Rhamnea.'] FLORA of Tasmania. 
Hab. North Esk Kiver, eight miles above Launceston, Lawrena, Owtmj Bagdad, M 
(Fl. Oct.) 
Distrib. Xew South Wale?. 
A small, wiry, scrubby shrub, 6 inches to a foot hiiih, sparingly leafy. — Uranclns woody, Lilrr.il 
rigid, often becoming spinous at the tips. Leaves -\-^ inch long, Mattered, Bnear-oblong or linear-obovate, blunt, 
glabrous on both sides, margins flat or recurved. Flam ft solitary, scatter* -1. on abort curved tomi 
surrounded at the base by short orbicular glabrous brown imbricating bracta, oof one-quarter the length of the calyx. 
Calyx broadly campanulate, suddenly contracted at the very baae within the bracta, \ inch long, denaely pubescent 
exteniallj. Petals obo\ te-spathulat claw, d V,y ,-ns included in th< \< .1- / nils adnate to the calyx, and 
forming prominent ridges on its inner surface. Ovary broad, abort, almost wholly superior, densely villous with 
white spreading hairs. Style erect, rather long, granular. Fruit J inch long, obovoid, surrounded with the per- 
sistent indehiscent calyx, which is adnate for one-quarter of the length of the fruit. Cocci coriaceous, pubescent, 
dehiscing along the ventral suture. Seed with a broad fleshy three- or four-lobed arillus. 
11. Cryptandra alpina (Hook, fil.) ; fruticulu- hmnilis d» prcssus ramosus, ramulis titiuibus, foliis 
minimis sparsis petiolatis lineari-oblongis acutis obtuse trigonis, floribus terminalibus solitariis subscssilibus, 
bracteis late orbiculatis calycis a longitudine BequantibojB imbricatis, oalyoe late campanuJato bad lobato 
tomentoso, ovario i-infero dense tomentoso, coccis 3 sutura ventrali 
tectis. ((?«»», 716.) (Tab. XII. A.) 
Hab. Summit of the Western Mountains, elev. 3S00 feet, Gunn.— (Fl. Feb.) 
A remarkable little species, closely related to the preceding, but very distinct. Remarkable for its small nse, 
prostrate habit, slender puberulous branchiate, and minute leave*; the latter are t\r\ inch bug, trigonous, linear- 
oblong, acuminate or acute, green, quite glabrous. Flowers and fruit quit, similar to those of the C. Sieberi, 
but the bracts are considerably larger and acute or imicrouatc— I'i.atk XII. ./. Fig. 1, leaves; 2, flower; 3, tin- 
same with the bracts removed; 4, vertical section of ditto: .">, petal and stamen; (',. vertical -ection of ovary — 
all magnified. 
§ III. Stexocodon, H.f. — Flares glomerati. Calycis tubus longe tubuloso-infundibuHformis, basi supra ovarium 
(Hook, fil.) ; fruticulus prostratus, ramulis <?r 
bus, stipulis subulatis, foliis petiolatis obovatis v. obovato-obcordatis supra glabris subtus albo-tomentosis, 
capitulis densifloris foliis obcordatis 1-2 albis sn sis obovatis extends aristatis, calycis 
tubo elongato membranaceo sericeo-villoso, petalis unguiculatis, antherarum loculis inferne divarkatis, 
filamento piano, coccis bivalvibus. {Gunn, 1041.) (Tab. XII. B.) 
Hab. East coast, Kelvedon, at Great Swan Port, Backhouse. Spring Bay, Omm . (FL Dec. 
This will probably prove a new genus, for which I have proposed I 
and kg>W, a bell; in allusion to the slender perianth. — A prostrate, small, woody, much branched plant. Branch* 
short, pubescent. Stipules with small broad scarious bases, ami long subulate apices. Leaves -J-| inch long, 
petiolate, obovate or obcordate, glabrous above, white with 
flowered, terminal, -|~|- inch across, depressed, subtended by on 
both surfaces. Bracts numerous, variable in size and shape; outer broader, with long apices; inner obovate. 
blunt. Flowers | inch long, with long slender tubular membi small inferior 
ovary, very silky externally. Ovary obovoid, much contracted at the base. !'• talt clawed, situated at the mouth of 
the calyx far above the ovary. Filaments flat, short, incurved at the apex ; anthers of two cells, which are narrowed 
and divergent below. Style long, slender. Cocci bivalvular, erustaceous. Seeds not seen.— Plate XII. B. Fig. 1, 
bud and bract; 2, flower; 3, the same laid open; 4, petal; 5 and 6, stamens; 7, transverse, and 8, vertical, sec- 
tion of ovary -.—all magnified. 
