■28 THE TASMANIAN FLORA. 



Var. velutinum. Generally more robust in all details. Leaves about f 

 inch long, softly hairy on tbe upper surface. Flowers in compact 

 heads, about ^ incb diameter. Mt. Abrupt, near Hobart. 

 Var. gunnii. Still more robust. Leaves about 1 inch long. Flower- 

 heads ^-1 inch in diameter. Disk less prominent Cryptandra 

 gunnii, H. 

 4. S. LAWEENCii, B. Small, depressed shrub, with numerous rigid, wiry 

 branches. Leaves about 2 lines long, thick, obvate, with recurved margins. 

 Flowers in numerous small dense terminal heads. Calyx hardly 1 line long. 

 Cryftandra lamrencii, H. 



St. Paul's River, Great Swanport. Fl. Nov.-Dec. 



6. S. VExiLLiFEBDM, Reisseh. A small heath-like shrub, the- young shoots often 

 glutinous. Leaves linear to lanceolate, blunt, about ^ inch long, the margins 

 revolute, and, excepting the floral ones, smooth above and densely hairy beneath. 

 Flower-heads very compact, the flowers matted together by the dense develop- 

 ment of stellate hairs, about j inch in diameter, and containing ] or 2 ovate, 

 stalked floral leaves that are very white with stellate hairs on both sides, and 

 numerous brown bracts. Calyx hairy, scarcely 1 line long. Fruiting-calyx 2 

 lines long. Cryptandra vexillifera. Hook. 



In the north and west. Throughout Southern Australia. Fl. Dec. 



6. S. ERIOCEPHALDM, Fenzl. An erect, heath-like shrub. Leaves linear, rigid, 

 pointed, often pungent, from \-\ inch long, the margins closely revolute, and 

 concealing the under surface, the upper surface smooth. Flower-heads dense, about 

 J inch across ; the flowers matted together, and containing brown bracts, and 1 

 or 2 floral leaves similar to, but broader than, the stem leaves. Calyx scarcely 

 1 line long, hairy. Cryptandra eriocephala. Hook. 



Woolnorth, South Esk River, Schouten Island, Risdon, Bass Straits ; New 

 South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. Fl. Oot.-Dec. 



7. S. ULiCiNtiM, Benth. A tall, much-branched shrub, of 6 or more feet. 

 Leaves linear, acute, blunt, or shortly bifld, about | inch long, the margins revolute, 

 smooth above, hairy beneath. Flowers few together, closely sessile amongst 

 the last leaves of short lateral branches. Calyx about 2| lines long, silky 

 hairy, the free part of the tube short. Cryptandra ulicina, Hook. 



Derwent River above New Norfolk, Hamilton, Mount Wellington, near 

 Watchom's Hill, Mount Dromedary, &c, Fl. Sept.-Dec. 



3. STENANTHEMUM. 



Calyx-tube adherent at the base, free, slender, and often deciduous above the 

 ovary and disk, 6-lobed at the top. Petals 5, hood-shaped, enclosing the anthers, 

 and inserted with the stamens at the top of the calyx -tube. Disk scarcely 

 prominent, round the top of the ovary at the base of the calyx-tube. Ovary 

 entirely buried, 3-celled. Style entire, or minutely 3-toothed. 



The genus contains few species, and is conflned to Australian distribution. 

 Tasmania possesses but one species, which is endemic. 



8. PIMELEOIDBS, Benth. A small prostrate, much-branched shrub. Leaves 

 obovate to obcordate, about J inch long, the margins slighly recurved, mostly 

 smooth on the upper surface, white, with close hairs beneath. Flower-heads very 

 dense, ^-^ inch in diameter, with numerous brown bracts, and often 2 or 8 floral 

 leaves intermixed. Calyx 2 lines long, slender, hairy outside, after flowering, 

 oonstricted above the ovary, and often breaking off when the fruit ripens. 



Cryptandra pimeleoides, Hook. 



Swanport, Spring Bay. Very closely allied to, )S. leucophra ctum, &nd possibly 

 only a variety. Fl. Dec. 



