Drummondiane. N. O. Rutacez. 
TAB. DCCXXVII. 
PHEBALIUM SQUAMULIGERUM. Hook. 
Ramis ovariisque (precipue) squamulosis, squamis peltatis 
tadiatim spinulosis appressis, foliis anguste oblongis obtusis, 
umbellis plurifloris, staminibus sub-10, ovario profunde 
trilobo, stylo superne latiore, stigmate magno trilobo. 
Has. Collected between Swan River and King George’s Sound. 
Mr. James Drummond. 
The present plant is unquestionably of the same genus of 
Rutacee with that figured at Tas. pccxxiv. It differs, how- 
ever, remarkably in its clothing. The leaves indeed, except 
the young ones, are naked; but the branches and ovaries, and 
all the other parts of the plant which in our P. stelligerum are 
covered with stellated and stipitate pubescence, are here beset 
with little, sessile, peltate scales of a beautiful structure when 
seen under a microscope, or they may be considered as rigid 
radiating hairs, united by a scale-like membrane forming the 
disc of the scale. There are besides other differences. The 
flowers are more numerous in the umbel, and much smaller ; the 
petals are more acute; the anthers have a more decided con- 
nectivum ; the ovaries are freer; the style is shorter and 
thicker upwards 3 and the lobes of the stigma are much 
larger. 
Fig. 1, 2. Flowers, /, 3. Stamen. f-4. Pistil. f. 5. Trans- 
verse section of an ovary. /. 6. Front, and—/. 7. side view 
of a ciliated scale :—all more or less magnified. 
