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NATURAL II I STORY OI< PLANTS. 



Australian. Actinodium is a Damvinia with tctramerous diploste- 

 monous flowers and stamens not accompanied by sterile tongues. 

 Homoranthus, on the contrary, has these tongues in the intervals of 



Danvinia (Genetijllis) macrostegia. 



Kg. 307. Flower (?). 



Fig. 306. Inflorescence. 



Fig. 308. Long. sect, 

 of flower. 



its ten fertile stamens, for its flower is pentamerous, and in other 

 respects it is quite that of a Darwinia ; but the sepals are attenuated 

 at the summit to a long subulate point, as we shall find those of 



Yfrticnrtlin JUt'f'iii . 



Fig. 309. Flower (j). 



Fig. 310. Long. sect, of flower. 



Calythrix are ; and this character, which otherwise would be of the 

 smallest importance, has been thought sufficient here to distinguish 

 this quite artificial genus. In Verticordia (fig. 309, 310), everything 



