New Alpine Plants. 



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DiOSMEAE. 



4. Pliehalium ovatifolium. 



Leaves coriaceous, ovate, above smooth and shining, be* 

 neath lepidote, their margin recurved; peduncles axillary, 

 solitary, with a single flower and three or four bracts, com- 

 pressed, twice or three times shorter than the leaves ; teeths 

 of the calyx triangular-lanceolate, glabrous ; petals lanceolate- 

 ovate, whitish, little longer than the stamens ; anthers affixed 

 with their back ; filaments glabrous ; stigma capltellate, club- 

 shaped ; carpels apiculate. 



In the rocky or scrubby parts of the Australian Alps, at 

 the sources of the Murray and Snowy River. 



That the genera eriostemon and phebalium are not strictly 

 defined by clear and natural characters has been observed 

 previously in other instances- This handsome species again 

 may be referred to either of the two genera, which I would 

 propose to unite. 



5 Eriostemon traehyphyllas. 



Tall, smooth, covered with glandular warts ; leaves herba- 

 ceous, flat, entire, oblong-lanceolate, pointed, sessile, on both 

 sides green, above shining; pedicels axillary, solitary, shorter 

 than the leaves ; segments of the calyx subdeltoid, glabrous ; • 

 filaments fringed; style smooth; stigma five-cleft; carpels 

 blunt ; seeds shining, black, grey-variegate. 



On the mountains at the Snowy River, near the Pinch 

 Range, on rocks. 



A fine plants as well allied to E. myoporoides as to E, 

 intermedins. 



I beg to subjoin another rare plant of the order, although 

 not alpine. 



6. Eriostemon micropliyllus. 



Dwarf; branches asperous; branchlets thinly covered with 

 starry downs ; leaves coriaceous, crowded, much spreading, 

 ovate- or cordate-orbicular, scabrous, with recurved apex, on 

 short petioles ; flowers several together terminal, glandulose ; 

 segments of the calyx triangular-ovate, nearly smooth ; fila- 

 ments as long as the corolla, glabrous, gradually tapering into 

 the apex ; appendage of the anthers exceedingly small ; style 

 glabrous. 



