194 XXIX. EUTACE^. [Phebalium. 



in twos or threes on short pedicels of f rom 1 to 3 lines. Bracts linear-canaliculate, 

 caducous. Calyx almost campanulate, about 2|^ lines long, 6 or 7-cleft. 

 Petals 6 or 7, lanceolate, 3 or 4 lines long, pale purple inside. Stamens 12 to 14. 

 Anthers oblong, scarcely 1 line long. Style long as the stamens, and like the 

 filaments glabrous, stigma small, peltate. Ovary densely lepidote, 6 or 7-merous. 

 Cocci rhomboid-ovate, 2 lines long. 

 Hab.: Queensland, F. v. M. 



6. p. Billardiere (after Dr. J. J. Labillardiere), A. Jiiss.: Benth. Fl. Amtr. 

 i. 344. An erect shrub or small tree, the branches angular and clothed with 

 small broVn scurfy scales. Leaves oblong, lanceolate or linear, obtuse or acute, 

 rarely under fin. and often Bin. long, or in very luxuriant specimens 4 or 5in. 

 long, entire, coriaceous, flat or with recurved margins, glabrous above, silvery- 

 white underneath with minute scales. Flowers in axillary corymbs, shortly 

 pedunculate, but always shorter than the leaves ; peduncles and pedicels thick 

 and scaly. Calyx small, lobed. Petals about 2 lines long, glabrous, slightly 

 imbricate, with inflexed valvate tips. Stamens exserted ; filaments often hairy 

 in the lower portion. Ovary glabrous. Cocci small, broad, with a very short 

 beak. Seeds shining. — Eriostemon sqiiamms, Labill. PI. Nov. Holl. iii. t. 141 ; P. 

 retusum, Hook. Journ. Bot. i. 254, and Ic. PI. t. 57 ; P. elatum, A. Cunn. in 

 Fields N. S. Wales 331 ; P. elceagnoides, Sieb. PI. Exs. 

 Hab.: Fraser's Island, H. Trijon. 



6. PHILOTHECA, Eudge. 



(Eeferring to the tube formed by the lower part of the stamens.) 



Calypc 5-cleft. Petals 6, imbricate in the bud. Disk slightly lobed. Stamens 

 10, shorter than the petals ; filaments united into a glabrous tube at the base, 

 free upwards, and very hairy ; anthers oblong, all perfect, minutely apiculate. 

 Carpels 5, nearly distinct from the base ; styles inserted below the middle, and 

 immediately united in a single style, hirsute in the middle ; stigma small. Ovules 

 2 in each carpel, superposed. Cocci truncate, 2-valved, the endoearp cartilagi- 

 nous and separating elastically. — Erect, heath-like shrubs, glabrous or nearly so. 

 Leaves crowded, alternate, narrow-linear. Flowers terminal, nearly sessile, 

 solitary, or 2 or 3 together. 



A genus entirely Australian, differing from Eriostemon only in the monadelphous stamens. — 

 Benth. 



Leaves obtuse, mostly under 3 lines long 1. P. australis. 



Leaves 3-angled, semi-terete, acute, 4 to 7 lines long 2. P. calida. 



1. P. australis (Australian), Rudge, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xi. 298, t. 21 ; 

 Benth. FL Amtr. i. 348. Glabrous or sprinkled with a minute pubescence. 

 Leaves numerous, linear, obtuse, rarely exceeding 3 lines, rather thick, flat or 

 channelled above, very convex underneath, or almost terete. Flowers usually 

 solitary, but sometimes 2 or 3 together. Sepals small, broadly triangular. 

 Petals 3 or 4 lines long, broadly lanceolate, minutely hoary-pubescent on both 

 sides, except a broad glabrous central line outside. Stamens rather shorter than 

 the petals. Cocci shortly beaked. — Eriostemon salsolifolius, Sm. in Rees, 

 Cycl. xiii. 



Hab.: Near Mount Faraday, Mitchell. 



Y&r. parviflmra. Leaves more oiliate. Flowers much smaller; the petals scarcely 2i lines 

 jong.— P. ciliata, Hook, in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 347. 



2. P. calida (the most northern species), F. v. M. Fracpn. vii. 21 and 38. 

 Branches and foliage glabrous. Leaves trigono-semiterete, acute, crowded, 4 to 

 7 lines long, and about f line thick. Sepals oval, imbricate, 2 lines long, yellow, 



