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Brio stem on ovatifolius, F. 31. Fragm. Pliytogr. Austr. i. 103; Phebalium ovatifolium, F. 31. in 
Transact. Phil. Society of Victoria , i. 99. 
Shrubby; branchlets somewhat angular; leaves thichly coriaceous, ovate , blunt, entire, flat, short- 
stalked, above smooth, beneath together with the branchlets peduncles and pedicels lepidote; peduncles 
axillary, one-flowered or bearing a few-flowered coiymb, considerably shorter than the leaves; bracts ovate , 
foliaceous ; petals white, scaleless, much longer than the triangular glabrous lobes of the calyx, little longer 
than the glabrous filaments, deciduous; anthers blunt, versatile; style rather long, glabrous; stigmas 
coherent; ovaries lepidote ; carpels small, calvescent, rhomboid, with a very minute lateral beak; valves of 
the endocarp forming at the junction a small deltoid tooth; placental membrane subcordate; seeds brown- 
black, shining, slightly tuberculed; radicle three times as long as the cotyledons. 
In some of the alpine regions of the Munyang Mountains abundant; forming also isolated patches of 
scrub amongst quartz rocks between Mount Wellington and Haidinger Eange towards the sources of the 
Macallister Elver. 
A good-sized, wide, compact bush of pretty appearance, towards the glacier region dwarf, with a 
foliage a good deal like English Box. Leaves occasionally 1 inch long, sometimes slightly retuse, 
sometimes a little pointed, dark-green and very shining*, and showing subtile oildots above but no superficial 
veins, beneath bearing silvery scales, which at first exhibit a rusty hue, but become grey in Age. Bracts 
usually alternating, 1-2 lines long, forming* diminutive leaves. Bracteoles deciduous. Pedicels, when present, 
about as long as the flowers. Calyx hardly 1 line long; its lobes usually devoid of scales, deltoid-lanceolate. 
Petals 2-2 J fines long, ovate, subsessile, somewhat pointed, membranous, especially at the margin, imbri- 
cative in praeflorescence, outside tinged with red. Eilaments linear-subulate. Anthers J—J fine long. 
Pollen-grains oval, smooth, bursting lengthwise. Style about 1\ fine long, filiform, consisting of the twisted 
coalescence of five.' Carpels 1J-2 lines long, when old quite denuded of their scales. Endocarp livid. Seeds 
about 1 fine long, oblique-ovate. Embryo as long as the albumen, cylindrical and straight. 
This plant stands in close relation to Eriostemon lepidotus and E. squameus. 
In flower towards the latter part of spring and in the beginning of summer, according to elevation. 
Sect. Y. ChobiLjENopsis. 
Leaves scabrous-hairy. Umbels head-like. Segments of the calyx linear. Petals yellow, valvate 
in aestivation. Filaments glabrous, longer than the corolla. Anthers versatile, without terminal gland 
or appendage. Stigmas minute, coalescent. Carpels long-rostrate. 
Eriostemon pkylicoides, I. 31. Fragm. Pliytogr. Austr. i. 107; Phebalium diosmeum, Adr. de 
Juss. in 31em. Soc. cV Hist. Nat. Paris, ii. 1.11, fig. 3; P. phylicoides, Sieb. in Spreng. Syst. Veg. cur. post, 
p. 164; Chorilsena angustifolia, F. 31. in Transact. Phil. Soc. Viet. i. 10. 
Branchlets downy; leaves liispidulous, linear or oblong-linear, blunt, almost sessile, revolute at the 
margin; fowers crowded, into terminal head-like sessile umbels; bracteoles linear-filiform; calyx-segments of 
half or one-third the length of the corolla, semilanceolate or subulate-linear, about as long as the pedicel, 
downy; petals yellow, almost glabrous, lanceolate, tapering at the base; filaments capillary, conspicuously 
exserted, glabrous; anthers exappendiculate, versatile; style setaceous, glabrous; stigmas very minute, 
coherent; ovaries terminated by a long narrow downy appendage. 
On low sandy heath-ridges near Mount Imlay here and there abundant; also in New South Wales in 
the Argyle county. 
An erect, showy, usually strict-growing bush, a few feet high, hardly ever exceeding 5 feet in height, 
with rather slender terete stems and branches. The latter less densely covered with white spreading hair 
than the branchlets. Leaves copious, usually from J-§ inch long, and in consequence of the revolute margin 
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