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Austi^alian Plants. 



Steudel. Hispid from starry hair ; leaves petiolate, oblongs 

 entire, blunt on the summit and rounded on the base ; stipules 

 large, foliaceous, oblique, ovate or half cordate; racemes 

 lateral, simple, few-flowered; segments of the hypocalycine 

 bracteola lanceolate; petals five or wanting; germen short- 

 downy, pointed ; style glabrous, as long as the anthers, which 

 are at the top short-dehiscent ; capsule three-celled. 



On coast rocks of Wilson's Promontory, on scrubby places 

 of the Bugle .Ranges, and on the Grawler and Murray River. 

 The first species known from the eastern portion of Australia. 



9. Lasiopetalum BehriL 



Leaves coriaceous, narrow-oblong, obtuse, above at length 

 perfectly smooth, beneath covered with a velvety grey-brown 

 toment; cyme few-flowered, about as long as the opposite 

 leaf; basilar bracteole linear, the upper one tripartite and 

 half as long as the calyx, with unilateral linear scarcely 

 unequal segments; lacinai of the calyx outside starry grey- 

 hairy, inside smooth, ovate-lanceolate, acute ; germen blunt, 

 white velutinous. 



In the Mallee Scrub on the Murray River and St. Vincent's 

 Gulf, where it was at first observed by Dr. H. Behr. 



10. Corethrostylis SchulzeniL 



Leaves thin, cordate, somewhat acute, above asperulous^ 

 beneath grey - green and thinly tomentose ; cyme about as 

 long as the opposite leaf ; bracteoles linear-filifiorm, undivided, 

 solitary, the upper one a little remote from the calyx, which 

 is whitish, almost membraneous, marcescent and not spotted ; 

 petals opposite to the filament, smooth or outward hairy; 

 germen white from glandless velvet hair ; style with excep- 

 tion of the summit densely retro-pilose. 



In the Salt Flatt at Guichen Bay and on Mount Benson. 

 Intermediate between C. membranacea and C. cordifolia from 

 the western coast of Australia, to which part of the country 

 the genus was formerly considered restricted. 



Stackhousiace^. 



IL Tripterococcus spathulatus. 



Smooth, stems branched, ascendent ; branches almost terete, 

 streaked, foliate ; leaves fleshy, oblong or obovate-spathulate ; 



