THE TASMANIAN FLORA. 



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8, GREVILLEA. 



Perianth regular or nearly so, usually curved as maturing, the segments 

 cohering and dividing first on the convex side, through which the style protrudes, 

 the tips of the segments concave and separating last. Stamens without 

 filaments, the anthers being sessile in the concave tips of the perianth-lobes. 

 Ovary with usually a long filiform style, and bearing 2 ovules. Fruit an oblique, 

 leathery, or rarely woody, follicle. Seed- wing annular or none. 



A. very large genus, of diverse forms, nearly confined to Australia. Only one 

 species is found in Tasmania. 



G. AUSTEALis, M. Br. Usually an erect branched shrub and 2 or 3 feet high,, 

 but sometimes depressed and spreading. Leaves narrow-linear and pungent to 

 nearly oblonor, margin recurved to closely revolute, pubescent beneath, |-2 inches 

 long. Flowers in small terminal and axillary, rather dense, racemes. Perianth 

 about 2 lines lonjr, soon recurving and splitting along the upper side, the upper 

 ends of the segments not separating til I late. Style long, soon protruding from 

 the split perianth. Stigma discoid. Fruit ovate, nearly regular, tipped by the 

 style, leathery, about | inch long. 



Found in most districts throughout the Island ; also in Victoria and New South 

 Wales. Fl. Dec-March. 



9. HAKBA. 



Perianth curving before maturity and splitting on the convex side, the style 

 protruding. Stamens closely inserted into the concave tips of the perianth-lobes. 

 Ovary with a long filiform style, the stigma minute on a conical or discoid 

 expansion. 'Ovules 2. Fruit hard, woody, bivalved, usually turgid. Seeds 

 with a broad lateral wing. 



A large Australian genus, continuous with Orevillea. 



Leaves cylinderioal. 

 Flowers pubescent. 



Fruit dagger-shaped 1. H. pugioniformis. 



Fruit recurved at the base and incurved at the 



apex ... ... ... ■- ••■ ••■ 2. H.rostrata. 



Fruit recurved at the base ; apex short, straight 3. H. epiglottis. 

 Flowers glabrous. Fruit ovoid. 



Fruit nearly 1 inch long. Flower-stalks pubescent. 



Flowers about 1 line 4. If. nodosa. 



Flowers about 3 lines '. 5. H. acicularis. 



Fruit \ inch 6. H. microcarpa. 



Leaves flat, but very narrow ... ... ... ... 7. S. ulicina. 



1. H. PUGiONifOEMis, Gav. An erect much-branched shrub, 6-10 feet. Leaves 

 cylindrical, riyid, very pungent, 1-2 inches. Flowers in small, sessile, axillary 

 clusters. Perianth very pubescent, about 3 lines long, on a pubescent stalk of 

 about the same length. Fruit about 1 inch long, broad and nodulated near the 

 base, tapering to a long point. 



Found in numerous localities. Grass-tree Hill to George's Bay, &c. ; also 

 Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland. Fl. Oct.-Nov. 



2. H. KOSTKATA, F. V. M. Erect, branched, 2-4 feet. Leaves cylindrical, 

 rigid, pungent, 2-4 Inches. Flowers in sessile axillary clusters. Perianth 

 pubescent, 3 lines long. Fruit nearly 1 inch long, sigmoid, turgid. 



George's Bay; also South Australia and Victoria. Fl. Oct.-Dec. 



3. H. EPIGLOTTIS, Lab. Closely allied to H ro.ttrata, only the parts smaller. 

 Leaves mostly 1-2 inches. Capsule about ^-| inch long, sigmoid, but the apex 

 short and often not incurved. 



Very common. Fl. Oct.-Dec. 



