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PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO 
[Rutacea. 
Branchlets acutangular; leaves subcoriaceous, glabrous, broad- or oblong-linear or lanceolate, rarely 
ovate, entire, flat or narrowly recurved at tbe margin ,• pedicels axillary, solitary, robust, shorter than the 
flower, minutely bracteolate at tbe base; sepals broad- or orbicular-ovate, ciliate, many times shorter than the 
glabrous usually red corolla; filaments coherent , ciliated, shorter than the petals ; anthers terminated by a 
long densely bearded appendage, erect; style downy, exceedingly short; stigma undivided, broader than the 
style; ovary glabrous; carpels hardly half as long as the sessile persistent petals, oblique-ovate, blunt; 
valves of the endocarp dilated above the middle; seeds black, somewhat shining, imperfectly wrinkled- 
tuberculate; cotyledons barely half as long as the radicle. 
On the subalpine summit of Mount McFarlane, near Omeo; on the gravelly banks of the Mitta Mitta, 
the Livingstone and Genoa River, and on the Boggy Creek towards Lake King; thence extending- into 
New South Wales, where it is observed at the Womboyn and Yowaka River and in the vicinity 7 of Botany 
Bay. 
A shrub varying in height from 1-6 feet, erect or somewhat spreading, many branched, resembling 
certain Boronias. Branches terete. Branchlets indistinctly 7 or prominently 7 acutangular, slender or robust, 
sometimes with decurrent wing-like edges, quite glabrous or seriate-downy 7 . Leaves tapering gradually into 
the sessile or short-stalked base, alternate or under imperfect development of branchlets almost fasciculate, 
shining on both pages, blunt or acute, minutely apiculate, paler beneath, §-2| inches long, f-6 lines rarely 
1 inch broad. Pedicels 1-4 lines long, thickened towards the apex, five-furrowed, at the base provided not 
only with a pair of bracteoles but also often with a pair of very 7 minute almost ovate bracts. Bracteoles linear- 
oblong or ovate or even roundish, generally 7 less than 1 line long, sometimes 1J line in length, tender, puberu- 
lous. Sepals ovate or round-ovate, very blunt, appressed as is usually 7 the case with those of Eriostemons, 
from f-li line long. Petals sessile, oblong- rarely broad-oval, 3-7 lines long, saturate or sometimes pale 
red, or partially, rarely 7 entirely, green or whitish, far less spreading than those of most species of Eriostemon, 
indeed almost connivent into a cylindrical-campanulate corolla, glabrous, of rather firm consistence, faintly 
nerved and veined. Stamens less variable in size than the corolla, thus sometimes in small-flowered varieties 
more than half as long- as the petals, in large-flowered varieties contrary often considerably' less than half as 
long as the corolla. Filaments linear, narrower upwards, usually red, 1-1J line long. Anthers with introrse 
dehiscence, yellow, about h line long, protracted into a linear-subulate inward and at the margin white- 
bearded appendage, which varies in length from J-l line, and is finally 7 recurved. Pollen-grains egg-sbaped, 
smooth, bursting with a longitudinal fissure. Disk very depressed, entire, surrounding the base of the ovary. 
Stigma dark, hemispherical or semiovate, with five longitudinal furrows. Carpels generally measuring 2-3 
lines in length. Valves of the endocarp yellowish, ribbed by transverse arcuate nerves, connate at the concave 
toothless base. Placental membrane broadly cymbiform- or rhomboid-ovate, nearly 1 line long, white. 
Seeds oblique-ovate, turgid, generally about 1| line long. Testa thin-crustaceous. Embryo very slender. 
Three varieties of this species may be distinguished, of which only the one with narrow blunt leaves, 
slender faintly angular branchlets, and generally smaller flowers, formerly distinguished as C. exalata, has as 
yet been found in Victoria. The normal variety, C. saligna, with lanceolate leaves and acutely edged 
branchlets, occurs as well as the former near Port Jackson; the broad-leaved variety 7 , C. latifolia, has been 
collected by W. Woolls, Esq., at Manly Beach. 
Aftei the reduction of C. exalata and C. latifolia to C. salig-na, only one species, partaking of the 
characters of Crowea, remains left, namely, the Eriostemon Turczaninovii (Crowea angustifolia, Turcz. in 
Bullet, de Moscou, xxii. 2, 13), which is not less variable in the shape of its leaves. 4Ve possess it fronr the 
Franklin River and a few 7 other localities of South-Western Australia. It differs widely 7 from Eriostemon 
Ciou ei in either faintly or argutely dentate leaves, which vary 7 from a narrow-linear to a lanceolate-ovate 
form and are of thinner consistence, in less distinctly ciliate sepals, in inside white, outside purplish thinner 
petals, in free generally longer filaments, in almost hastate versatile anthers, which are terminated by a 
bioader less densely bearded and less acute appendage, in a long style and possibly in carpological characters. 
