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dered with its abundant white flowers, smelling like Hawthorn.— Branch-* tomentose, tui__. 
ing. Leaves crowded on short lateral branches, \-\ inch long, linear, very narrow, Mm i 
towards the extremity, and there reti.se, bifid or fori- . _r.rn, an.l channelled down the middle, 
margins revolute ; under surface covered with white wool. Flowen two to OX, in -mall eapitula, rarely solitan (large 
for the genus), i inch long, surrounded with brown scarious imbricating bracts. Calyx sUky, its till 
what produced above the ovary; limb spreading. Petals spathulate, ,',, a then included 
in the petals. Style rather slender, granular on the surface. Fruit unknown.— In young specimen* both surface? 
of the leaves are covered with white pubescence. 
inii (Hook, til.) ; frutex, ramulis tomentosis, stipulis magnis ovatis carina pa. 
bescente, foliis coriaceis petiolatis ovato- v. elliptico-oblongis obtusis emarginatisve snpra glabris impreno- 
venosis subtus albo- v. rufo-tomentosis marginibus subrecurvis, capitulis terminalibus laxiusculis foliis 2-3 
albis stipatis, bracteis paucis flores vix involucrantibus, calycc tomentoso villoso late obconico, 
coccis calyce subcrustaceo tectis late ovatis crustaceis puberulis. (Gunn, 1948.) (Tab. XI.) 
Hab. Banks of the Franklin River, near Macqoarrie Harbour, Gunn.—{Yl Feb.) 
A tall bu 1 S-8 feet h J —Branches rather stout, terete, dental] ton 
the leaves, | inch long, ovate or obliquely ovate, lanceolate, scarious, brown, with a si 
produced into an acuminate apex. Petioles tomentose, as long as or longer than 
inch long, ovate-oblong, rounded at both ends, blunt or emarginate at the apex, glabrous above, with imposed 
veins, densely tomentose below, margins -Subtly recurved. Cyme* terminal, aggregate il .; ■ 
capitula, the branches of which are evident amongst the flowers, densely tomentoee, isd 
tomentose leaves. Flowers small; bracts ovate-acuminate, with midribs like the- Btipal 
obconical, villous. Petal* cucullate, clawed. Stamens included in the ,, iuls. Disc very tliiek. B 
short, entire. Fruit woolly, obovoid, | inch long. Cocci aruetaceoua of coriaceous, compressed, whitish, broadly 
ovate, keeled down the front, enclosed in the somewhat crustaceoua calyx.— Plate XI. Fig. 1, floral leaf and two 
stipules ; 2, flower ; 3, vertical section of flower, showing the ovules ; 4, petal and stamen ; 5, pollen ; 6, ovules , 
7, ripe fruit ; 8, transverse section of the same ; 9, the same with part of the calyx removed ; 10, cocci ; 11, ver- 
tical section of ditto, showing the seed ; 12, section of seed, showing the albumen ; 13, section of albumen, show- 
ing the embryo: — all magnified. 
7. Cryptandra mollis (Hook, fil.) ; fruticulus erectus molliter velutino-tomentosus, ramis dense 
villoso-tomentosis, foliis breve petiolatis late obovato-oblongis coriaceis obtusis emarginatisve superne mol- 
liter velutino-tomentosis inter nervos laterales parallelos bullatis marginibus recurvis subundulatis subtus 
molliter lanuginosis, cymis terminalibus congestis foliis albidis subtensis ramulis tomentosis, bracteolis 
paucis acutis, floribus parvis, calycibus densissime villosis, coccis late oblongis compressis. {Gunn, 1919.) 
Hab. Flinders' Island and Cape Barren Island, in Bass' Straits, Gunn.—(Fl Oct.) 
Distrib. Mount Lofty, South Australia. 
This appears to be a very small erect bush, 6-18 inches high, with deader, twiggy, rather tortuous branches ; 
branchlets covered densely with somewhat floccose tomentum. Stipules subulate, b 
grey-green, £-£ inch long, on short petioles, broadly ovate-oblong or obovate-oblong, rounded at b 
or retuse at the apex, margins somewhat recurved ; upper surface with a deep central groove, and m i 
lateral ones, between which the surface is convex, densely and .-oftly velvety : under surface <•.«,,;, 
nent nerves, densely covered with soft whitish tomentum. Cynics com:, sted into branched depressed terminal ca- 
pitula, subtended by several 
short. Petals cucullate, enclosing the anthers. Style short, erect, undivided. Coed broadly ovate, dorsally com- 
pressed, pilose towards the apex, with a mesial ridge in front, apparently indehiscent. 
3. Cryptandra? parvifolia (Hook, fil.) ; fruticulus, ramulis gracilibus tomentosis, foliis parvis 
