224 | CXIV. SANTALACEJE. : m 
allbcogh opening in 4 lobes as in all Leptomeric, have the lobes less dis- 
tinct than in some species, and the central scis i very prominent. 
Fruit gobular, crowned by the persistent perianth-lobes, small and 
gps Prod. xiv 3 
Rn Md A cerit re, bur: not seen ripe.—A. DC. Pro . 679. 
Swan river, Preiss, n. 2096; Swan and SUN rivers, CUR 
T y. Pd noo coll.?) n. 228; King George’ s Sound, Mui 
11. L. empetriformis, Mig. in Pl. Preiss. i. 010. An erect much 
branched shrub, of 1 to 2 ft., the branches terete, often more or less 
sprinkled or covered with minute pem ille but not really hir- 
sute and the papille varying much even on di d 
specimen. Leaves terete, rather flesiy, contracted at the base, 1} to 
24 lines long, deciduous on the main branches. Flowers in loose leafy 
much contracted at se. Perianth about 2 3 line long, the lobes at 
least as long as tapers into a very short pede p 
ra de xiv. 680; L. hirtella, Miq. in Pl. Preiss. i. 610; C 
c. 
i as, Swan river, Preiss, n. 2094, 2113. 
r. Prod. 354. A divaricately andhok shrub 
12. 
of 14 ft. with Ae ein Leaves linear-terete, tent, rather 
thick, 14 to 3 s long. Flowers very shortly veloce, solitary 
in the upper cvy and very much shorter than the leaves, the raceme 
forming a leafy branch. Perianth opening to 3 line rater den ya lobed. 
Anthers 2-celled. Nut réel pl is crowned by the persistent 
aeria th-lobes.—DC., Pro 
stralia. DEN s oiu Vis R. Brown. I p ve taken the descrip- 
tion bch Cn naire r. Brown’ s notes, his specimens have unexpanded flow ae and 
y see one ual from which, howeve eT, "the perianth- lobes are s fallen away. 
with t from near Port Enolo, J. Forest, in Herb. F. Mueller, may 
possibly I belong to the ae speci 
18. L. laxa, Mig. in Pl. Preiss. i. 612. A small shrub with je 
erect slender simple stems of about ft., leafless at the base. 
in the upper part ae scattered, semiterete, at first soft, at lng 
ó a 
Preiss, n. 2120. I have not seen any specimen answering t0 ihe 
. L. obovata, Mig. in Pl. Preiss. i. 619. A shrub with gtey 2 
aguas branches. Leaves scattered, mince obovate or obovate — 
aim : 
d T it was described by Miquel from a single one past flowering and bearinB? . 
