New Alpine Plants. 99 
DIOSMEAE. 
4. Phebalium ovatifolium. 
Leaves coriaceous, ovate, above smooth and shining, be- 
neath lepidote, their margin recurved; peduncles axillary, 
solitary, with a single flower and three or four bracts, com- 
pressed, twice or three times shorter than the leaves; teeths 
of the calyx triangular-lanceolate, glabrous ; petals lanceolate- 
ovate, whitish, little longer than the stamens; anthers affixed 
with their back ; filaments glabrous ; stigma capitellate, club- 
shaped; carpels apiculate. 
In the rocky or scrubby parts of the Australian Alps, at 
the sources of the Murray and Snowy River. 
That the genera eriostemon and phebalium are not strictly 
defined by clear and natural characters has been observed 
previously in other instances. This handsome species again 
may be referred to either of the two genera, which I would 
propose to unite. 
5 Eriostemon trachyphyllus. 
Tall, smooth, covered with glandular warts; leaves herba- 
ceous, flat, entire, oblong-lanceolate, pointed, sessile, on both 
sides green, above shining; pedicels axillary, solitary, shorter 
than the leaves ; segments of the calyx subdeltoid, glabrous ; 
filaments fringed; style smooth; stigma five-cleft; carpels 
blunt ; seeds shining, black, grey-variegate. 
On the mountains at the Snowy River, near the Pinch 
Range, on rocks. 
A fine plant, as well allied to E. myoporoides as to E. 
intermedius. 
I beg to subjoin another rare plant of the order, although 
not alpine. 
6. Eriostemon microphyllus. 
Dwarf; branches asperous; branchlets thinly covered with 
starry downs; leaves coriaceous, crowded, much spreading, 
ovate- or cordate-orbicular, scabrous, with recurved apex, on 
short petioles; flowers several together terminal, glandulose; 
segments of the calyx triangular-ovate, nearly smooth; fila- 
ments as long as the corolla, glabrous, gradually tapering into 
the apex; appendage of the anthers exceedingly small; style 
glabrous. 
