372 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Anthocercis. 



Bauer's drawing in Endlicher's ' Iconographia ' above quoted, 

 but I can perceive no difference in it from the typical plant, 

 where the leaves are always more or less serrulate, and the tube 

 of the corolla often somewhat narrower, as in the drawing re- 

 ferred to. This species has larger leaves and flowers than any 

 other belonging to the genus, and is well distinguished by the 

 many viscous glands imbedded in hollows on the surface of 

 the leaves. The leaves are If to 2 inches long, including the 

 petiole, and | to 1^ inch broad. The inflorescence is probably 

 an abortive raceme. In Baiier's figure the peduncle above the 

 bracts bears three flowers ; all the specimens I have seen are 

 1 -flowered, but that may result from the abortion of the others ; 

 the peduncle is 6 to 9 lines long ; the bracts 4 to 6 hues in length j 

 the pedicel, 9 to 12 lines long, is articulated a little above the 

 point of insertion of the bracts ; the tube of the calyx is 5 lines, 

 its segments 5 to 6 lines in length ; the corolla 1^ to 2 inches 

 long, the border, when expanded, 2^ inches in diameter; in 

 aestivation the lobes are somewhat unequal in length, the upper 

 lobe is a little shorter, the two lower lobes are a trifle the longest 

 of all, and upon this side are placed the two longer stamens, 

 which are nearly the length of the tube, with a short rudimentary 

 filament between them ; the stamens are quite glabrol^s ; the 

 anthers are 2-lobed, bursting extrorsely. 



2. Anthocercis littorea, Labill. Nov. HoU. ii. 19. tab. 158; Benth. 

 in DC. Prodr. x. 191 ; Bot. Reg. tab. 212 ; Sw. Fl. Aust. 1. 17; 

 Botanist, t. 102; — finiticosa, glaberrima, foliis cuneato-ob- 

 longis, integerrimis, vel nonnuUis interdum spinoso-pauci- 

 dentatis, sessilibus ; inflorescentia e ramulis novellis pseudo- 

 racemosa, floribus axillaribus, subsolitariis, pedicellis basi brac- 

 teatis, corollse laciniis lineari-acutissimis, tubo duplo longio- 

 ribus, filamentis imo ciliatis, antheris 2-locularibus extrorsis. 

 — Swan River et King George's Sound. — v. s. in herb. Hook. 

 (Eraser). 



This species is very distinct from the former, its perfectly 

 glabrous leaves being narrower, more thick and fleshy than in 

 the former species; they ai-e 1^ inch long, 4 to 6 lines broad. 

 The young axillary branchlets are floriferous, producing fresh 

 flowers as they become elongated, from 6 lines or an inch in 

 length, until they bear the appearance when in finiit of a many- 

 flowered raceme 3 to 4 inches long : the pedicel is slender, 2-3 

 lines in length, becoming thickened in fruit, and 6 lines long;' 

 the calyx, 3 lines in length (including the linear fleshy segments 

 of 2 lines), is 5-keeled; the corolla is 8-9 lines in length, of a' 

 sulphur-yellow colour, smooth outside ; the tube is 3 lines long. 



