Dilkniacea.] FLORA 01 Tasmania. i; 
Stems 1-3 feet Ion- or hijih ; prostrate, slender and twiggy, with distant haves, in rax. ■ ; erect, stoat, and leafy. 
in /3; bark red, more or less pulHse.nl. or with a few long hairs. /.,■„*■* l-\ inch bug, obmatc <-r limar-oboxate 
and Bpathulate, rarely linear-oblong or broadly oblong, blunt, contraeted into a ver\ short petiol, : 
covered with more or less copious white tubercles of various sizes, from which while - : 
revolote, seldom reaching the midrib below ; under snrfaee studded with innumerable orbieular m. 
whitish or glaucous hue to the broader haves, also more or less covered with scattered, simple or st, 
setuhe; midrib pilose. Peduncle* slender, pubescent, as long a- the haves. .VyW.v pubescent, an 
pilose. Flowers -i-f inch in diameter. Petals broadly obcordate, two-lobed, with a 
often monadclphous at the base. Cartels two, very villous ; ovuh-s four in each. Seed half-enveloped in a large 
3 aril. 
4. Pleurandra riparia (Br. in DC. Syst. i. 410) ; erecta, decambena v. | 
tibus erectisve gracilibus pubescentibus Bfcrigilloso-pilosis rarius glahratis, tV>lii> sparsis linearibus obtusis 
lsevibus scaberulisve marginibus ad costam revolutis, Ih.nbus tcrnnnahhus scssilibus v. breve peduneulatis, 
sepalis oblongis acuminatis glabris pubescentibus pilosisve, petalislate obcordatis, staminibus 2-8 lilamentis 
liberis v. basi monadelphis, carpcllis tomenfosis 1-ovulatis. — />r. Prodr. i. 72 .; H 
Var. a; caule basi dccumbcntc v. credo, foliifl Upollieanbus fevibus v. puree scaberulis, ramulis gla- 
brioribus. [Onnn, L82.) 
bescentibus. {Gnu,}, (i.'W.) 
A.u. 7. si, -..■/.; : stn'cta, creela, fi-ligiatun raniosa, foliis !-' -pollieanbus siiperne ramulisque scabridis 
cano-scaberulisw subtus glabrioribus.— I'. Bid -, i. 73. 
Aar. 8. mia-ojihylla ; foliis parvulis J-^-pollicaribus gl.ibri,.rilm<. \Gn,in t 22.) 
HAB. Abundanl throughout the Island. Var. a. In grassy and heathy places. Var. /3. In sterile and 
rocky places. Var. y. Spring Bay, and sea-c . ( ,.. „.) 
Distkib. New South Wales and South-eastern Australia, 
An extremely abundant and variable plant, which I have in vain endeavoured to divide into forms distinguish- 
able by any constant characters. I believe it to be also very common in Australia, and probably described under 
several names. The monadclphous filaments are certainly no character, all the forms having all, or some of them, 
more or less combined at the base, or quite free; and De Candolle's section CandoUeana, founded on this character 
Lose of Leueopogon era 
v. elliptico-oblongis acutis marginibus (non ad costam) 1 . olia mollibna 
(subtus dense) albo-tomentosis, floribus ramulis terminalibu- \ . bn vibus 1 lb 1 lil 1a si silibas, sepalis dense 
sericeo-toment -\ ris, carpcllis 2 
