Phehdiuw.] XXIX. RUTACEiE. I93 



ing short terminal leafy corymbs or ovate panicles. Calyx very small. Petals 

 valvate, not 2 lines long. Stamens exserted ; filaments subulate, glabrous ; 

 anthers small. Ovary glabrous, on a raised almost stalk-lilie disk. Cocci 

 obliquely obovate, very minutely beaked, about 2 lines long. Seed dark brown, 

 shining. — Knostemon elatior, F. v. M. Fragm. i. 181. 



Hab.: Stanthorpe. 



The species is very closely allied to the New Zealand P. nudum, Hook., differing chiefly in 

 much smaller flowers, the calyx-lobes less prominent, the inflorescence not so flat-tonned, etc — 

 Benth. "'■ 



2. P. rotundifolium (leaves round), Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 341. An erect 

 much- branched shrub, the young branches minutely pubescent. Leaves crowded, 

 almost imbricate, small, obovate or orbicular, obtuse or minutely mucronate, 

 mostly 2 to 3 lines long, flat or concave, coriaceous, glabrous, very shortly 

 petiolate or almost sessile. Flowers several, in a terminal sessile umbel, almost 

 contracted into a head in our specimens, which are not fully out. Sepals small. 

 Petals valvate, glabrous. Filaments filiform, glabrous. Ovary glabrous, on a 

 very short disk, the terminal appendages of the carpels very short. — Eriostemon 

 i-otiindif alius, A. Cunn., Endl. in Hueg. Enum. 15. 



Hab.: Stanthorpe. 



3. P. glandulosum (plant glandular), Hook, hi Mitch. Trap. Austr. 199 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 342. Very closely allied to some of the smaller much- 

 branched forms of P. squamulosum, with the same scurfy indumentum, 

 inflorescence, and flowers, and recently united with that species by F. v. Mueller. 

 (PL Vict. i. 130). It appears however to me to differ sufficiently in the leaves, 

 which are narrowly linear-euneate, emarginate or almost 2-lobed at the end, with 

 revolute or recurved margins varying from 2 or 3 lines to fin. in length. In the 

 ordinary form also the branches and leaves are covered with large glandular 

 tubercles. — P. sediflonim, F. v. M. in Trans. Vict. Inst. i. 30 ; Eriostemon 

 sediflorm, F. v. M. Fragm. i. 102. 



Hab.: On the Upper Maranoa, Mitchell; southern coast lands. 



4. P. squamulosum (scaly), Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 102 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 

 342. An erect shrub, varying in height, but never arborescent, the young 

 branches brown with scurfy scales. Leaves shortly petiolate, oblong or linear, 

 obtuse but often muoronulate, | to l^^in. long, somewhat coriaceous, the margins 

 flat or slightly recurved, smooth above or slightly glaijdular-tuberculate, covered 

 underneath with scurfy peltate scales. Flowers yellow, in terminal sessile, 

 simple or compound umbels or corymbs, not exceeding the last leaves, the 

 pedicels, calyx, and petals covered with comparatively large scurfy scales. Calyx 

 very short, truncate, with minute or short and broad teeth. Petals barely 2 lines 

 long, slightly imbricate with inflexed valvate tips. Stamens exserted (1 or 2 

 occasionally wanting) ; filaments glabrous ; anthers tipped by a small gland. 

 Ovary densely covered with white or brown scurfy eiliate scales. Cocci small, 

 broad, obscurely beaked. Seeds scarcely shining. — DC. Prod. i. 720 ; A. Juss. in 

 Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. ii. 132 ; P. elaagnifolium, A. Juss. I.e. 132, t. 11 ; 

 P. aureum, A. Cunn. in Field, N. S. Wales, 331, with a figure (the specimens not 

 so stunted as represented in the plate) ; Eriostemon lepidotus, Spreng. Syst. ii. 

 322 ; F. V. M. Fragm. i. 104, and PL Vict. i. 130. 



Hab.: Stanthorpe, Main Eange, Peak Downs, Eockhampton, etc. 



6. P. STottii (after Dr. Nott), F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 22. A shrub of about 

 10ft. in height, branches scaly. Leaves for the most part between f and IJin. 

 long, and 2 to 3 lines broad, cuneate or ovate-oblong ; obtuse, retuse, flat, a little 

 repand ; densely scaly on the under, and minutely scabrous on the upper side, 

 on conspicuous petioles. Flowers lepidote, at the end of the branchlets, solitary or 



