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PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO 
[Ihitacea. 
Leaves rigid, 3-8 lines long, f-2 lines broad, somewhat blunt at the base, vividly green, rather shining 
particularly above, often slightly carinate by the beneath prominent middle-nerve, with a smooth marginal 
nerve and a mucro of 1 line length, occasionally somewhat scabrous-downy. Bracts and bracteoles about 
J line long, frequently rigidulous, cuspidate, ovate-cymbiform. Pedicels 1-4 lines long, upwards slightly 
thickened. Sepals imbricate in prseflorescence, greenish, i-§ Hne long. Petals lanceolate, acute, lj-3 lines 
long*, covered with exceedingly minute velvet-downs on the inner side, outside dotted with immersed glands, 
valvate in aestivation, lienee not more tender towards the margin than in its other part. Filaments white, 
linear, 1J—If lines long, sometimes broader upwards; the petaline ones a little shorter than the rest; all 
truncate or blunt below the apex, thence projecting* into a very short subulate apex, which carries the anther. 
The latter subcordate, brownish, about J line long*, glabrous, dorsifixed, terminated by a blunt white glabrous 
broad apicular turgid enlargement of the connective. Style filiform, 1 hne or less long, half concealed 
by the perfectly disconnected glabrous ovaries. Stigma depressed, glabrous. Disk short, entire, glabrous, 
slightly waved. Carpels free, about 2 \ lines long*, scarcely more than 1 line broad, with a short and pointed 
but also occasionally blunt rostrum, transversely veined. Endocarp livid, nerveless; its valves connected 
finally only near the base and therefore hardly forming a cavity. Placental membrane cuspidate, about 
li line long. Seeds slightly rough from longitudinal prominulous irregular lines, throughout over their 
surface of pure black color, destitute of any lustre, ovate-kidneyshaped, about lb line long. Albumen copious. 
Embryo almost straight, cylindrical, very slender. Cotyledons nearly as long as the radicle. 
The pricldy-cuspidate small leaves, together with the singular form of the filaments, which bear only 
some remote comparison to E. salicifolius, mark this kind of Eriostemon one of the most curious of the genus. 
In the latter notes it approaches to the main species of Boronia. 
Eriostemon lamprophyllus, F. M. in Joum . of Pharmac . Soc. of Viet . ii. 43. 
Branchlets tubercled, slightly downy; leaves small , crowded, thin-coriaceous, lanceolate or obovate- or 
oblong- lanceolate, acute , glabrous, flat, entire or in front slightly repand-crenulate, shining on both pages, 
short-petiolate; peduncles short or obliterated; pedicels principally terminal, solitary 7 - or a few umbellate; 
bracteoles at or towards the base of the pedicels very small, nearly" subulate; segments of the minute calyx 
deltoid, somewhat acuminate and ciliolated; petals deciduous; style capillary, glabrous; stigma capitellate, 
veiy minute; carpels ovate-rhomboid, rostrate; valves of the endocarp forming above their base a deltoid 
tooth; placental membrane broad ovate-navicular; seeds olive-black, polished; radicle very much longer than 
the cotyledons . 
On the rocky" subalpine summit of Mount Ligar towards the sources of the McAllister River. 
A wddely T spreading dense shrub of a few feet high. Branches terete. Branchlets glabrescent, numerous, 
more or less patent, rather angular. Leaves somewdiat or considerably spreading, 3-6 fines long, 1-1J line 
broad, generally rather broader above the middle, one-nerved, not much paler beneath, transparently dotted. 
Pedicels 2-3 fines long, slender, glabrous, but dotted with resinous glands, slightly thickened at the upper 
extremity". Caly T x hardly’- more than \ fine long. Petals and stamens as yet unknown, early dropping. 
Ovaries smooth, acute, disconnected. Disk very narrow, undivided. Carpels hardly 2 fines long, terminated 
by a conspicuous slender beak, which, as in all instances of this order, forms the continuation of the dorsal 
’part of the pericarp, transversely fined by" somewdiat arcuate veins. Endocarp pale-y r ellow, somewhat shining. 
Placental membrane scarcely 1 fine long*, sometimes dilated into an almost orbicular form. Seeds about 
1 k ^ ne l° n 8> oblique ellipsoid-ovate, not very" turgid, of a paler or darker shade. Embryo almost straight, 
nearly as long as the albumen, very slender, cylindrical; radicle blunt, four times as long as the somewhat 
attenuated and unequal cotyledons. 
No other species show's considerable similarity" to E. lampropliydlus than the E. elatior (F. M. Fragm. 
Phytogr. Austr. i. 181) from New England. The generally" blunt and longer leaves of the latter, the short 
blunt and coherent ovaries, which, moreover, by the elongation of the gynopliorous 'disk, are raised very 
