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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



apex. Fruit capsular, at base 2-5-locular ; cocci free at apex obtuse, 

 produced in cornutus ; endocarp solubile. — Stellate toinentose or 

 squamulose undersbrubs ; leaves alternate simple coriaceous entire 

 punctuate ; flowers 1 solitary or cymose-subumbellate, axillary or sub- 

 terminal {Australia:). 



38. Pleurandropsis H. Bn. 3 — Flowers hermaphrodite without 

 sepals ; receptacle short conical. Petals 5, shortly unguiculate, 

 induplicate-valvate. Stamens 10-15, inserted with petals ; fila- 

 ments free filiform very unequal ; anthers oblong introrse. Car- 

 pels 5, free oppositipetalous ; germens connivent, outwardly densely 

 stellate-hirsute closely contiguous (not connate) ; styles same in 

 number more or less coherent at internal angle, at apex free re- 

 flexed thick subclavate patent, interior densely tuberculate-papillose. 

 Ovules in each germen 2, descending ; one sometimes aborting ; mi- 

 cropyle extrorse superior. "Fruit cocci 5, tornentose"? — A rigid 

 densely stellate-tomentose or woolly shrub; leaves alternate simple 

 obtuse or truncate rather thick ; flowers 4 terminal or falsely axil- 

 lary, 5 solitary or very few together ; leaves of superior branches and 

 bractlets very small few or sometimes 0, involucre of flowers and 

 calyx taking their place {Australia 6 ). 



89. Chorilsena Endl. 7 — Flowers nearly of Boronia (or Philotheca) ; 

 sepals 5, and petals same in number longer narrow-elongated. Sta- 

 mens 10, much longer than perianth; filaments filiform, inwardly 

 long enlarged with scales ; anthers oblong introrse. Grynseceum 

 (5-merous), fruit and other characters of Boronia (or Philotheca). — 

 Shrubs with stellate long hispid hairs; leaves alternate petiolate 

 sinuate-lobed ; flowers in pedunculate axillary cymes ; central 1 or 

 few subsessile ; exterior pedicellate; pedicels 2-bracteolate, dense, 

 bractlets equal or longer than sepal's {Western Australia 9 '). 



1 Small, whitish ; petals sometimes outwardly 

 stellate-pilose. 



2 Spec. 7, 8. A. Juss., in Mem. Soc. Hist. 

 Nat. Par., ii. 130, t. 10 {Phebalium). — P. 

 Muell., in Trans. Vict. Inst., i. 34 {Pheba- 

 lium) ; Fragm,, i. 105 ; PL Vict., i. 232 

 {Eriostemon). — Hook., Icon., t. 727 {Pheba- 

 lium). — Bentii., Fl. Austral., i. 349 {Astero- 

 lasia, part.). — Walp., Ann., iv. 407; vii. 523 

 {Asterolasia, part.). 



3 In Adansonia, x. 305. 



4 Pale yellow. 



5 Properly terminating the very short axillary 

 branchlets, whose few approximate leaves have 

 been taken for a calyx. 



6 Spec. 1. P. phebalioides H. Bn., loc. cit., 

 306. — Asterolasia phebalioides F. Muell., in 

 Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict., i. 10.— Bektii., Fl. 

 Austral., i. 351. — Eriostemon pleurandroides 

 P. Muell., Fragm., i. 106; PI. Vict., i. 133. 



7 In Hueg. Enum., 17 ; Gen., n. 6010 — 

 B. H., Gen. 295, 990, n. 43. 



8 Spec. 2. Benth., Fl. Austral,, i. 357. — 

 Walp., Ann., vii. 524. 



