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visibly on a stipes, and the beakless carpels, offer obvious distinctions, which may possibly be strengthened 
when we are acquainted with the flowers of E. lamprophyllus. The cotyledons prove to be very short in 
either species. The New Zealand E. nudus (Phebalium nudum, Hook. Icon. 568) stands in very close 
relation to E. elatior ; indeed, their distinctions are as yet not clearly ascertained. 
Sriostemon Hillebrandii, F. M. in Transact. Phil Soc . Viet. i. 10,- Phebalium bilobum, Lindl. 
in Mitcli. Three Exped. ii. 178 (not of Bartling , in Lehm. PI. Preiss. i. 172); P. truncatum, J. Hook. FI. 
Tasmania , i. 64, t. 9, & ii. 358. 
Branchlets downy,- leaves petiolate, irregularly lanceolate, oblong-, ovate or quadrate-ovate, truncate or 
short-bilobed at the apex , generally serrulated^ rarely entire, glabrous, seldom scantily pubescent or scabrous- 
downy, flat or recurved at the margin, shining on both pages; pedicels terminal, corymbose or subumbellate, 
longer than the peduncle, rarely solitary or axillary in the axis of the upper leaves, generally with two very 
minute narrow alternate bracteoles towards the middle, scantily downy or subglabrous; segments of the 
minute calyx deltoid; petals glabrous, white, tinged with pink, deciduous; filaments as long as the corolla 
and somewhat longer, smooth, setaceous; anthers exappendiculate; style capillary} ovaries two or three 
seldom four, smooth, coherent, raised on a short stipes; carpels broad oblique-ovate, rostrate; valves of the 
endocarp forming at the junction a deltoid tooth; placental membrane carnulent; seeds smooth, brownish, 
shining; cotyledons about half as long as the radicle. 
On cataracts and rocky rivulets in the Victoria Ranges and Grampians; on the subalpine summit of 
Mount William; in South Australia, on stony declivities towards Mount Lofty, and in rocky glens at the 
sources of the Gawler River. 
A charming bush, subject to many alterations in habit, according to the localities which it occupies; in 
drier ground dwarf and very spreading, in irrigated valleys straight and attaining a height of fully 6 feet. 
Branches terete. Branchlets generally brown-red, clothed densely or scantily with grey often starry downs, 
occasionally perfectly glabrous. Leaves always conspicuously stalked, thin-coriaceous or of rigid firmness, 
from 2-12 lines long, singularly aberrant in form, sometimes considerably dilated towards the base, and there 
then very blunt or even subcordate, sometimes (in young specimens chiefly) very narrow, almost linear, either 
excised or dilated-bilobed at the apex or simply truncate, or by having the frontal margin, rolled back retuse, 
rarely some rounded-blunt, in small-leaved varieties not or but slightly denticulated, in the large-leaved 
varieties from the summit fully to the base or nearly to it sharply and callously toothed, paler beneath, usually 
deprived of any indument, with a sometimes faintly sometimes strongly prominent midnerve. Peduncles 
downy, generally but very few fines long* or even obliterated. Pedicels 2—6 fines long-, frequently saturated- 
red, slender, but slightly thickened towards the summit, glabrous or scantily downy, somewhat ang-ular, at 
the base often provided with a linear- or oblong- or ovate-canaliculate downy bract, which measures about I 
line or less in length, towards the middle in most cases furnished with two exceedingly small and especially 
narrow long-persistent bracteoles, not jointed. Calyx glabrous or slightly hairy, often reddish, only about i 
line long. Petals about 2 fines long, narrow-lanceolate, often considerably tinged with red in the upper 
portion of their outer face, acute, sessile. Sepaline filaments a little longer than the corolla; petafine ones of 
about the same length as the petals, usually white, gradually pointed, simultaneously with the corolla 
di opping. Anthers J —3 fine long*, versatile, resting on the filament at their dorsal cavity, bursting with more 
marginal than frontal fissures, yellow or at first red, destitute of an apiculum, but bearing a small dorsal gland 
just above the point of insertion. Dry pollen-grains smooth, yellowish-white, subovate, slit lengthwise. 
Styles perfectly muted into one, glabrous, seldom conspersed with hardly perceptible downs, about 1 fine long*. 
Stigmas conglutinated into one, very minute, scarcely expanding beyond the apex of the style. Gynophor 
glabrous, cylindrical, about J fine long. Carpels 1J-2 fines long, broad towards the summit, yet hardly 
truncate, but rather rounded-blunt, almost laterally rostrate in consequence of the turgidity of its sutural face, 
in an irregular manner transversely fined by curved veins; the rostrum about j fine long. Endocarp livid or 
