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PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO 
[Rutacece. 
being’ deltoid, those alternating' with the petals elongated, linear-subulate or filiform; the stigmas are 
cruciate-divergent and longer than in any other species; less important distinctive characters rest in the 
depressed growth of this plant, in the always erect flowers and in the long-exserted stamens. Still con¬ 
siderable discrepancies in the dentation of the calyx may be noted also in C. Lawrenciana. C. decumbens 
may perhaps successfully be sought for in our Grampians and in the adjacent ranges. 
Correa Iiawrenciana, Hook . Journ. of Bot. i. 254 and ii. 417; Correa ferruginea. Backhouse , in 
Ross’s Hobarton Almanac , 1835, p. 80; Hook. Compan. to the Bot. Mag . i. 276; Hook . Ic. PI. t. 3; Hook. 
Jownud of Bot. ii. 417. 
Shrubby, arborescent; leaves coriaceous, usually large, ovate or oblong-ovate, flat, spreading, above 
smooth; pedicels stout, usually short; flowers solitary, twin, ternate or several cymose; calyx minutely 
rarely long 4-toothed, usually as long as broad; petals flee only at the apex; tube of the corolla pale 
gTeenish-yellow; filaments long-exserted , scarcely dilated at the base ; anthers yellowish-green, about thrice 
as long as broad ; style smooth; stigmas coherent; carpels tomentose, finally glabrescent, ovate-rhomboid; 
valves of the endocarp upwards dilated; seeds dark-brown, somewhat shiningcotyledons nearly as long as 
the radicle. 
Descending bom subalpine elevations along torrents and rivulets and over humid jungle-declivities 
to sheltered umbrageous valleys as low as 1000 feet above the level of the sea, althoug’h never to lowland- 
plains ; observed on the summit of Mount William, in the ravines between Apollo Bay and Cape Otway, 
on the Upper Banvon, on the Upper Yarra, towards the sources of the Buneep River, the Taiwan, the 
Tyres, the Tangil, the King River, on the Buffalo River, the Delatite, the Mitta Mitta, Cabongra, 
Ingegobba, Snowy River, Hume River and on the Upper Genoa River. In Tasmania south as far as 
Southport. 
A tall shrub, assuming in favorable places an arborescent growth, noticed fully 30 feet high in the deep 
morassy forest-glens between Cape Otway and Apollo Bay, always consociated with types of the Tasmanian 
vegetation, but hardly with any exclusive companions of C. speciosa. Branchlets densely tomentose. Leaves 
conspicuously stalked, quite entire, in their ordinary state 2-3 inches long and about 1 inch broad, in sub- 
alpine forms only of half the above dimensions; in luxuriant specimens sometimes dr-5 inches long, and 
proportionately broad, glabrous on both pages or more frequently clothed beneath with a thin grey or pale 
fulvous tomentum, which but in rare instances secedes. Peduncles tomentose, rather short, or J-l inch long 
or sometimes scarcely developed, axillary. Pedicels veiy short or a few lines long, tomentose. Bracteoles 
1-3 lines long, linear-filiform, caducous. Calyx usually 3 lines long and in proportion to its diameter much 
longer than that of the preceding species, usually also remarkably blunt at the base, there even frequently 
impressed-tnmeate, sometimes remarkably turgid and hence ujDward contracted, sometimes again in certain 
varieties (restricted to frequently flooded river-banks) cylindrical-campanulate and then outward green and 
smooth, and protracted into 4 deltoid-subulate teeth of 1—2 lines length, which alternate with the petals; 
in most instances, however, clothed with a dense pale- or dark-brown tomentum, occasionally in subalpine 
specimens hemispherical-cupshaped as in the normal state of C. speciosa; thus the calyx varying in length 
between 1| and 6 lines. Corolla varying between 8 and 18 lines in length, usually less spreading at the 
apex than in any other species, pale greenish-yellow with sometimes brownish tips, outward clothed with a 
more or less velvet-like or pulverulent indumentum, inside smooth. Filaments pale-greenish, finally black- 
purplish, linear-setaceous, glabrous, short- or long-exserted. Anthei’s almost ellipsoid, with short-bilobed 
base, yellow in front, more green at the back, 1—1A line long. Pollen-g-rains ellipsoid, smooth, yellow, with 
three longitudinal slits. Style setaceous, about as long as the longer filaments, pallid-green. Stigmas very 
minute. Hypogynous disk slioi*t, smooth, greenish, with eight undulations. Carpels covered with a finally 
seceding tomentum, livid, 4-5 lines long, tnincated-blunt, otherwise oblique-ovate, longer than the calyx. 
Endocarp pale-yellow; its valves united into a hollow toothless base. Seeds oblique- or truncate-ellipsoid, 
