36 Australian Plants. 
Steudel. Hispid from starry hair; leaves petiolate, oblong, 
entire, blunt on the summit and rounded on the base; stipules 
large, foliaceous, oblique, ovate or half cordate; racemes 
lateral, simple, few-flowered; segments of the hypocalycine 
bracteola lanceolate; petals five or wanting; germen short- 
downy, pointed; style glabrous, as long as the anthers, which 
are at the top short-dehiscent ; capsule three-celled. 
On coast rocks of Wilson’s Promontory, on scrubby places 
of the Bugle Ranges, and on the Gawler and Murray River. 
The first species known from the eastern portion of Australia. 
9. Lasiopetalum Behrit. 
Leaves coriaceous, narrow-oblong, obtuse, above at length 
perfectly smooth, beneath covered with a velvety grey-brown 
toment; cyme few-flowered, about as long as the opposite 
leaf; basilar bracteole linear, the upper one tripartite and 
half as long as the calyx, with unilateral linear scarcely 
unequal segments; lacine of the calyx outside starry grey- 
hairy, inside smooth, ovate-lanceolate, acute; germen blunt, 
white velutinous. 
In the Mallee Scrub on the MurrayRiver and St. Vincent’s 
Gulf, where it was at first observed by Dr. H. Behr. 
10. Corethrostylis Schulzenii. 
Leaves thin, cordate, somewhat acute, above asperulous, 
beneath grey-green and thinly tomentose; cyme about as 
long as the opposite leaf; bracteoles linear-filifiorm, undivided, 
solitary, the upper one a little remote from the calyx, which 
is whitish, almost membraneous, marcescent and not spotted ; 
petals opposite to the filament, smooth or outward hairy; 
germen white from glandless velvet hair; style with excep- 
tion of the summit densely retro-pilose. 
In the Salt Flatt at Guichen Bay and on Mount Benson. 
Intermediate between C. membranacea and C. cordifolia from 
the western coast of Australia, to which part of the country 
the genus was formerly considered restricted. 
STACKHOUSIACE, 
ll. Zripterococcus spathulatus. 
Smooth, stems branched, ascendent; branches almost terete, 
streaked, foliate; leaves fleshy, oblong or obovate-spathulate ; 
