Huttneriacea.] FLORA OF TASMANIA. 51 
Densely pubescent. — Leaves \\-2 inches long, triangular-cordate, rather truncate at the base, very blunt, white 
below, with stout nerve-, margins waved; petiole I iueli long. F:< >r>-rs capitate, on very short pedicels; peduncle 
as long as the petiole. Bract much larger than the (lower, ilee])!y three-lohcd to the base, white with ferruginous 
down at the base of each lobe, middle scgmeul much the longc-t. C: ;/.;• enmpauulate. j inch b»n^, densely villous 
externally, bluish internally ; lobes ovate-lanceolate. Petals oboi longer than the ovary, with 
filiform iilaments and slender anthers opening by lenninal pores, tinir ineuduanous apex hilohed parallel to the 
loculi, outer lobe spreading. Ovary very villous, with white hair-. Style slender, quite glabrous, with a minute 
three-lobed stigma. Fruit not seen. — This appears to be almo-t identical with a Swan Kiver plant, but that ha- 
rather longer peduncles to the cymes; and considering how distant the countries are, and how far species are 
common to both, I hesitate to unite them without better data than 1 possess. 
2. Lasiopetalum Gmmii (Steetz in Plant, Preiss. ii. 84fc) ; foliis ovato- v. lineari-oblongis late 
deltoideo-ovatisve basi truncatis cordato-bilobisve superne glabris subtus albo-tomentosis junioribus rufes- 
centibus, cymis breve pedunculitis pat ispido. — I., dasypbyllum, V. '.. \ 
in Journ. Bot. ii. 414. (Gunn, 551 in part, et 1032.) 
Hab. Bocky Cape, and islands in Bass' Straits, in shingle close to the sea, Guun.—(F1. Dec Feb. 
A small shrub in Tasmania, which (lunn found only when' it was extremely stunted In : 
winds, owdng to which the tops of the Bank-ins. and other plant- amongst which it grew, appeared as il they had 
been cut off with a BCythe. — Whole plant coarser and more robust than /.. tlisrolor, covered with i- 
brown w r ool when dry, the young leaves and shoots with often a terruginous or oehn -.>u-. ■ 
often deflexed, margins not crisped or waved, under surface generally wh H 
to twenty-flowered. Flowers crowded, shortly pedicelled. \ inch diameter, densely ton., n' 
Bracts tripartite, lobes narrow, variable in length, seldom longer than the tlower. Calyx hemispherical, lobes 
ovate-oblong, densely stellate-pubescent. Petals minute, obovatc Stamens shorter than the ovary, with short 
filaments, and linear anthers, with extrorse slits and minute terminal pores (empty of pollen in my specimens). 
Ovary spherical, densely covered with stellate hairs, three- or four-celled; ovxdes two, collateral, ascending, style 
simple, densely hairy below, suddenly contracted, glabrous and subulate, with three or four minute stigmata. Seed 
solitary in each cell, erect, oblong, with a bilobed arillus and pilose brown testa. 
This plant appears to me to be dioecious, and none of its flowers have polleniferous anthers. I should not have 
ventured to separate it from L. dasypliyllum, but for the opinion of Steetz, who appears to have better specimens of 
Sieber's plant than I have. Of the distinctive characters between them which he points out, the hispid base of the 
style is the only important one ; the size and shape of the leaves, amount and colour of tomentum, size of the 
flowers and their tomentum, are all as variable as possible in this species and its allies, as any good series of speci- 
mens proves. The ovary and capsule are often five-celled. 
3. Lasiopetalum micranthum (Hook, fil.) ; foliis breve petiolatis anguste linearibus subacutis 
marginibus recurvis subtus dense albo-tomentosis, cymis paucifloris, floribus pedicellatis paucis, bracteae 
lobis latis flore brevioribus, calycis laciniis subulato-lanceolatis acuminatis, pilis dorso simplicibus, petalis 
miriimis, antheris brevibus longitudinaliter dehiscentibus, stylo basi glabro. (Gunn, 1033.) 
Hab. Eastern Tier, near Oyster Bay, and on hills thirty-five miles south-east of Launceston, 0mm. 
A small erect species, whose anthers dehiscing by longitudinal slits perhaps ally it to the genus Guichenotia, 
Gay, but which in all other respects agrees with bmopetohm. It is very nearly allied to the L. parrijlorum (Kudge 
in Linn. Soc. Trans, x. 297. t, 19. f. 2), but the petals are far more acute and the filaments are longer.— Branches 
slender Leaves 1-2 inches long, linear, with recurved margins, glabrous above, white with stellate tomentum 
below, subacute, blunt at the base, on short petioles. Cymes small, on slender peduncles \-\ inch long. Fhicers 
few, pedicelled. ' Bract three-lobed, lobes spreading, shorter than the calyx, obovate-oblong, blunt. Calyx T inch 
