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In deep valleys and ravines of tlie Buffalo Mountains, in the gravelly diluvium on the Buffalo River ; 
on the forest slopes of Mount Disappointment. In New South Wales near Parramatta, according 1 to Mr. 
Woolls, and in some other localities. 
A shrub from 1 to a few feet high, of a strict or roundish habit, with the aspect of an Hibhertia. 
Tomentum of the branchlets usually brown, often gTey-black in age. Leaves variable in size, from a few 
lines to 1J inch long and from 2 lines to 1 inch broad, with a cuneate base contracted into the petiole, above 
dark-green and somewhat shining, and less densely than beneath scattered with starry hair. Pedicels from 
2-8 lines long, as well as the flowers rusty tomentose. Bracts and bracteoles, if any, obliterated in the 
tomentum of the flowerstalk. Calyx only about l line long*. Petals lanceolate-ovate, rather acute, sessile, 
smooth inside, usually sulphur-yellow, about 2J lines long, valvate in aestivation. Petaline filaments visibly 
shorter than the sepaline ones; all capillary, yellow. Anthers didymous- or quadrate-ovate, bright-yellow 
or vitellinous, basifixed, about § line long 1 , with lateral dehiscence, terminated by a very minute gland. Style 
pale, capillary, about 1 line long. Stigma green, much thicker than the style, about J line long, somewhat 
capitate, with 5 light furrows and a slightly and irregularly lobed base. Ovaries green. Carpels 5 or by 
abortion less, free, rather compressed, almost rhomboid, upward dilated, beaked by a broad spreading acumen, 
1 | line long. Placental membrane § line long, quadrate, with a minute acumen. Valves of the endocarp 
remarkably dilated at the apex, producing at their junction a minute deltoid ascending tooth. Seeds black, 
oblique-ellipsoid, 1 line long 1 . 
This plant bears close affinity not only to the following species, but also to the rare South-Western 
Australian Eriostemon grandiflorus, which according to Hooker’s excellent plate (Icon. Plant. 724) is recog¬ 
nized from this and every other species of the genus by a double number of stamens; the style is moreover 
longer than in E. comeifolius ; the stigma is less capitate and more lobed ; the petals are larger and blunt, 
whilst the young fruit consists seemingly only of three carpels, which are not beaked. In the remarkable 
minuteness of the calyx both agree with Eriostemon Hookerii (Eragm. Phytogr Austr. i. 104) and establish 
a transit to the following congener, in which the calyx becomes quite obliterated. 
Eriostemon pleurandroides, F. M. Fragm . Phytogr . Austr. i. 106 ; Asterolasia phebalioides, 
F. M. in Transact . Phil . Soc. Viet. i. 10. 
Quite starry-tomentose; leaves herbaceous , chiefly fasciculate-crowded, sessile, oblong- or obcordate- 
(yuneate, notched at the apex, flat at the margin; flowers rather large, terminal, solitary, sessile; calyx 
obliterated ,* petals golden-yellow, outside short-tomentose, hardly longer than the sepaline stamens; filaments 
glabrous; anthers exappendiculate, twice as long as broad, style below pubescent; stigmas free, elongated, 
filiform, papillose, recurved; carpels tomentose, blunt, twice or three times shorter than the petals; valves 
of the endocarp toothless; placental membrane renate-cordate, more than half as long as the seed; testa of 
the seed but little shining. 
On arid stony slopes of the Serra and Victoria Ranges, especially on Mount Sturgeon and Mount 
Abrupt. 
A rather dwarf bush, greatly resembling certain Hibbertise and Pleurandree, never above 3 feet high 
and usually lower, sometimes with simple stem, usually simply branded, less frequently with repeated 
ramifications. Branches as well as the usually short branchlets clothed with a dense brownish-grey finally 
blackish tomentum. Leaves closely scattered along the branches, but forming tufts at the summits of the 
ramifications, and thus a spurious involucre to the terminal flowers, usually from 3-6 lines long, above the 
middle 2-3 lines broad, densely tomentose on both pages, at last calvescent on the surface, and then 
somewhat tuberculate-scabrous, flat or by somewhat connivent upper edges concave, sometimes one or the 
other diminutive leaf forming bracts. Bracteoles oblong-linear or rarely linear-subulate, in most cases 
wanting. Petals 5 rarely 6, longer than the floral leaves, usually from 4-6 lines long, ovate-lanceolate, 
minutely acuminate, of tender substance, in preeflorescence valvate, soon dropping. Filaments yellow, 10 
