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desinentibus. Petala 5, fauce calycis inserta. Stamina 10 v. plurima. cum pdalis inserta, 13m ra. 'nat- 
rium 1-loculare. Ovula 2, e placenta basilar! ereota, anatropa. (kpt*U > WMtlti, ■bmtll ■ 
Folia sparsa; stipulis minutis. 
A veTy handsome and exclusively Australian genus, of which ibotri tiftv species arc known; of these thirt\ 
are south-western, and ten tropical. The long, delicate briftle, tenninating east lobe of the ea \ 
tinguishes it from its Tasmanian allies. It and the following belong to a peculiar Australian section of the Onh r 
{Chumalauciea), by some considered as a separate Order, in which the haves arc often alternate. - 
late, and the ovary is one-celled, with one or more erect ovules. (Name from ko\v$, the calyx, and $pt$ t a hair.) 
1. Calycothrix glabra (Br. in De Cand. Prodr. iii. 20b); foliis petiolatis lincaribus glahris mat- 
gineve ciliatis, staminibus 12-20.— Z/w//. Bot. Beg. L 409; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 586. < . Brown ft G 
Baueri, Schauer, M-, >■■;■•. Mini. Xeroc. i. 109. 
Var. a. glaherrima ; ramulis brevibus dense foliosis, foliis trigonis anguste lincaribus subacid is obtu- 
sisve superne (sicco) concavis non ciliatis. {Gunn, 13, 489, 490.) 
Var. /3. virgata; ramulis elongatis virgatis, foliis ut in var. a.— ('. nrgii 
t. 3323. 
Var. 7. ciliata ; ramulis brevibus fasciculatis pubesirntilms, foliis ilcn>c ci \ 
bus spinuloso-ciliatis. {Gunn, 806.) 
Hab. Rocky coasts, in a sandy soil, in several places.— \ ar. a. \\ <-t Head, lamar RireT, Bookj 
Cape, and South Esk River. Var. (3. Port Arthur. Var. 7. SateM* Hills and Bookj Oaf) . 
Oct.-Dec.) (r. r.) 
Distiub. South-eastern Australia. (Cultivated in Kngland.) 
etc., with generally slender, short l)ranchcs, covered with small, crowded, heath-like foliage, mid : 
flowers at the io V $.— Branches covered with a pale brown hark. Leaves ±-\ inch long, with two minute stipule- 
at the base of the short petiole ; narrow-linear, trigonous, variable in breadth, sharp or blunt ; mar- 
brous, or strongly ciliated with rigid hairs. lUmen rose-coloured, | inch across, sessile in the a\ - 
Calyx enveloped at the base in two equitant bracts its tube lengthened and lihforin. heanng five broad subscanous 
lobes, that are suddenly contracted to hair-like paints. PtUlt narrow -nbh-ni:. Am 
inclined to consider thai there are two species newide d •Mac m\ rar. a, om warn 1 
been found on the South Esk Rii ear ; the other with, ahefft, spreading braa ■«at»«w»- 
tinguishable m the dried state; var. ft with slender, twiggy branches, look- to me much man 
Brxncn* and Baueri to tt .,'" g«s ^ 
C4*/y* bibracteolatus, obconicus, supra ovarium non productus, liml 
Pdafa 5, parva, orbiculata. Stamina 5-10, omnia fertilia; filament 
globosis, e connectivo glaudula terminate pendulis. Ovarium l-bcol 
erecta collateralia. Stylus brevissimus. Op**** obconica, abortu monosperma. s 
orthotropus.-Frutices; foliis opposUU, eutqmlatii ; flonbus mUemlibus, azillaribm. 
A small genus of Southern Australian shrubs.-Zmre* small, opposite, emulate. JW, also small, ap- 
iary almost sessile Ca/yx with two small bracteol* at the base ; tube obconic ; limb of four, broad, subpetaloid 
