BY W. F. BLAKELY. 215 



r. V. M., E. Bancrofti Maiden, E. capitellata Sm., E. cinerea F. v. M., E. coryrn- 

 bosa Sm., E. crebra F.v.M., E. eugenioides Sieb., E. eximia Sebau., E. ficifolia 

 F. V. M., E. haemastoma Sm., E. haemastoma Sm. var. micrantha Bth., E. hemi- 

 phloia F. V. M., E. longifolia Link et Otto., E. melanophloia F. v. M., E. Muelleri 

 Naudin., E. notabilis Maiden, E. oehropHoia F. v. M., E. ovata Labill., E. pani- 

 ciclata Sm., E. Parramattensis Hall, E. pUularis Sm., E. piperita Sm., E. punC" 

 tata DC, E. radiata Sieber, E. resinifera Sm., E. saligna Sm., E. siderophloia 

 Benth., E. sideroxylon A. Cimn., E. Sieberiana F. v. M., E. squamosa Deane and 

 Maiden, E. tereticornis Sm., E. umbra R. T. Baker, E. viminaUs Labill., E. 

 Watsoniana F.v.M. Caprif oliaceae : Viburnum odoratissimum L. 



2. Pheygilanthus celastroides (Sieb.) Eiebl (Plate sxx.). 



Eichl., Fl. Bras., v., 1868, 48; Engl, and Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., iii., 

 179; Sieb. in Roam, and Sehult., Syst. Veg., vii., 1829, 163, as Loranthus celas- 

 troides; De Candolle, Prod. Syst. Veg., iv., 1830, 318; Bauer's drawings, Aust. 

 Plants, 145 ; A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes Expl. Exped., i., 1854, 740, t. 100 ; F. MueUer, 

 PI. Vie., Fig. on left hand side of Plate 30; Benth., B. FL, iii., 1866, 389; 

 Mueller, Key Vie. PL, Fig. on upper side of tab. 66, Part ii., vide also Part i., 

 1887-88, p. 273 (in part) ; Ewart, Weeds Vict., after p. 28, Fig. on left hand 

 side of plate; Bailey. Qland FL, v., 1377; Ettingshausen, Uber Die Blatts., Tab. 

 i.. Fig. 7-9. 



I have not seen the original description; those of De Candolle and Dr. A. 

 Gray, in the above works are much the same. I, however, give the latter pre- 

 ference, as he has gone to gTeat pains in drawing up a very clear description. 

 1 therefore quote him in full : 



"L. giaber; ramis teretibus; foUis oppositis obovato-oblongis sen eUipticis 

 basi attenuatis breviter petiolatis obtusissimis fere aveniis; pedunculis axillaribus 

 vel raiQulos breves bifoliatos desinentibus brevibus eymulifioris ; fioribus breviter 

 pediceUatis pentameris unibracteolatis ; antheris ovali-oblongis dorso-tisLs ver- 

 satUibus. 



"The specimens bear flowers, which have not before been described. The 

 plant is glabrous, except an extremely minute pubescence on the peduncles and 

 nascent parts. Branches terete, nodose. Leaves opposite, obovate, oblong, or 

 elliptical, with a narrowed base, contracted into a very short petiole, 1^ to 2 

 inches long, very obtuse, dull, thick and fleshy-coriaceous in texture, nearly rein- 

 less, even the midrib inconspicuous except towards the base. Peduncles axillary, 

 or more commonly terminating short and two-leaved^ axillary branchlets, 2 to 5 

 lines long, cymosely several-flowered. Flowers in threes, the lateral short- 

 pedicelled, the intermediate one sessile, or sometimes all pedicelled,* each sub- 

 tended by a small ovate bractlet, recurved, pentamerous. Ovary ovoid. Calyx- 

 tube short, coroniform, truncate, puberulent on the edge, which is entire or 

 obscurely denticulate, at length sometimes 4 — 5-toothed or lobed. Corolla ap- 

 parently red or purple, an inch and a quarter in length, curved in bud, and the 

 apex clavate-thickened ; the slender petals connivent into a tube, but separating 

 after anthesis. Filaments free down almost to the middle: anthers oval, or 

 short-oblong, emarginate at both ends, fixed by the middle, versatile. Style fili- 

 form, as long as the stamens: stigma minute, subcapitate. Fruit not seen." 



* I have not been able to confirm this statement. In the large amount of 

 material examined by me, the central flower is always sessile. 



