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times also membranous, and expanding’ to § line length. Seeds hardly exceeding in length 1 line, renate- 
ovate. Embryo slender, nearly as long* as the albumen. 
This plant accords in many respects with the foregoing one. 
In flower during the spring. 
To the section Leionema belong further E. montanus (Phebalium montanum, Hook. Icon. 59) and E. 
microphyllus (F. M. Transact. Phil. Soc. Viet. i. 99). 
Sect. IV. Phebalium. 
Leaves generally underneath lepidote. Flowers solitary, corymbose or umbellate. Catyx small. 
Petals yellow or white. Filaments usually glabrous. Anthers erect or versatile. Stigmas coherent. 
Eriostemon squameus, Lcibill . Nov. Noll. Plant. Specim. i. p. Ill, 1 . 141 ; F. 31. Fragm . Pliytogr. 
Austr. i. 104; Phebalium Billardierii, A dr. Puss. 3Iem. Soc. d Hist. Nat. Paris , ii. 12; J. Hook. PI. Tasm. i. 
63; P. elatum, A. Cunn. in Fields New South Wales , 331; P. retusum, Hook. Comp. Pot. 3Iag. i. 254 ; 
Icon. Plant, t. 57. 
Arborescent; bran chiefs angular; leaves large, usually acute, chartaceous, rarely coriaceous, lanceolate 
or oval- or oblong- or linear-lanceolate, entire, flat, short-stalked, above glabrous, beneath, as well as the 
branehlets, peduncles and pedicels, lepidote; corymbs simple or compound; petals white , scaleless , much 
longer than the minute deeply and acutely toothed calyx, about as long as the stamens, deciduous; filaments 
fringed towards the base or almost smooth; anthers versatile; style long and ovaries smooth; stigmas 
coherent; carpels small, rhomboid, with a minute lateral point; valves of the endocaip forming at the 
junction a short deltoid tooth; placental membrane subcordate; seeds black, smooth, shining; cotyledons 
scarcely half as long as the radicle. 
In damp forest-valleys amongst fern-trees near to Apollo Bay, towards Cape Otway and near the 
sources of the Barwon. Rather frequent in Tasmania; much rarer in New South Wales, where it has been 
found near Spring-wood by Allan Cunningham, near the River Grose by Miss Atkinson, near Parramatta by 
Will. Woolls, near Lane Cove River by Messrs. Shepherd, along the Hastings River and Cloud’s Creek by 
Dr. Beckler. 
A tall, scented, beautiful bush, finally attaining in favorable spots the form of a small or even middle- 
sized tree, having been noticed frilly 30 feet high in this colony. Branehlets covered with usually brownish 
scales, occasionally also warted. Leaves usually from 2—4 inches long- and from J—1 inch broad, in Tasmanian 
specimens of Ph. retusum coriaceous, only about 1 inch long and 2-3 lines broad, in subtropical East 
Australian specimens occasionally \ foot long and 1J inch broad, usually rather acute, although not mucronate, 
sometimes, however, quite blunt, always beautifully silvery beneath by closely appressed scales, often lightly 
waved at the margin, above dark-green, dotted with often slightly prominent and almost pellucid glands and 
usually furrowed by the impression of the midnerve. Inflorescence axillary, rarely terminal. Common 
peduncle 1 inch or less long, bearing a simple, double, or even several paniculate corymbs. Pedicels J-f inch 
long, angular, with minute and deciduous acute bracteoles at or near the base. Calyx |-1 line long, with 
deltoid lobes. Petals ovate-lanceolate, 2-2J lines long, sometimes quite sessile, sometimes contracted into a 
short claw, slightly imbricate in pneflorescence, rather membranous. Filaments white, linear-subulate, 
usually short-hairy along their lower part, in specimens from the Hastings River, however, remarkably long- 
downy. Anthers yellow, about g line long. Pollen-grains ovate, smooth. Style formed by the twisted 
coalescence of 5 into 1, capillary, about 2 lines long. Carpels for the size of the plant remarkably small, 
measuring usually not frilly 1J fine, broad and truncate at the vertex. Placental membrane about \ line 
long and broad. Seeds renate-eggshaped, about g line long. Embryo somewhat shorter than the albumen; 
its cotyledons tapering at the extremity; radicle cylindrical, slightly clavate. 
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