Rutacea.] FLORA OF TASMANIA. ft 
The character of the flowers being erect, aa given by DeCandoUe and other*, is erroneous Ike tar. 5. wmmidmm 
folia is evidently a starved fonn from exposed phuvs ; it strongly resembles stales of ('. Backhousiana. 
Gen. 11. HIEBAL1UM, JW. 
Ca^ 4-5-fidus. Petala 4-5, imbricata (rarius valvata). Amnm B, Itlb disco hj] 
filamentis glabris. O^Wa 4-5 (rarius 2), disco inserta, lcpidota v. pilosa. Stylus 1, teres v. angulatus 
ttigmate simplici, capitate Capsula 2-5-cocca. Semen 1, ovatum, testa Crustacea, umbilico ventral 
Embryo a.xi albuminis carnosi, gracilis, teres, radicula supera. — Frutices pubes ■ 
glandulosi ; foliis altera]*, glauihdoso-j,uiictat'm ; lloribus ax'dlaribm, subcymosis v. paniculate. 
An extensive Australian genus, containing upwards of thirty species, all extratropical, and mostly native- of 
the West Coast. One species is a native of New Zealand.— (ilandular. pubescent, scaly or pilose, < 
shrubby plants, with alternate glandular leaves, and llowers in axillary cymes or panicle-. They are oft. 
tinguished from Eriostemon by the more slender glabrous filaments. Calf* quadritid or quinquefid. Pttali \ 
Stamens eight, inserted on a hypogynous disc; filaments glabrous. Ovaries four or live, rarely fewer. 
pilose. Style one, terete or angled. Stigma simple, capitate. Capsule of two to five < 
Embryo in the axis of lleshy albumen. (Name, that of the Myrtle, and inapp 
. Billardieri (Adr. Juss. .Mem. Soc. Hist. Xat. Fans, ti. 131) ; frutcx m . : 
fusco-lepidotis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis oblongo-linearibusve aculis obi bo-h-pidntis. 
cymis axillaribus 3-5-floris v. tematim munitions. — //■/-. Cvmp. Hot. Mag. i. 277. V. elaaguifoliuin, 
Sieber, PI. Exsicc. n. 111. Eriostemon Bquamea, Lab. Nov. Holt. i. 111. /. 141. [Gun*, 451.) 
Var. /3. retusum ; minor, foliis miuoribus densioribus apicc retusis. — 1\ rctusuin, // 
Mag. i. 254, Ic. El. t. 57. {Gunn, 455.) 
Hab. Abundant throughout the Colony in damp woods. Var. /3. In drier places, Labdlarddre, etc. 
— (Ti. Oct. Nov.) {v. v.) 
Distrib. New South Wales. 
A small tree or shrub, 4-10 feet high, conspicuous for its strong smell, silvery under surface of the Leave*, 
and numerous small white and pink flowers. — Leaves 1-3 inches long, lanceolate, ovate or linear4anceolate or 
linear-oblong, sharp, blunt, retuse, or almost bifid at the point ; under surface covered densely with appressed 
silvery or rufous scales. Flowers small, i inch across, in lepidote cymes, which are reduced to three-flowered 
peduncles, or temately branched and many-flowered. Ovules superimposed, ascending ; micropyle upwards. Fruit 
small, of four or more glabrous, wrinkled, obovate-cuneate cocci, £ inch long. 
The P. retusum is certainly only a variety of P. Billardieri growing in more open places. The Australian 
specimens have generally smaller flowers, but not constantly so. 
2. Phebalium montanum (Hook. Ic. PI. t. 59) ; fruticulus depressus glaberrimus, ramulis cica- 
tricatis foliosis, foliis carnoso-coriaceis teretibus superne canaliculatis obtusis grosse impresso-punctatis, 
floribus subsolitariis inter folia nidulantibus, calycis lobis brevissirnis. — Hook. Jo 
283.) 
Hab. Highest parts of the Western Mountains, Arthur's Lakes, etc., elev. 3500-4500 u | 
Gwm.—(¥L Dec.) 
A very sin<nilar species, quite unlike the former and following, forming a depressed shrub, that lies prostrate 
on the ground, and sends out straggling woody branches over stones, etc. — Branches 6-8 inches long, much 
divided, tuberculated with the scars of fallen leaves, terminal ones pubescent. Leaves crowded on the branches, 
|-| inch long, spreading, cylindrical, with a deep groove down the upper surface, blunt, covered with glandular 
