16 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [D, 
2. Pleurandra sericea (Br. in DC. Syst. i. 416); suffrutex erectus sericeo-villosus, ramis hirsutis, 
foliis sparsis confertisve lineari-oblongis obtusis marginibus interdum revolutis, costa inferne valida, floribus 
sessilibus, sepalis oblongis villosis marginibus scariosis, petalis profunde bifidis, staminibus 8, ovariis 2 dense 
appresse tomentosis 4-ovulatis. — DC. Prodr. i. 72. P. densiflora, HooJc. Bot. Joum. i. 245. P. cinerea, 
Br. in DC. I. c. {Gunn, 636.) 
Hab. Common on sandy land, on the coast only, throughout the Island. Port Dalrymple, Col. Pat- 
terson, Lawrence, Gunn. — (Fl. Oct. Nov.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia. 
A very distinct species, well marked by the long silky hairs on the foliage and sepals, and dense villous to- 
mentum of the branches.— Plants rigid, erect, stout, 4-20 inches high. Branches erect, lower parta clothed with 
stellate pubescence, upper with long, silky, often compound, hairs. Leaves linear-oblong, §-§ inch long, 1-4 lines 
broad, blunt, generally narrow, with the margins revolute to the midrib, at times broad, with the back of the leaf 
exposed, and a stout broad midrib; under surface, except the midrib, covered with dense appressed tomentum, 
upper punctate at the base of the long hairs. Flowers large, f inch broad, conspicuous, sessile amongst the leaves. 
Petals lobed to one-third the way down. Stamens about eight. Carpels two (one, according to DC), densely covered 
with appressed down. Ovules four. Seeds two, with a deep brown testa and small-lobed aril. — Brown's P. cinerea 
appears to be a state of this, according to specimens in the British Museum. 
3. Pleurandra ovata (Lab. Nov. Holl. ii. 5. t. 143) ; erecta v. decumbens, ramis ramulisque 
sparse pilosis pubescentibusque, foliis obovatis v. obovato-oblongis obtusis marginibus recurvis superne pilis 
jperis glabratisve subtus pube stellata v. simplici asperis glaberrimisve, pedicellis folio sequilongis 
longioribusve, sepalis late oblongis aeutis dorso pubescentibus v. asperulis rarius glabratis pilosisve, petalis 
late obcordatis, staminibus sub-10, ovariis dense tomentosis 4-ovulatis. — DC. Syst. i. 418, Prodr. i. 72; 
Hook. Bot. Joum. i. 246. 
Yar. a. prostrata ; caulibus diffusis gi rsdfl superne glabratis albo-punctatis parce 
setulosis subtus remote asperulis. — P. ovata, Lab. I. c. {Gunn, 183.) 
Var. /3. scabra; caulibus erectis suberectisve fastigiatis robustioribus, foliis superne sparse setosis 
subtus setulis simplicibus v. stellatis sparsis scaberulis. — P. ovata, var., Lab. 1. c. P. scabra, Br. in DC. 
Sj/sL i. 419. P. astrotricha, Sieb. Plant. Entice, n. 149; Spreng. Syst. iv. 191 ; Lond. Joum. Bot. ii. 402. 
{Gunn, 893.) 
Hab. Yar. a. Abundant in sandy soil on the coasts in various places ; Huon River ; Recherche Bay ; 
Asbestos Hills, etc., Lawrence, Gunn ; Port Arthur, BacMouse. Yar. /3. Flinders' Island and Westhead, 
Tamar River, Gunn.— (El. Oct. to Jan.) {v. v.) 
Distrib. New South Wales and South-eastern Australia. 
Apparently an extremely variable plant, whose forms I have felt repeatedly inclined to separate into two 
species : one, the slender, prostrate, or subscandent twiggy plant, of the southern parts of the Island ; the other, the 
stout erect shrub from Flinders' Island and the Tamar River. I however find no difference whatever in the flowers 
and fruit of all these varieties ; the leaves vary similarly in each in form, size, and amount of scabridity and of 
stellate hairs on both surfaces ; and amount Vustralian specimens there appear to be still other states that do 
not accord in habit with any of the Tasmanian ones. This species breaks down the principal character upon 
which De Candolle found- his divisions Algnoidea and Hibbertiana. Sieber's P.parviflora (from Sydney?) seems 
the same as this, and differs from Brown's species in the leaves not being tomentose below. The P. scabra (Br. 
in DC.) does not seem to differ from ovata except in the srabglabrons calyx, and leaves subcanescent below; for I 
find the calyx to vary much in its hairiness, the leaves (as mentioned above) in the amount of clothing below, 
whilst the third character, founded on the supposed pilose ovaries, appears to me to be a misconception, all the 
specimens having densely-villous ovaries, which is possibly what Labillardiere meant by the term pilose. 
