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PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO 
[Rutacece. 
The species nearest in affinity is the following 1 , although the habitual resemblance places E. squameus 
nearer to E. anceps, from S. W. Australia. That species is, however, almost entirely devoid of the silvery 
covering of the underpage of the leaves, whilst the petals and ovaries are outward lepidote. 
Sriostemon Iepidotus, Sprang. Syst. Teg . ii. 322; F. M. Fragm. Fhytogr. Austr. i. 104; E. 
alpinus, F. M. 1. c.; Phebalium squamulosum, Vent. Mahnais. t. 102 ; P. aureum, A. Gunn, in Field's New 
South Wales , p. 331, with plate; P. eljeagmifolium, A dr. Fuss. Mem. Soc. $ Hist. Nat. Paris , ii. 1. 11, jig. 
2; P. podocarpoides, F. M. in Transact. Viet. Inst. i. 31. 
Shrubby; branchlets hardly angular; leaves coriaceous, short-stalked, linear- or elliptical-oblong, 
rarely linear, blunt or refuse, entire or repand-denticulate, flat or revolute at the margin, above glabrous, 
beneath as well as the whole inflorescence lepidote; umbels sessile or subsessile, terminal; petals persistent, 
yellow , outside scaly, much longer than the minute indistinctly toothed calyx, shorter than the stamens; 
filaments capillary, glabrous; anthers erect, terminated by a minute gland; style long, glabrous; stigmas 
minute, coherent; ovaries lepidote; carpels rhomboid-orbicular; valves of the endocarp forming at their 
junction a deltoid tooth; placental membrane orbicular-cordate; cotyledons scarcely half as long as the 
radicle. 
On the rocky summit and declivities of Genoa Peak; along the periodically overflowed gravelly banks 
of the Genoa River; on the alpine summits of Mount Buller, the Bogong Ranges and Munyang Mountains; 
in the desert of the Tattiara country and towards the Murray River; on the Grampians; through New 
South Wales as far north as the Clarence River, ascending- to the elevated country of New England. 
A handsome shrubby plant, variable in height, never arborescent. Branchlets rusty and silvery lepi¬ 
dote ; their indument changing in age to a brown- or black-grey scaly tomentum. Leaves conspersed with 
prominent or immersed pellucid glands, in their ordinary state 1-2 inches long, li-4 lines broad; in the 
alpine variety inch long, 1-2 lines broad; in the desert variety J-J inch long, only about 1 line broad 
and (on account of their margins being perfectly revolute) almost cylindrical. Umbels terminating the 
branchlets. Pedicels as long as or little longer than the flowers. Calyx J-g line long. Petals ovate- 
lanceolate, about 2 lines long, rather acute, valvate in prmflorescence, sessile. Filaments yellow; the longer 
ones extending about one-third of their length beyond the corolla. Anthers yellow, broad-ovate, line 
long, bilobed at the base. Style twisted, hardly 2 lines long. Carpels measuring about 2 fines, clothed 
with finally seceding scales. Placental membrane § fine long*, acuminate. Seeds a little longer than 1 fine, 
renate-ellipsoid, brown-black, slightly shining. 
Eriostemon secliflorus (Fragm. Phyt. Austr. i. 30; Phebalium glandulosum, Hook, in Mitch. Trop. 
Austr. 199; Ph. sediflorum, F. M. in Transact. Yict. Inst. i. 30) seems merely to differ from E. Iepidotus in 
almost wedge-shaped leaves, which are bluntly denticulated and as well as the branchlets conspicuously 
tubercle d by prominent copious glands. Its leaves are in some instances almost channelled, in others quite 
revolute at the margin. This species inhabits the granitic detritus along* the banks of the Snowy River near 
the Pinch Mountains and the north-western desert of this colony, extending thence to Lake Torrens and 
Lake Alexandrina. Tasmania possesses (in Phebalium Daviesii) a plant very closely allied to E. sediflorus, 
distinguishable only-, according* to Dr. Hooker’s notes (Flor. Tasm. ii. 358), by still narrower leaves, white 
petals and smooth ovaries. South-Western Australia again furnishes an almost conspecific representative in 
Eriostemon tuberculosus, covered like E. sediflorus with granular glands, but seemingly not specifically 
identical on account of showing leaves quite revolute without upward dilatation, an acutely-toothed calyx, 
shorter stamens and scarcely any manifest terminal gland of the anthers. Eriostemon ozothamnoides 
(F. M. Fragm. Phyt. Austr. i. 103; Phebalium ozothamnoides, F. M. in Transact. Yict. Inst. i. 31), from the 
Mitta Mitta, Cabongra and Livingstone River, seems to represent a subalpine variety with obovate-euneate 
leaves, which chang*e their silvery coat soon into a velvet-like tomentum. The specific and perhaps untenable 
boundaries of all these plants have yet to be further traced. 
