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Australian Plants. 



29. Trachycaryon Hookeri, 



Leaves alternate, long-petiolate, lanceolate-oblong, gra- 

 dually narrowed into the base, acute or obtuse, smooth or 

 grey velutinous, irregularly crenate-toothed or bluntly 

 lobed, at the base of the petiole on both sides beset with a small 

 gland ; femal flowers apetalous ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 

 acut ; styles at the base connate, deeply bifid ; capsule trigas- 

 trous, glabrescent. 



Ay velutinum; 



Leaves above thinly, below together with twigs and flowers 

 thicker velutinous. 



jB, glabriusculum ; 



Leaves on both sides smooth, twigs and flowers glabrescent. 

 On sandridges along the Murray, towards the jimction of 

 the Darling and the Murrumbidgee. 



30. Beyeria opaca. 



Smooth j twigs compressed, yellowish-green ; leaves narrowly 

 or linear-oblong, rounded-blunt, gradually narrowed into the 

 base, hardly viscous or shining, with flat or slightly recurved 

 margins, above light-beneath pale-green ; pedicels of subequal 

 length with the calyx ; capsuls ovate-globose, hardly furrowed 

 at the suturas ; seeds shining, variegated, with a thick caruncula. 



In the Mallee scrub, between Lake Lalbert, Lake Tyrrell, 

 and the Murray River. 



MYRTACE^. 



31. Lhotzkya genethylloides. 



Flowers terminal, nearly capitate; leaves crowded, exstipulate^ 

 spreading, petiolate, without stipules, tetragonal, at length 

 above flattening, subobtuse, as well as the twigs and the tube 

 of the calyx hirtellous ; bracteols shorter than the pentagonal 

 tube of the calyx, connate to the middle and apiculate by the 

 excurring carina. 



In rocky arid declivities of the Grampians, the Serra, and 

 Victoria ranges. 



B, glabra; 



Dwarf, leaves almost smooth. 



On the subalpine summit of Mount William. 



I do not hesitate to refer to this species Genethyllis alpestris, 

 of Lindley, (in Mitchell, Three Expeditions, vol. ii. p. 178,) 

 described from specimens, collected by Sir Thomas Mitchell 

 on Mount William. These specimens, transmitted to Professor 



