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of the numerous branchlets, and are not so distinctly 
opposite or as bifarious as in the typical D. taxifolius or 
the var. biflora. The bracts are also shorter than the 
flowers whereas in all other forms they are equal in length 
or slightly exceed the flowers. 
Diffuse or decumbent shrub, branches rarely more than two to 
three feet long, the branchlets being more or less shortened and 
crowded. Leaves crowded, more or less fascicled, and not so. 
distinctly opposite as in taaxifolia and grandiflora, falecate and 
distinctly triquetrous, acute but not mucronate as in D. taxifolia; 
the petiole less distinct, the base decurrent on the branches and 
uniform in colour with the articulation. 
Flowers usually 6, crowded together at the extremity of the 
branchlets in the axils of the leaves. Bracteoles acutely keeled, 
4 mm. long, two-thirds as long as the flowers; calyx 5-6 mm. 
Jong, with five prominent ribs, slightly rugose between the ribs in 
the lower part, the lobes orbicular, petaloid, slightly ciliate. Petals 
scarcely distinguishable from the calyx-lobes. 
Anthers 10, with distinct but minute filaments, alternating with 
minute subulate staminodia. 
Style protruding beyond the apex of the corolla about 5 — 6 mm. 
and in this respect slightly exceeding that of D. taxifolia. 
Specimens in the National Herbarium are from the follow- 
ing localities:—Botany swamps and Coogee, HK. Betche; 
Centennial Park, W. Forsyth and HK. Cheel; Loftus, J. H. 
Camfield and A. A. Hamilton; Heathcote, A. A. Hamilton 
and K. Cheel; Cronulla, EK. Cheel. 
Darwinia grandiflora Baker and Smith, this Journal, L, 
181, 1916; D. tawifolia var. grandifiora Baker and Smith, 
ibid., XXxiI, 164, 1899, and Cheel, Proc. Linn. Soc. N,S.W.,. 
XXXVII, 393, 1912. 
This species was originally referred to by Messrs. Baker 
and Smith who state that ‘‘it occurs in a very luxuriant. 
