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the Upper Clarence River and on the highlands of New England hears great similarity to B. hirsuta, and 
agrees closely with Sir Will. Hooker’s note on Z. Fraseri in Sir Th. Mitchell’s Tropical Australia, p. 339. 
The time B. hirsuta (Zieria hirsuta, Cand. Prodr. i. 723) differs from the small-leaved few-flowered variety of 
B. arboreseens in sepals much pointed and nearly as long as the corolla, and in carpels broad-ovate, almost 
roundish. 
Sect. II. OCJTARRHENA. 
Sepaline and petaline stamens fertile; disk undivided. 
Boronia parviflora, Smith , Tracts relating to Nat. Hist. t. 5 ; Transact. Linn. Soc. viii. 285; 
B. pilonema, Labill. Nov. Holl. Plant. Specim. i. 98, t. 126; Lam. Encycl . t . 944 ,• J. Hook. FI. Tasm. 
i. 66. 
Suffndicose , small ; leaves narrow- or oblong- or obovate-lanceolate, flat, subsessile, entire or indis¬ 
tinctly crenulated, as well as branches, pedicels and bracteoles glabrous, opaque; pedicels terminal and 
axillary, frequently solitary, occasionally two or three together, as long as or often shorter than the flower, 
much thickened towards the apex, generally provided near the base with two lanceolate or linear foliaceous 
bracteoles; sepals ovate-lanceolate, nearly as long as the small outside glabrous corolla , seldom longer, 
inward slightly downy; filaments glabrous or slightly hairy, less than half as long as the petals, all fertile, 
hardly or distinctly glandulous and tumescent at the apex; anthers without appendage , glabrous, subcordate; 
style very short, as well as the ovary glabrous; stigma minute, subcapitate; disk short, undivided; carpels' 
nearly as long as the sepals; endocarp at the junction of the valves without prominent tooth; seeds small , 
shining-black, smooth; cotyledons shorter than the radicle. 
In heathy and sandy moors at Port Albert, towards Wilson’s Promontory and near Cape Liptrap; 
extends also to Tasmania and to New South Wales, northward at least as far as the Hastings River, where 
it was collected by Dr. Beckler. 
One of the smallest species of the genus, from a few inches to about 1 foot long, erect, diffuse or quite 
prostrate, already bearing flowers in the first year of growth, then having the appearance of an annual plant. 
Root subcylindrical, tortuous, emitting more or less stout or slender fibres. Stems terete, simply or repeatedly 
almost dichotomously branched. Leaves somewhat fleshy, green or not rarely tinged with purple, very 
faintly one-nerved, not conspicuously veined, J-l inch long, tapering* generally into a very short petiole. 
Bracteoles quite foliaceous or at the margin membranous, 1J-6 lines long, |-1 line broad, in some instances 
not discernible from leaves. Pedicels 1J-6 lines long, when short assuming* a clavate shape and forming 
almost an attenuated base to the calyx. Sepals 2-2| fines long*, often obscure-purplish, valvate in aestivation, 
persistent, slightly spreading, neither ciliate nor at the margin truly membranous, sometimes broad-ovate, 
always pointed. Petals slowly dropping, imbricate in cestivation, subovate, generally short-acuminate, 
whitish or pink, inside veiy finely but imperfectly downy, tapering into a very short unguis, tinged along 
the middle 'with green purple or even orange color. Sepaline stamens not much longer than the rest. 
Filaments all linear-subulate, white or pink, scabrous towards the summit with minute glands, or through 
the copious increase of glands swelling near the top, or in rare instances quite devoid of glands, bearing 
the anther at the inward-bent short pointed apex, inserted outside the very low glabrous slightly repand 
hypogy 110118 Anthers fine long, yellow at first orange, dorsifixed below the middle, terminated 
by a scarcely perceptible white point. Pollen-grains smooth, ellipsoid, with longitudinal slits. Stigma 
hardly broader than the style, with no veiy distinct furrows, convex. Carpels 1J-2 fines long, subtruncate, 
oblique-ovate, with a very minute point. Endocarp whitish, veinless, thin-cartilaginous. Seeds about § fine 
long*, broad-subovate, slightly compressed. Raphe to about one-third of the length of the seed turgid and 
brownish. Testa brittle. Embryo almost as long* as the albumen. Radicle at least twice as long as the 
cotyledons, straight. 
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