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Already Adr. de Jussieu expressed his inclination to transfer Crowea to Eriostemon, its only distinction 
consisting* in the long-bearded anthers. 
The species nearest in affinity to E. Crowei is unquestionably E. salicifolius. It is not unlike it in 
stature, and occurs also both with narrow and broad leaves; the appendix of the anthers, although smooth 
and small in comparison to that of E. Crowei, is nevertheless larger than in most congeners. The most 
marked character of this plant consists, however, in the imbricate bracts and bracteoles of the pedicels. 
Possibly this plant may yet be found in the eastern parts of Gipps Land. In Dr. Beckler’s collection of 
plants from the Clarence River occurs a Rutaceous plant without fruits and well-developed flowers; the 
latter are terminal, crowded and seemingly umbellate, the leaves are obovate-cuneate, glabrous, minutely 
bilobed by a terminal notch, gnawed in front and from J-f inch long*; the branches are covered with a starry 
velvet. If this plant should prove referable to Eriostemon it may receive the name E. erosus. 
The Eriostemon lanceolatus, Jos. Geertn. Carpol. Suppl. 154, t. 210, fig. 6, seems almost with certainty 
referable to E. salicifolius, the very characteristic imbricate bracts being well expressed in the plate above 
quoted. 
Sect. II. Erionema. 
Leaves often glandulous-rough, destitute of hair or scales. Elowers in most cases solitary. 
Segments of the calyx small. Petals usually deciduous, white, often tinged with pink, convolute- 
imbricate in aestivation. Stamens shorter than the corolla. Filaments fringed. Amthers terminated 
by a small glabrous appendage. Stigmas minute, coherent. Carpels generally rostrate. 
Eriostemon trachyphyllus, F . M. in Transact . Phil. Soc . Viet . i. 99. 
Tall, glabrous, dotted with prominent glands; leaves chartaceous , lanceolate- or cuneate-oblong, entire, 
flat, mucronulate, sessile, veined, paler beneath; pedicels, axillary and terminal, solitary, rarely twin and 
ternate, shorter than the leaves, about as long as or longer than the flowers, minutely bracteolate at the 
base; segments of the calyx minute, roundish-ovate, ciliolated, many times shorter than the white outside 
glabrous deciduous petals; filaments ciliated, more than half or nearly as long as the corolla, glabrous at the 
base and apex; anthers minutely appendiculate; style capillary, glabrous; stigma minute, five-lobed; carpels 
blunt , longitudinally semiconnate into a roundish five-angular capsule, turgid, rhomboid-ovate, bursting 
along the inner and the upper part of the dorsal suture; valves of the endocaip deeply excised at the inner 
edge; placental membrane subcordate; seeds veiy shining, black and brown variegated; cotyledons shorter 
than the radicle. 
On rocky declivities at the Snowy River near the Pinch River. In New South Wales on forest-rivulets 
amongst granite rocks near the sources of the Yowaka River. 
A tall shrub, occasionally arborescent and then 12-15 feet high, pervaded by a strong somewhat 
aromatic scent. Branches numerous, more or less spreading, cylindrical. Branchlets somewhat angular, 
densely tuberculated. Leaves generally from 1J-2J inches long, from 3-5 lines broad, tapering from near 
the middle into an almost cuneate base, more blunt than acute, dark-green and somewhat shining above, 
considerably or not much paler beneath, with glands more prominent on the lower than on the upper page, 
the dots bearing rarely a minute tuft of stellate hair. Peduncles none. Pedicels from a few lines to nearly 
1 inch long, comparatively slender, not so much thickened at the apex as in many other species, at the 
base provided with very small blunt ciliolated bracts and bracteoles, which vary considerably in shape. 
Segments of the calyx only about \ line long. Petals imbricate in aestivation, spreading, 2|-3 lines long, 
oblong-ovate, sessile, inside hardly visibly downy. Petaline filaments somewhat shorter than the others, 1J-2 
lines long, all conspicuously downy, particularly towards the middle, narrowly linear-subulate. Anthers 
line long*, ovate-cordate, oscillating, affixed between the lobes, terminated by a w’hite blunt glabrous 
apex, and bearing a gland below* the tip. Pollen scarlet, consisting of ovate smooth longitudinally dehiscent 
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