64 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Rutacea. 
dots. Flowers small, white, solitary, nestling amongst the leaves. Ovaries 4-6 ; ovules 2, superimposed, both 
ascending.— In more favourable localities than this species has hitherto been found in, it may be expected to have 
more flattened leaves, as the depth and breadth of the groove on the upper surface varies much. 
3. Phebalium? truncatum (Hook.fil); fruticosum, glaberrimum, ramulis pedunculisque puberulis, 
foliis brevissime petiolatis obcuneato-oblongis truncatis retusis grosse irregulariter spinoso-dentatis subtus 
glanduloso-punctatis, floribus ad apices ramulorum subcorymbosis, calyce brevissimo 4-lobo, petalis lanceo- 
latis valvatis apicibus incurvis, staminibus 8, antheris didymis, filamentis alternis longioribus superne sub- 
incrassatis apice subulatis in cucullo antherse insertis, ovario profunde 2-lobo 2-loculari, loculis 2-ovulatis, 
ovulis collateraliter suspensis ascendentibus. {Gunn, 1947.) (Tab. IX.) 
Hab. Flinders' Island, in Bass' Straits, and Schouten Island, East Coast, Gunn.— (El. Oct. Nov.) 
This is a very remarkable plant, differing in several points from Phebalium ; but not being in fruit, I am un- 
willing to establish a new genus of it.— A small bush. Stems, and especially branches, covered with reddish bark, 
minutely puberulous towards the tips with simple or stellate hairs. Leaves scattered, i-f inch long, coriaceous, 
oblong, but rounded at the base and truncate or emarginate at the apex, coarsely toothed, coriaceous, paler and 
dotted beneath. Flowers small, whitish, in small terminal erect cymes, hidden amongst the leaves. Peduncles and 
pedicels with silky pubescence. Calyx minute, four-toothed. Petals lanceolate, concave, valvate, with incurved 
tips, one-nerved. Stamens four, alternate ones shorter ; filaments glabrous, filiform, rather thickened about the 
middle, apex subulate. Anthers shortly-oblong, with an arched protuberance over the apex of the filaments. 
Pollen globose. Ovary deeply two-lobed; lobes erect, with a few hairs at the tips, two-ceUed ; cells with two col- 
lateral ovules adnate a little above the middle by broad bases. Style straight, erect, subulate. Stigma simple, 
minute. Carpels immature, one only ripening, oblong, with a rather narrowed recurved tip.— Plate IX. Fig. 1, 
2, hairs from under surface of leaves; 3, flower; 4, the same opened; 5, stamens; 6, pollen; 7, ovarium; 8, ver- 
tical section of ovarium; 9, immature fruit; 10, the same magnified; 11, immature seed: — all out fig. 9 magnified. 
Gen. III. ERIOSTEMON, 8m. 
Omnia Fhebalii, sed floribus tetrameris v. pentameris, staminibus plerumque petalis brevioribus, fila- 
mentis ssepissime villosis pilosisve, antherisque apice appendiculatis. 
This, so far as its diagnostic characters are concerned, appears to be quite an artificial genus, the three points 
by which it is distinguished from Phebalium being trifling, and none of them absolute. These are — the stamens 
being generally shorter than the petals, the filaments being pilose, bearded, or villous, and the anthers having the 
connective produced beyond the cells into a small point. "When taken together, however, these group a large 
number of plants, all different-looking from Phebalium, and they may therefore serve to establish the genus. About 
thirty species are known, all but one natives of extratropical Australia, chiefly of the West Coast. (Name from 
fpiov, wool, and arrifuov, a stamen.) 
1. Eriostemon verrucosum (A. Rich. Sert. Astrol. t. 26) ; grosse glanduloso-tuberculata, ramis 
virgatis, foliis coriaceo-carnosis obcordatis, filamentis planis ciliatis apice subulatis, antheris apiculatis. — 
Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. 417. E. obcordatum, Hook. Journ. Bot. i. 254, Jc. PI t. 60. {Gunn, 14.) 
Hab. Common in sandy and gravelly soil throughout the Island, Cunningham, etc. — (El. Oct. Nov.) (v. v.) 
A small, heathy shrub, 2 feet high, covered with granular tubercles, each full of essential oil, and with a de- 
pression at the summit.— Stems and branches greeu. Leaves i-| inch long, very thick and somewhat fleshy, obcor- 
date, glandular on both surfaces. Flowers numerous, solitary, axillary, i inch across, pink, rarely white. Pedicels 
much shorter than the leaves. Calyx-lobes very small, rounded. Petals five, obovate-oblong. Stamens alternately 
shorter ; filaments dilated, flat, ciliated or pilose, subulate at the tips. Anthers ovate, subcordate, with short apiculi. 
i (A. Cunn. MSS. Hook. fil. Journ. Bot. ii. 417) ; ramis ramulisque glan- 
