Hihh,;ti,i.] II. DILLENIACE^. 15 



bracts. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, or the outer ones scarcely acute, 3 or 

 even 4 lines long, with rather silky hairs outside. Petals obovate, deeply emar- 

 ginate. Stamens above 30, with several short filiform or clavate staminodia 

 outside. Carpels 3, villous, 6-ovulate. The general aspect is sometimes that of 

 H. serpyllifolia, but it is readily known by the stamens. 



Hab. : Open forest land near Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham; Stradbroke Island, Fraser ; 

 Glasshouse mountains, F. Mueller ; swamps towards Durval, Leichhardt. 



Var. thymifolia. Leaves shorter, often recurved at the end. — Near Moreton Bay, A. 

 Cunningham. 



13. H. fasciculata (fascicled), R. Br. in DC. Syst. Vey. i. 428 ; Benth. Fl, 

 Austr. i. 33. Stems erect, procumbent or prostrate. Leaves very narrow- linear, 

 clustered and crowded, 2 to 3 lines or rarely Jin. long, hirsute with soft rather 

 spreading hairs, or at length glabrous, obtuse, or scarcely pointed, the margins 

 never revolute or recurved, but rather turned upwards so as to leave the under 

 surface convex with the prominent midrib. Flowers sessile, on very short leafy 

 shoots along the branches, with 2 or 8 small sepal-like bracts at their base. 

 Sepals 2 to 3 lines long, broadly ovate, membranous at the edge, the outer ones 

 narrower and less obtuse. Petals obcordate. Stamens usually 8 to 12, without 

 staminodia. Carpels usually 3, glabrous, with two erect ovules in each. — Hook, 

 f. Fl. Tasm. i. 13 ; H. amjmtifolia (partly), F. Muell. PI. Vict. i. 18 ; H. virgata, 

 Hook. Ic. PI. t. 267, not E. Br. ; H. prostrata, Hook. Journ. Bot. i. 246 ; 

 Pleurandra camforosma, Sieb. in Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 191 ; H. camphor osma, 

 A. Gray Bot. Amer. Expl. Exped. i. 21. 



Hab. : Southern parts of the colony. 



14. H. virgata (twiggy), R. Br. in DC. Syst. Veg. i. 428 ; Benth. 1<1. Austr. i. 

 34. Diffuse or erect, glabrous, with numerous thin but stiff and often wiry 

 branches. Leaves narrow-linear, obtuse or scarcely acute, mostly about I'in. long, 

 but sometimes much longer, stiff and rather thick, the margins not revolute, and 

 sometimes almost terete. Flowers sessile, surrounded by 2 or 3 very broad 

 scarious pale brown bracts fully half as long as the calyx. Sepals about 4 lines 

 long, obtuse or more frequently acute, or with a short sharp point, glabrous and 

 more scarious than in any other species. Petals broadly obovate, scarcely emar- 

 ginate. Stamens 10 to 15, without staminodia. Carpels 8, glabrous, 2-ovulate. 

 — Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 14 ; H. angustifolia, var., F. Muell. PI. Vict. i. 19. 



Hab.: Southern parts of the colony. 



15. H. linearis (leaves linear), R. Br. in DC. Sijst. Veg. i. 428 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. i. 36. Much branched, erect or divaricate, or rarely decumbent, glabrous 

 in all its parts, or with a very minute pubescence on the young shoots. Leaves 

 in the normal forms linear, rather acute or obtuse, with a short recurved point, 4 

 to 8 lines long, or nearly lin. when luxuriant, the margins flat or slightly 

 recurved, and not convex underneath. Flowers on very short peduncles, and 

 usually surrounded by rather longer floral leaves, with small acuminate brown 

 "bracts at the base of the peduncle, and one or two at the summit passing into 



the sepals. Sepals all or the inner ones only obtuse, glabrous with thin margins, 

 2J to 3 lines long. ' Petals obovate, scarcely notched. Stamens 15 to 20, without 

 staminodia. Carpels usually 3, rarely 2 or 1, glabrous, 2-ovulate. 



Hab. : Moreton Island, M'Gillivray, F. Mueller. 



Var. floribunda. Sepals more acute and rather hairy. Stamens more numerous. Peel's 



Island, A. Cunningham. 



Var. ? obtusifolia. More rigid than the normal form, more frequently erect, and more or less 

 hairy, with a minute crisped or shortly stellate tomentum, sometimes densely and softly pubes- 

 cent, and very rarely glabrous. Leaves from linear to broadly oblong spathulate, very obtuse or 

 truncate, in some southern specimens above IJin. long, and mostly narrowed into a short petiole. 

 Flowers rather larger than in the normal variety, with numerous stamens. — H. obtusifolia, DC. 

 Syst. Veg. i. 429 ; H. canescens, Sieb. in Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 21X. 



