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in gynobasic column, at apex all dilated, recurved, stigmatiferous, 

 free. Ovule solitary in germens, inserted at internal angle near base, 

 suborthotropous, ascending ; micropyle superior.— A very slender, 

 glabrous shrub; branches and twigs opposite; leaves opposite, 

 pellucid-punctulate, digitate-3-foliolate ; folioles membranous, un- 

 equally-crenate or dentate; flowers 1 in axillary cymes, generally 

 3-flowered, with very slender peduncules, shorter than the petiole 

 (JY. Caledonia-). 



30. Acradenia Kipp. 3 — Flowers nearly oiBoronia, hermaphrodite, 

 4-8-merous ; receptacle convex. Sepals small, subvalvate or imbri- 

 cated. Petals same in number, alternate, much longer, subunguicu- 

 late, velvety, imbricate. Stamens inserted with petals double in 

 number; alternipetalous longer ; filaments subulate glabrous; anthers 

 introrsely 2-rimose. Disk glandular within and above stamens ; lobes 

 rather prominent between base of filaments. Grynseceum inserted at 

 summit of receptacle ; carpels 4, 5 ; germens free, dorsally produced 

 in ovoid glands ; style inserted below apex of internal angle, after- 

 wards coherent and contorted among themselves, not dilated stigma- 

 tiferous at apex ; ovules in each germen 2, collaterally descending ; 

 micropyle extorse superior, blocked by .thick obturator. Fruit, cocci 

 separating, subquadrate compressed truncate ; endocarp solute de- 

 hiscent ; seeds . . . ? — A much ramified very glabrous shrub largely 

 glandular-punctuate; leaves opposite petiolate, 3-foliolate ; folioles 

 obtuse coriaceous crenate-serrate ; flowers 4 in axillary cymes 3-cho- 

 tomous pedunculate and bracteolate {Western Tasmania*). 



31. Crowea Sm. g — Flowers (nearly of Boronia) 5-merous or more 

 rarely 4-merous ; 7 receptacle convex. Sepals free or connate at 

 the base, imbricated, valvate or subvalvate, often incurved at apex 



1 Very small, "yirescentibus." 293, 990, n. 35 (incl. : Eriostemon Sm., Phe- 



- Spec. 1. Z. gracile H. Bn., lov. cit., 304. lalium Vent.). 



3 In Trans. Linn. Sue, xxi. 207, t. 22 7 Sometimes 6-S-merous in 1 species, viz., C. 

 (nee P. ^\1 tell.). — 13. H., Gen., 292, 990, Nottii {Eriostemon Nottii F. Muell., Frajm., 

 ii. 30. vi. 22), with calyx dentate, petals long narrowed 



4 White, not fragrant, ordinary. at base, disk very small and germens all free 



5 Spec. 1. A. FranhlinicB Kipp., loc. cit.— 5—7; stales inserted at middle of internal 

 BehTH., Ft. Austral., i. 32S. angle of germen, afterwards coalescing, at apex 



6 In Trans. Linn. Soc, iv. 220 (1798). — shortly infuiulibuliform capitate. Petals out- 

 DC, Prod,-., i. 720. — A. Jrss., in Mem. Mits., wardly lepidote, as are also leaves, germens, 

 xii. Ittl, t. 21, fig. 24.- Spach, Suit, a Baffon, styles, &c. Stirps oT Croioea, connected somc- 

 ji. 337. — Endi., Gen., n. G0u7. — B. II., Gen., what with Acradenia. 



