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PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO 
[. Buettnmace ®. 
hypogynous ring'. Filaments free, linear-filiform, glabrous, about 1 line long. Anthers elliptic-ovate, erect, 
affixed below the middle of the inner side, at first pale-yellow, soon brown, finally black-purple. Pollen- 
grains ovate, smooth, bursting lengthwise. Style J-f line long, at the base or up to the middle densely 
covered with short white stiff spreading fasciculate hair; its upper joint glabrous, setaceous, usually earlier 
dropping than the lower joint, 'which forms a mucro to the young capsule. Ovary clothed with an indument 
similar to that of the lower joint of the style, trigonous-globular, with three slight longitudinal impressions. 
Capsule of the size of a pea or somewhat longer. Seeds ovate, about 1 line long, nearly black, scantily 
covered with downs. Strophiole digitate, livid, somewhat carnulent and transparent; its lobes linear-filiform, 
blunt; the two inner ones longer than the three exterior ones. Cotyledons roundish, lightly emarginate, 
about as long as the radicle. 
In flower during* the spring. 
The description and plate of Lasiopetalum ferrugineum, published in the Memoires du Museum 
d’Histoire Naturelle, tom. vii. p. 446, tab. 18, accord sufficiently with our South-Eastern Australian plant, 
although Gay states, that the definition and figure given in the Memoires were founded on West Australian 
specimens. But amongst the numerous plants, which our herbarium possesses through Mr. Oldfield’s collec¬ 
tions from the vicinity of the Murchison Paver, where most of the plants noticed at the Baie des Chiens-marins 
reappear, no species exist corresponding to that of Gay; and since neither in any other part of West and 
South-West Australia a Lasiopetalum at all resembling L. ferrugineum occurs, and since further, the other¬ 
wise accurate Gay unhesitatingly quotes the illustration of the truly East Australian plant given in the Bot. 
Mag. t. 1766, as belonging to his plant, it becomes evident that all the quotations in reference to the West 
Australian localities, admitted also by Dr. Steetz in his excellent memoir of Lasiopetalem as correct, are resting 
on errors. Sir Jam. Smith’s definition of the genus was certainly based on our species, when enumerating it 
together with many of its East Australian consociates in the Transactions of the Linnean Society (Vol. iv. 
p. 216). 
Lasiopetalum parviflorum, Budge , in Transact Linn. Soc. x. 297, t. 19, Jig. 2; Gay , in Mem, 
du Museum , vii. p. 447, tab. 19; Steetz, in Lekm. PI. Preiss. ii. 339. 
Leaves alternate, short-stalked, oblong- or broad-linear, entire, flat or at the margin slightly recurved, 
beneath thinly grey-velvetliairy; cymes sliort-pedunculate ; jlomers small , subsessile or short-stalked; segments 
°.f the bracteole almost linear, all shorter than the calyx; lobes oj' the calyx inside almost glabrous , deltoid- 
semilanceolate, outside clothed with grey-brown star-hair; petals glabrous; anthers longer than the filaments, 
opening by terminal pores; style tomentose at the base; capsule three-celled, outside star-hairy, inside smooth. 
On the granitic banks of watercourses at the eastern frontier of Gipps Land; thence extending into 
New South Wales at least as far northward as Botany Bay. 
A shrub from a few to 8 feet high. Leaves 1J—5 inches long, 3—5 lines broad. Calyx usually about 
2 lines long, occasionally, however, 3^1 lines in length, and then with more acuminate lobes. Anthers 
line long. Capsule of the size of a small pea. 
The distinctions of this from the preceding species are so trifling as to render a detailed description 
superfluous* The leaves are usually narrower and the flowers smaller, characters which prove, however, not 
to be permanent; nor appears the style to offer any important notes of discrimination. Thus the principal 
difference which characterized this from the foregoing congener must be sought in the inside smooth calyx, 
unless the seeds, which were unavailable for comparison on this occasion, should exhibit further reliable 
peculiarities. 
Lasiopetalum Baueri, Steetz, in Lelim. PI Preiss. ii. 339. 
Leaves alternate, sliort-stalked, oblong- or broad-linear, entire, recurved or revolute at the margin, 
beneath thinly giev -velutinous; cymes racemose , on conspicuous slender peduncles, fere-flowered} flowers 
small; pedicels as long as or shorter than the flowers; segments of the small bracteole ovate- or oblong- or 
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