380 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Cyphanthei-a. 



6. Cyphanthera scabrella. Antbocercis scabrella, Benth. in DC. 

 Prodr. X. 192; — fruticulosa^ tota pube substellata scabrella, 

 vamulis gracillimis, elongatis ; foliis parvis, elliptico-oblongis, 

 margine revolutis, breviter petiolatis ; floribus ad apicem ra- 

 mulorum novorum subsolitariis, pedicellis gracilibus calyce 

 2-3-plo longioribus, calycis glabri laciniis lanceolato-subulatis, 

 sinubus latiusculis; corollse parvse laciniis linearibus, tubo 

 subduplo longioribus. — In Novse Hollandise montibus cseru- 

 leis. — V. s. in herb. Hook. (A. Cunningham). 



This is a plant with still more slender branches than the last, 

 with more glabrous and smaller leaves, and all sparsely covered 

 with very short rigid ramose or branching hairs, making it 

 almost scabrous : the leaves are about 4, rarely 5 lines long and 

 2 lines broad, upon a very short slender pubescent petiole : the 

 flowers are few and almost solitary at the termination of the 

 nascent branchlets, upon a capillary pedicel 3 lines in length ; 

 the calyx, including the narrow teeth, which are half its length, 

 is 1 line long, it is membranaceous with rounded intervals be- 

 tween the teeth ; the corolla is tubular, campanular above, marked 

 with fifteen dark parallel lines, and the border is divided into five 

 very long linear segments : the shorter pair of stamens are half 

 the length, the longer pair two-thirds the length of the tube, 

 with a fifth filament intermediate with the latter and half the 

 length of the former, bearing at its apex a small glandular lobe : 

 the ovary is seated on an aduate disk with its margin undulated, 

 and the style is articulated at its base. 



7. Cyphanthera ovalifolia, n. sp. ; — fruticosa, ramis subpubescen- 

 tibus, ramulis virgatis, dense griseo-tomeutosis ; foliis parvulis, 

 ovalibus, patentibus, sessilibus, margine revolutis, crassis, su- 

 pra fusco- subtus griseo- vel fulvo-tomentosis, pube brevissima 

 rigida, intricato-brachiata ; floribus brevissime subpaniculatis, 

 1-2-3-ve, axillaribus, pedicellis 1-floris, singulo e cupula sti- 

 pitata orto ; calycis utrinque hirsutuli brevis segmentis acutis, 

 tubo Eequilongis; coroUse laciniis oblongo-acutis, tubum campa- 

 nulatum calyce duplo longiori 15-striatum subgequantibus ; 

 capsula parva, globosa, imo calyce induta. — Nova Hollandia, 

 W. M'Arthur. — v. s. in herb. Hook. (Backhouse). 



This species is very much of the same aspect as the three 

 preceding, but is readily distinguished by its spreading, small, 

 oval, sessile leaves, densely covered with thick tomentum ; these 

 are 3 to 4 lines long, li to 2^ lines broad ; the axillary raceme 

 is very short, presenting the appearance of three or four alteniate 

 cupshaped nodes, out of each of which (or some of them are 

 abortive) proceeds a slender pedicel 1 line long, bearing a calyx 



