
t i : 
here and there alternate. Flowers in short terminal or axillary rac 
spikes or heads, without involucral bracts. 
The genus extends over a great part of tropical Asia and the islands of the A 
pelago and the Pacific. The only Australian species. ide range over the 
of the genus. 
