Mr. J. Miers on the germs Cyphanthera. 377 



H terminalibus, axillaribusque, subtomentosis, bracteis linearibus, 

 <: obtusis, merabrauaceis; calyce 5-dentato ; corolla fere tubulosa, 



bmbi laciniis acutiusculis, tubo duplo brevioribus; filamento 



rudimentario inter stamina longiora. — Sydney (in Hort. Bet. 



cult, et e Terra Diemen forsan introducta). — v. s. in herb. Hew- 



ard. (A. Cunningbam). 



This very distinct plant was placed by Cunningham as a spe- 

 cies of Myoporum, and found in a bundle of specimens collected 

 by him chiefly in the Botanic Garden at Sydney ; from its 

 resemblance to the following species, it has probably been intro- 

 duced from Van Diemen's Land, or perhaps collected there by 

 that botanist. The leaves are numerous, thick, coriaceous, of 

 dull aspect, 1| inch long, including the petiole, upon the mar- 

 gins of which they are decurrent to the base, and 3 or 4 lines in 

 breadth. The inflorescence is pseudo-paniculate, out of the ap- 

 proximated axils of the more recent branches, from the young 

 crowded leaves of which proceed a number of aggregated short 

 racemes of little more than half an inch long, all covered slightly 

 with soft pubescence, and consisting of a number of linear bracts 

 or leaflets, from the base of each of which a solitary pedicel 

 arises ; these, in fact, are probably only incipient branchlets, 

 which, as in Duhoisia, gradually lengthen into long seed-bearing 

 ramifications : in this early state of development the flowers ap- 

 pear therefore crowded in the extremities of the younger growing 

 branches ; the bracts are linear, a line long ; the pedicels are of 

 equal length ; the pubescent calyx, cupshaped and crowned with 

 five short teeth, is f line long ; the somewhat tubular yellow 

 corolla, marked with fifteen striated lines, is 2^ lines long, in- 

 cluding the oblong and somewhat acute segments of its border, 

 which are one-fourth of its whole length, and slightly covered on 

 both sides with short glandular hairs : the two longer stamens 

 are f the length of the tube, with a short rudimentary filament 

 between them, and the shorter pair are about half the length of 

 the others ; the filaments are much dilated at base, smooth, and 

 fixed a little above the base of the tube ; the ovary is oblong, half 

 immersed in the induvial base of the circumscissile corolla, 



2. Cyphanthera Tasmanica. Anthocercis Tasmanica, Hook. fil. 

 MSS., n. sp. ; — fruticosa, ramulis cinereo-tomentellis ; foliis 

 crebris, lanceolato-oblongis, apice obtusiusculis, e medio gra- 

 datim angustatis, imo linearibus et sessilibus, margine valde 

 revolutis, sulcato-nervosis, supra stellato-scabridis, subtus pul- 

 verulento-tomentosis, pube cinerea aut flavescente ; floribus 

 pallide flavis, axillaribus, solitariis, e turionibus pseudo-pani- 

 culatis, pedicello imo bibracteato, calyceque cinereo-tomen- 

 tosis, segmentis calycis corollseque linearibus ; capsula glo- 



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