Australian Plants, 



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On the rocky summit of Momit William, 5^000 feet above 

 the level of the sea. 



This highly ornamental plant forms a connecting link be- 

 tween Phebalium and Eriostemon^ and hds been described by 

 Dr. Lindley as a species of the former genns (under the name 

 of Phebalium bilobum) in Sir T. Mitchell's third expedition 

 vol. II, p., 178. 



It might be almost considered as a genus distinct of both ; 

 and South Australian specimens have been under these consi- 

 derations distributedmth the nameof Ilillebrandia Australasica. 



14. Crowea exalata. 



Much branched, upright or diffuse ; twigs indistinctly angu- 

 late, wingless, puberlous ; leaves alternate or fasciculate, broad- 

 linear, gradually towards the basis narrower, blunt, minutely 

 apiculatc, with recurved margins ; pedicels of sub-equal 

 length with the calyx, solitary ; petals rose-red. 



On the rocky tops of Mount M^Farlanc, about 5000 feet 

 above the sea ; on the gravelly banks of the Mitta Mitta and 

 Livingstone River towards Lake Omeo, and on the Boggy 

 Creek in Gipps' Land. 



Easily to be distinguished from Crowea saligna, by thicker 

 much smaller leaves, which are not gradually narrowed at the 

 top, by wingless twigs and smaller flowers. 



15. Boronia coerulescens, 



Suffruticose ; stems upright, branched, terete ; leaves thick_, 

 sessile, oblong-linear, obtuse, channelled, beneath glandulose- 

 tuberculate ; pedicels axillary and terminal, solitary, thick- 

 ened at the apex, sub-equal in length to the leaves ; flowers 

 octandrous ; sepals oblong or lanceolate, of less than half the 

 length of the bluish petals ; filaments ciliate ; seeds reticulate- 

 venose. 



A, glabrescens : branches, leaves and pedicels smoothish, 

 scabrous ; flowers smaller, with acute lanceolate sepals. 



In barren places from the Mallee scrub on the Murray 

 River to Spencer's Gulf. 



B, pubescens : branches, leaves . and pedicels short-pube- 

 scent ; flowers larger ; sepals oblong, obtuse. 



On rocky hills in the Grampians, and in the desert towards 

 Guichen Bay. 



16. Boronia veronicea. 

 (Zieria veronicea Ferd. Mueller , ColLJ 

 Covered with a velvet-like indument ; leaves approximate. 



