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PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO 
[. Uutacem. 
granules. Style at least 1 line long, greenish, formed by the twisted coalescence of live. Stigma lobed- 
capitellate. Germen globular, consisting’ of live ovaries. Disk narrow, slightly repand. Carpels 5 rarely 
6 in number, 3-4 lines long, glandulous-dotted, acute at the hack, remarkably blunt at the base, in age, 
with exception of the lower portion, which remains permanently concrete, separating from each other, the 
commissural part being- livid, the free dorsal part brownish-green, splitting not only in their entire length 
along the inner angle, hut also across the vertex. Endocarp pale-yellow, shining, nerveless, curled up as 
usual after ejecting the seeds, assuming, however, as in all congeners, its valvate shape when moistened, the 
base of both valves forming a saccate toothless cavity. Placental membrane very acute, about 1 line long 
and broad. Seeds about 2 lines long, oblique-ovate, rather turgid. Embryo very slender, nearly as long as 
the albumen. 
The coalition of the carpels distinguishes this plant from the following, to which it ranks next, and 
perhaps from every other species. 
Bears flowers early in the spring. 
Eriostemon myoporoides, Cand. Prodr. i. 720; E. cuspidatus, All. Gunn, in Fields New South 
Wales, 331; E. neriifolius, Sieb. in Spreng. Syst. cur. post. 164; E. lancifolius, F. 31. in Transact. Viet. 
Inst. i. 32. 
Glabrous, dotted with prominent glands, glaucous, leaves large, narrow- or oblong- rarely broad- 
lanceolate, entire, flat, mucronulate, subcoriaceous, sessile; peduncles compressed, axillary and terminal, 
solitary, rarely twin, much shorter than the leaves, sometimes obliterated j pedicels stout, generally umbellate 
or one or a few lateral or basal, about as long as the flowers, minutely bracteolate at the base; segments of 
the calyx minute, deltoid-roundish, ciliolated, many- times shorter than the corolla; petals white or outside 
partially red, glabrous outward, deciduous; filaments ciliated, hardly half as long as the petals; anthers 
minutely appendiculate; style rather short, filiform, glabrous; stigma minute, lobed; ovary glabrous, conical; 
carpels free, compressed, ovate, rostrate ; valves of the endocaip oblique-cuneate; placental membrane linear- 
lanceolate ; seeds grey-brown, smooth, somewhat shining. 
In the upper valleys of the Mitta Mitta; in ravines on Mount Hotham and Mount La Trobe; on the 
rocky subalpine summit of Mount Tambo and Mount Macfarlane, near Omeo; thence extending through a 
great part of eastern extratropical Australia, eastward at least as far as New England, and northward as far 
as the Glasshouse Mountains near Moreton Bay. 
A beautiful odorous shrub of robust habit, not dissimilar to certain Myoporums, obtaining occasionally 
a height of 6 feet, frequently, however, more dwarf, possibly hardy in England. Branches after the lapse of 
the leaves thickly cicatrisate. Leaves mostly from 2-4 inches long, from 4-9 lines broad, more or less acute, 
rarely rounded-blunt at the apex, strongly one-nerved, faintly or indistinctly veined, nearly of equal paleness 
on both sides, opaque or pruinose. Peduncles generally considerably shorter rarely longer than 1 inch. 
Pedicels obtusangular, 3-9 in each umbel. Bracteoles ciliolated, mostly semiovate or deltoid, about J rarely 
1 line long, forming a sort of small involucre at the base of the umbel. Segments of the calyx about \ line 
long, imbricate in aestivation. Petals spreading, oblong-ovate, sessile, 3-4 lines long, of rather firm con¬ 
sistence, with exceedingly faint pubescence inside, imbricate in aestivation. Filaments 1J-2 lines long, free, 
white, linear and short-fringed in their lower part, subulate-attenuated and longer-fringed upwards; the 
petaline ones somewhat shorter than the rest, also less pointed and their anthers later shedding the pollen, all 
bent inward over the ovary-, which by their mutual close proximity they conceal, divergent towards the 
summit. Anthers ovate-cordate, with introrse dehiscence, fixed between their basal lobes, at first erect, later 
somewhat oscillating'; their acumen narrow, white, g’labrous; the cells about h line long - . Pollen orange- 
colored ; its grains ellipsoid, longitudinally slit. Style glabrous, about 1 line long’, green, partly concealed 
by the pointed tops of the ovaries. Stigma formed by the coalescence of five, which are minute and blunt. 
Disk low and narrow, slightly undulate. Carpels 2h— 3 lines long’, attenuated into a hardly divergent subu- 
