48 Some hitherto unknown Australian Plants. 



pedicels axillary, solitary or two or three together, 

 scarcely as long as the calyx ; lobes of the corolla 5, 

 rarely 4, half as long as the tube, above thin velvety; 

 faux bearded ; anthers ovate, almost sessile ; stigma 

 hemispherical ; berry red. 

 In scrubs on ridges along the rivers Dawson, Mackenzie, 

 and Brisbane. 



Shrub from 6-10 feet high. Leaves 1 to Z\ inches long, 

 their stalk 1^-3 lines long, above dark-green and shining, 

 beneath a little paler, finely veined. Stipules from a broad 

 base subulate, 1^-2 lines long, deciduous. Calyx at first 

 bell-shaped, scarcely longer than one line, with five acute and 

 very short teeth. Corolla funnel-shaped, outside glabrous 

 and yellowish ; its tube \ inch long ; its lobes ovate. An- 

 thers | line long. Style bristlelike, glabrous, not exserted. 

 Stigma slightly concave in the centre, half a line in diameter. 

 Berry naked, 3-4 lines long, upwards a little broader, with 

 two nuts. 



HoMALINEjE. 



Blackwellia brachybotrys. 



Leaves ovate or rhomboid, or round -ovate, tapering into a 

 short petiole, smooth, their margin repand; raceme 

 short, almost spicate; flowers small, slightly downy ; 

 tube of the calyx hemispherical ; its lobes 6-7, linear, 

 rather acute; petals but slightly or nearly half-exserted, 

 oblong-lanceolate; glands velvety; stamens 6-7; styles 

 4-6, below their apex slightly downy. 

 On granite rocks, near the origin of the Gilbert River — 

 rare. 



A small tree with spreading branches; branchlets grey, 

 brown, at last blackish, terete. Petioles 3-4 lines long, almost 

 terete; leaves thin- coriaceous, one-nerved, net-veined, opaque, 

 on both sides of equal color, 1-2 inches long. This species is 

 closely allied to Blackwellia axillaris (Lam. illustr. 412); it 

 differs principally in its short racemes, and in in the form of 

 the petals and calyx-lobes. Racemes terminal and lateral, 

 rarely longer than one inch, often shorter, on short peduncles, 

 with several or many flowers. Bracteoles at the base of each 

 pedicel ternate, brown, triangular, persistent; all, but parti- 

 cularly the lateral ones, very minute. Calyx 1 line long, its 

 lobes not touching each other with their margins in aestiva- 

 tion, at last spreading, as well as the ribless tube pale yellow 



