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PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO 
[. Uutacea . 
only |-1 line broad, in age occasionally attaining a somewhat greater length and width, hispidulous by 
either short and stellate or hy longer scattered deciduous hairs on both pages, scabrous on the surface, hardly 
paler beneath, entire at the margin, unless apparently denticulated by minute protuberances; their consistence 
more herbaceous than coriaceous. Umbels with several or many flowers, now and then by shortened terminal 
branchlets spuriously compound. Pedicels often about 1 line long, hairy, bearing a basal linear bract and 
two opposite likewise downy bracteoles, which are from 1-2 lines long. Length of the calyx-segments also 
1-2 lines. Flowers but slightly fragrant. Petals 3-4 lines long, about 1 line broad, one-nerved, somewhat 
dotted, not rarely tinged red at the back, carrying- also a few scattered dorsal hairs. Petaline filaments 
shorter than the sepaline ones, all yellow, deciduous 5 the latter attaining a length of 4 J lines. Anthers 
saturated-yellow, about 1 line long, almost ellipsoid, with a slight basal and terminal emarginature and 
with longitudinal introrse dehiscence. Pollen-grains smooth, ellipsoid, bursting lengthwise. Style shorter 
than the filaments, formed by the twisted coalescence of five, narrowed at the apex. Ovaries'bearing a 
subulate-cylindrical rostrum, which is rather more than 1 line long, and clothed with white soft spreading 
hair. Ovules geminate. Carpels as yet unknown. 
This species is in many respects allied to Eriostemon capitatus, which, however, belongs to the following 
section. It has been identified with Sieber’s plant by Sir Will. Hooker (Conf. Ivew. Misc. viii. 37). Chorilama 
forms a section of Eriostemon intermediate between Chorikenopsis and Asterolasia. The foliage and the 
arrangement of flowers of E. quercifolius, the only species referable to Chorilama, cannot beseemed of 
sufficient importance to vindicate the generic distinction of that plant, both characters being unsupported 
by floral differences and exhibit only extreme aberration from the variable types of the genus. The inflore¬ 
scence of Chorilama reminds of certain Lasiopetala (for instance, L. dasypliyllum and L. confertiflonim), 
and the value of this note is invalidated by the diversity of inflorescence in Lasiopetalum itself. But this 
inflorescence and the habitual resemblance of Chorilama with Thomasia, Corethrostylis and other lasiope- 
taleous genera induced the author of this work to assign in the First General Report on the Plants of 
Victoria, 1853, p. 10 , to Tremandreae a place intermediate between Rutacete and Buettneriacem, and the 
correctness of tins view, as far as the alliance of Lasiopetale® and Tremandrea> is concerned/has been 
simultaneously borne out by Steetz in his excellent memoir on the affinities of the former tribe of plants. In 
its ordinary states Eriostemon quercifolius shows rather coriaceous leaves; but specimens gathered in moist 
valleys, where the plant attains the height of 25 and 30 feet, show, analogous to those of Cornea, herbaceous 
leaves, whilst we observe the flowers to be almost green. 
Sect. YI. Asterolasia. 
Leaves generally star-hairy. Flowers solitary, sessile or capitate or umbellate. Calyx very small 
or obliterated. Petals yellow, rarely white, valvate in aestivation. Filaments usually smooth. Anthers 
erect. Stigmas free and filiform or clavate, or coalescent. Carpels oftener blunt than rostrate. 
j. «i,uauiuu lui ictriiuinuii, 
Eriostemon corraeifolius, F. M. Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. i. 10 
de Just, in Mem. Soc. el Ilist. Nat. Paris, ii. 1. 10; Ph. asteriscophorum, F. M. in Transact. Viet. Inst. i. 
p. 31. 
ran chiefs terete, tomentose; leaves herbaceous, lanceolate- or obovatc-oblong, toothless, conspicuously 
stalked, above scantily hairy or nearly smooth, beneath pale and starry tomentose, at the margin flat; umbels 
axi ary and terminal, sessile, quite tomentose, few-flowered, rarely reduced to one flower; pedicels as long as 
or onger than the flower; calyx exceedingly small, acutely toothed; petals outside tomentose, inside yellow 
or w ite, longer than the glabrous filaments; anthers exappendiculate; style short, glabrous; stigmas stout, 
united into a head; carpels tomentose, rostrate; seeds rather shining, smooth. 
