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late beak, only bursting along tlie inner suture. Endocarp pale-yellow, nerveless, shining, in age entirely 
separating into its valves. Placental membrane white, tender, cymbiform, comparatively narrow, but 
unusually long, measuring often nearly 2 lines. Seeds oblique ovate-ellipsoid, 2-2J lines long, much more 
shining at the black base than in other parts. Embryo not perfected in any of the seeds before us on this 
occasion. 
The affinity of this species tends evidently to E. buxifolius, which shares with it the glaucescence, the 
dotted roughness, the structure of flowers and ovaries. The fruit of the latter we had no opportunity as yet 
to compare; the chief distinctions of E. buxifolius rest in its pubescent branches, the smallness and particu¬ 
larly shortness of leaves, and in the always solitary and constantly short pedicels. Through E. intermedius, 
collected by Mr. W. Vernon near Port Jackson, it passes seemingly into E. myoporoides. E. lineare, A. 
Cunn. (E. scaber, Paxt. Mag. xiii. 1.127), appears to offer no further distinctions than the extreme narrow¬ 
ness of the leaves, unless such should be discerned in the fruit. 
In flower during the earlier part of the spring. 
Eriostemon verrucosus, Ach. Richard, in Voyage d?Astrolabe, ii. 74, t. 26 5 J. Hook. FI. Tasm, 
i. 64; E. obcordatus, All. Cunn. in Hook. Joum. ofBot. i. 254; Icon. Plant, t. 60. 
Glabrous, opaque, glandulous-tuberculate ; leaves thick, obcordate-cuneate, Hunt, complicate, subsessile, 
beneath verruculose; peduncles very short or obliterated, solitary; pedicels axillary and terminal, solitary or 
rarely twin, shorter than the leaves, minutely bracteolate at the base; segments of the calyx minute, 
rhomboid or roundish-deltoid, scarcely ciliolated, many times shorter than the white or partially pink outside 
glabrous deciduous corolla; filaments ciliated, about half as long as the petals; anthers minutely appendicu- 
late; style short, filiform, glabrous; stigma minute, faintly lobed; ovaries smooth, pointed. 
On barren ranges and forest-land not common; near Forest Creek, C. J. La Trobe; on Mount Korong, 
B. Ross; on the summit of Mount Arapiles, J. Dallachy; on Mount Zero, C. Wilhelmi; in the Black Forest, 
F. M.; less rare in Tasmania. 
A shrub from 1 to a few feet high. Branches terete, very densely covered with glandular tubercles. 
Leaves without lustre, green or more frequently glaucous, rather fleshy, more or less folded together, 2-8 
lines long, almost even above, from tumescent perforated glands rough beneath, with hardly perceptible 
midrib. Peduncles 1J line long or often shorter. Bracteoles deciduous, very minute, roundish, smooth. 
Pedicels stout, angular, from J-2 lines long', upwards thickened. Calyx less than 1 line long; its segments 
in aestivation imbricate. Petals 2-3 lines long, in praeflorescence imbricate, sessile, obovate- or elliptical- 
oblong, inside clothed with barely perceptible downs. Filaments linear-subulate, white, variable in degree 
of hairiness; the terminal cilise the long*est. Anthers pale, subcordate, hardly J line long, erect, somewhat 
oscillating' in age; the apex white, very small, glabrous. Style about 1 line in length. Disk narrow, entire. 
Ovaries attenuated and disconnected at the apex, indicating rostrate fruits. The carpels, which may exhibit 
marked distinctions from those of E. buxifolius, E. gracilis and other allied species, have not been available 
for description. 
In flower during the spring. 
Eriostemon difformis, All. Cunn. in Hueg. Enum. Plant. Nov. Holl. Austr. Occ. 15 ; E. brevi- 
folius, A. Cunn. 1. c. ; E. rhombeus, Lindl. in Mitch. Prop . Austr. 293; E. lialmaturorum, F. M. in IAnncea, 
1852, 377. 
Branchlets numerous, generally downy, glandulous-tuberculate; leaves small, Hunt, cuneate- or 
rhomboid-oblong or subovate or irregularly club-shaped, flat or thickened at the margin or almost semiterete 
or subcylindrical, grossly glandulous and thinly repand or crenulate, on short petioles; pedicels terminal, 
solitary, seldom axillary or geminate or ternate, often downy, about as long as or longer than the leaves; 
sepals small, subovate, sometimes rhomboid, generally tuberculate, many times shorter than the corolla; 
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