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PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO 
[Putacece. 
rarely 9 or 12, linear-capillary; the petaline ones considerably shorter than the rest. Anthers about § line 
long*, quadrate-oval, with light terminal and basal emarginature, erect, outside bright- inside pale-yellow, 
with marginal dehiscence. Pollen-grains oval, smooth, with longitudinal slit. Ovaries greyish-tomentose. 
Styles 5 rarely 6, yellowish, about 2 hues long, united into one except at the apex, whence they pass into 
more or less uncinate above and at the margin papilliferous stigmas of about 1-1J line length. Carpels 
obovate-rhomboid, considerably compressed, at the commissural angle denuded of indument, 1J-2 lines long. 
Valves of the endocarp pale-yellow, united into a concave base, not so deeply excised at their margin as in 
many other species. Placental membrane verging somewhat into a crescent, nearly 1 line broad, pale. Seeds 
ovate and slightly kidney-shaped, brown-black, smooth, 1-1 § line long. Embryo not yet observed in an 
unshrivelled state. 
Comparison of diagnosis and description will point out the distinction of this fine and well-marked 
plant from Eriostemon corrseifolius, to which it bears some external resemblance. 
In flower during the spring. 
Eriostemon trymalioides, F. M. Fragm. Pliytogr. Austr. i. 106; Asterolasia trymalioides, F. M. 
in Transact . Phil. Soc. Viet . i. 10. 
Branches numerous, starry-tomentose; leaves rather small, thick-coriaceous, mostly crowded, stalked, 
blunt, ovate or orbicular- or oblong-ovate, revolute at the margin, above hairy-scabrous and calvescent, 
beneath tomentose; flowers terminal, solitary, sessile; calyx deeply and acutely toothed, membranous or 
imperfectly developed; petals yellow, outside partially tomentellous, hardly as long as the sepaline stamens; 
filaments glabrous; anthers exappendiculate, less than twice as long as broad; style glabrous; stigmas 
clavate, free, reflexed; carpels tomentellous, blunt; valves of the endocarp toothless; placental membrane 
cordate, half as long as the seed; testa of the seed shining. 
In the higher tracts of the Australian Alps by no means rare, not descending to an elevation below 
5000 feet, extending from the Munyang Mountains to the Baw Baw Ranges. In New South Wales on 
Mount Kosciusko. 
A stout amply branched bush of low stature, occasionally several feet high, resembling when out of 
flower some Trymalia. Branches and branchlets terete, clothed with a brown-grey at first ferruginous at 
last secedent tomentum. Leaves at the extremities of the branchlets most crowded and here but short-stalked, 
at the lower and lowest part of the branchlets and especially at the division of the latter often much longer 
stalked, all blunt, usually from 2-4 lines long and from 1|—2 lines broad, above in age shining, beneath 
covered with grey-ferruginous star-hair; the inner floral leaves passing into bracts. Bracteoles membranous, 
almost scanous, of irregular form and position, ovate or lanceolate, or semiovate or oblong, 1-2 lines long, 
more oi less hairy at the back, sometimes foliaceous at the tip. Flowers half buried in leaves. Calyx about 
1 line long, membranous, usually -almost glabrous, deeply divided into 5 rather unequal deltoid teeth, of 
which occasionally one or the other is transformed into a bracteole or obliterated. Petals about 3 lines long, 
lanceolate-ovate, acutish, with a lightly prominent middle-nerve, valvate in estivation, finally deciduous. 
Filaments yellow, capillar-subulate. Anthers J-g line long, at first cordate-roundish and saturated yellow, 
bursting at the margin, more oval in age and pallescent. Style 1 line, finally l±-2 lines, long. Stigmas first 
green, then yellow, hardly longer than h line, quite turned downward, forming a peltate head, outward 
papillose, beneath smooth. Carpels 2 lines long, considerably compressed, rhombeo-deltoid. Valves of the 
endocaip pale-yellow, united into a basal cavity, upwards much dilated. Placental membrane with a deep 
notch. Seeds hardly longer than I line, brown-black, oblique ellipsoid, smooth. 
The definition of the genus Asterolasia, offered in the Phil. Transactions, was founded on an analysis 
of imperfect flowers, whence the floral envelopes received a wrong interpretation. 
In flower late in the spring.. 
