22 PHANEROGAMIA. 



flores vix longioribus; staminibus 9-10; carpellis 3 dispermis; caule 

 diffusa. 



Pleurandra Canvphorosma, Sieb. in Spreng. Syst. Veg. Cur. Post. p. 191. 



Hab. Sydney, New South Wales. 



A shrubby plant, a foot or less in height, with numerous, diffuse 

 and spreading branches ; the branchlets minutely hairy. Leaves subu- 

 late-filiform, obtuse, narrowed at the base, mostly fascicled, minutely 

 hairy, at length nearly glabrous, about a quarter or one third of an 

 inch long; those next the flowers scarcely longer than the calyx. 

 Flowers terminal, or terminating very short branchlets, thus appear- 

 ing lateral, not pedunculate. Sepals mucronate-cuspidate, shorter 

 than the dilated-obovate petals. /Stamens 9 or 10 in three clusters 

 alternate with the three ovaries, usually four in one cluster and three 

 in each of the others : filaments distinct, longer than the oval anthers. 

 Carpels 3, glabrous, ovoid, two-seeded. Seeds ovoid; the base sur- 

 rounded with a small hyaline and much laciniated arillus. 



This species is very closely allied to H. fasciculata ; from which it 

 principally, and perhaps too slightly, differs in its more diffuse habit, 

 rather smaller flowers, and shorter leaves; those of H. fasciculata 

 being from half an inch to an inch long, and much exceeding the 

 flowers. Both appear to be common around Sydney. 



5. PLEURANDRA, Labill. 

 1. Pleurandra scabra, R. Br. 



Pleurandra scabra, It. Br. in DC. Syst. 1, p. 419, & Prodr. 1, p. 72. 



Var. (3. foliis oblong o-ovalibus vel obovatis; ramis diffusioribus ; ramulis 

 angulatis fere glabris. 



Hab. Sydney, New South Wales. 



We have both the var. /3, which has more diffuse or spreading 



