184 XXIX. RUTAOEiE. [Zieria. 



Flowers small, solitary and nearly sessile or 2 or 3 together on short pedicels. 

 Calyx hirsute, with linear- subulate or narrow-lanceolate lobes, nearly as long as 

 the petals and always much narrower than in any other species. Anthers 

 minutely apiculate. Cocci hirsute, broader than in most species. — DC. Prod. i. 

 723 ; Z. ■paudjiora, Sm. in Eees. Cycl. xxxix.; DC. I.e.; Z. Idrsuta, DC. I.e.; 

 Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. t. 50 ; Boronia hirsuta, F. v. M. Fragm. i. 101. 



Hab.: Herberton, Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, and J. F. Bctiley a form of the above species. 



4. Z. obcordata (form of leaflets), A. Cunn. in Field, N. S. Wales, 330 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 305. A shrub of low growth, with elongated diffuse branches, 

 teiete and softly hirsute. Leaflets 3, with a very short common petiole, obovate 

 or obcordate, 2 to 4 lines or rEirely ^in. long, softly pubeSdent or tomentose aboVe, 

 more hirsute or velvety and whitish underneath, the margins recurved or 

 revolute. Flowers 1 to 3 in the axils, very small, on short slender pedicels, 

 the petals not above 1 line and the calyx about half as long with broad and 

 obtuse segments. Anthers not apiculate. Cocci small, glabrous. — Boronia 

 minutiflora, F. v. M. Fragm. i. 100. 



Hab.: Glasshouse Mountains. 



5. Z. cytisoides (resembling a Cytisus), Sm.; DC. Prod. i. 723 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Aimtr. i. 306. A much-branched shrub, hoary all over with a soft close or more 

 or less velvety tomentum. Leaflets 3, with a common petiole of 1 to 3 lines, 

 obovate-oblong, about ^ or rarely fin. long, obtuse or minutely pointed, the 

 margins revolute, narrowed at the base. Cymes dense but few-flowered, rarely 

 much exceeding the leaves. Bracts leafy, as long as the pedicels or often nearly 

 as long as the flowers. Calyx rather short, with broad acute segments. Petals 

 rarely twice as Ibng, much imbricate in the bud. Anthers not apiculate. 



Hab.: Sbutliern localities inland. 



6. Z. Smithii (after Sir James Smith, founder of the Linnean Society), 

 Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 606 (1810) ; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 306. A tall shrub or small 

 ti'ee, glabrous or slightly pubescent with a very minute usually stellate down, the 

 branches terete or compressed, occasionally covered with glandular tubercles. 

 Leaflets 3, with a distinct common petiole, lanceolate or the larger ones oblong, 

 elliptical, acute or rarely obtuse, 1 to 2in. long in the original form, flat or the 

 margins slightly recurved. Flowers usually about 3 lines diameter, in axillary 

 2 — 3-chotomous cymes, shorter than the leaves. Calyx-lobes broad and short. 

 Petals fully 3 times as long as the calyx, tomentose outside. Anthers obtuse, not 

 apiculate. Cocci about 2 'lines long, glabrous, usually glandtilar-tuberculatte. 

 Seeds shining, finely reticulate-striate. — Bot. Mag. t. 1395 ; Bonpl. .Jard. Malm. 

 62, t. 24 ; Z. lanceolcita, R. Br.; DO. Prod. i. 723 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 65 ; 

 Boronia nrborescens, F. v. M. Fragm. i. 100, and PI. Vict. i. 111. 



Hab.: Brisbane Eiver, A. Cunninglmm ; Stradbroke Island, Fraser. 



Var. parvifoUa. Leaflets rarely exceeding lin.; cymes often as long. — Sandy Bay and Cape 

 Hervey, B. BrmBn; New England, Stuart. 



Var. macrophylla. More arborescent; leaflets often 3in. long; flowers larger than in the 

 ordinary form ; seeds broader and less reticulate. — Z. arborescens, Sims ; Hook. Journ. Bot. i. 

 256 ; Z. macrophylla, Bonpl.; Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. t. 48 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4451. To this variety 

 belong the Tasmanian and many of the Victorian specimens. 



The stamens in this and other Zierias are figured in Delessert's " loones," by some mistake, as 

 attached inside instead of outside the glands or lobes of the disk. The name of Z. kmceolata 

 was adopted by Smith (in Eees' Cyol. xxxix.), on the consideration that the synonym quoted in- 

 the Bot. Mag. was a sufficient publication ; Andrews' name, had, however, been published a year 

 previous to the plate in Bot. Mag. — Benth. 



7. Z. granulata (granulated), C. Moore in Herb. Hook. ; Benth. Fl. Aiistr. i. 

 307. A tall shrub or small tree, glabrous or very minutely pubescent, and 

 densely covered with glandular tubercles as in some varieties of Z. Smithii, with 



