274 XXXVIII. RHAMNB.E. [Ponmdmris. 



Petals nearly of P. dliptica, but usually narrower. Styles more deeply deft, the 

 branches club-shaped at the top, with somewhat decurrent stigmas. Capsule of 

 P. elliptica. — P. andromedafolia, A. Cunn. in Field N.S. Wales, 351 ; Bot, Mag. 

 t. 3219 ; P. phillyremfolia, Fenzl, in Hueg. Enum. 22 (from the character given), 

 Benth. ' ,' ' 



Hab.: Between Stanthorpe and the border. 



Var. nitidula. Leaves more coriaceous, usually acute ; tomentum closer, very white on the 

 under side of the leaves. Stanthorpe ; Mount Lindsay, >r.- iiKZ^. 



5. P. prunifolia (Plum-leaved), A. Cunn.; Fenzl, in Htieg. Enum. 22; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 430. Stellate tomentum of the branches and under side of 

 the leaves dense and white, or sometimes ferruginous. Leaves ovate or oblong, 

 obtuse or mucronate, seldom above l^in. long, wrinkled, and often scabrous 

 above, with short simple or stellate hairs. Flowers small and numerous, in many- 

 flowered compact cymes, arranged in thyrsoid terminal panicles as in P. ligustrina. 

 Calyx obovoid, about 1 line long, the tube turbinate, the stellate tomentum 

 usually concealed by long silky hairs. Petals none. Styles cleft nearly to the 

 base. Capsule about 1 line diameter, hirsute, obtuse, only slightly protruding 

 from the adnate tube of the calyx. — F. v. M. Fragm. iii. 75. 



Hab.: Between Stanthorpe and the border. 



9. STENANTHEMUM, Reissek. 



(Flowers slender.) 



Flowers sessile in heads, surrounded by small, persistent, imbricate brown 

 bracts. Calyx-tube adherent at the base, free, slender, and often deciduous above 

 the ovary and disk, 5-lobed at the top. Petals 5, hood-shaped, enclosing the 

 anthers and inserted with the stamens at the top of the calyx-tube. Disk scarcely 

 prominent, round the top of the ovary at the base of the calyx-tube. Ovary 

 wholly inferior, 3-celled. Style entire or minutely 8-toothed. Capsule enclosed 

 in the base of the calyx-tube, which is often contracted over it or deciduous ; the 

 endocarp separating into 8 membranous or crustaceous cocci opening in 2 valves. 

 Seeds of Pomadems.- — Shrubs, with a habit of Spyridivmi. Flowers sessile, in 

 heads, or in one species in a cyme, surrounded by small, persistent, imbricate 

 brown bracts, and sometimes with 1 or 2 floral leaves, as in Spyridiurn. 



The genus is confined to Australia. The floral characters are those of Cryptandra, with the. 

 inflorescenoe ot Spyridiam. — Benth. 



1. S. Scortechinli (after Eey. B. Scorteohini), F. v. M., Austr. Chem. and 

 Drug., 1884. An erect shrub of several feet, the branches pubescent with stellate 

 hairs. Leaves lanceolate, acute, -J to fin. long, 2 to 4 lines broad, shining above, 

 grey beneath, the margins recurved. Flower-heads dense and somewhat 

 compound, terminal, J to lin. diameter; bracts scarious, dark-brown, almost 

 oval, keeled. Calyx small, enveloped in white intricate hairs ; lobes shorter than 

 the tube, woolly ; petals and stamens inserted near the summit of the calyx-tube. 

 Style short, capsule glabrous. — F. v. M. I.e. 



Hab. : Severn Eiver. 



10. CRYPTANDRA, Sm. 



(From the anthers being hidden in the petal.) 

 (Wiehurea, Nees.) 

 Calyx-tube adherent at the base, free, eampanulate or tubular and persistent 

 above the ovary and disk, 5-lobed at the top or to the middle. Petals 5, hood- 

 shaped, enclosing the anthers and inserted with the stamens at the top of the 

 calyx-tube. Disk annular, or often scarcely prominent round the top of the ovary, at 

 the base of the calyx-tube. Ovary wholly inferior, or slightly prominent in the 



