Buettneriacea.] 
THE COLONY OE VICTORIA. 
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linear-lanceolate, all considerably shorter than the calyx ; lobes of the calyx inside slightly tomentose , semi- 
lanceolate-deltoid, outside clothed with brown-grey star-hair ; petals glabrous; anthers longer than the 
filaments, opening by terminal pores; style glabrous or below scantily downy, nearly as long as the anthers; 
ovary grey-tomentose; capsule three-celled, outside glabrescent, inside at the axis downy; longer lobes of 
strophiole half or less than half as long as the seed. 
In the Murray desert; also although rarely in the sandy scrub at the cliff beyond Brighton. In South 
Australia not rare in sandy ridges from the Murray to St. Vincent’s Gulf, Kangaroo Island and Spencer’s 
Gulf. In New South Wales along the Lower Darling and Murmmbidgee. 
An amply expanding shrub, a few feet in height. Leaves usually from 1-2 J inches long, l|-4 lines 
broad, above very thinly grey-downy, glabrescent, blunt at the base and apex; the tomentum of the lower 
page sometimes rust-brown. Peduncles decurved, measuring from the base to the commencement of pedicels 
inch, together with the latter very thinly grey-downy. Cymes occasionally reduced to two flowers, 
somewhat fragrant. Bracts linear, scattered, about 1 line sometimes 2 lines long. Lateral lobes of the 
bracteoles about 1 line long, middle one about 1J line. Calyx about lines long, clothed outside with 
longer or shorter more or less gland-bearing hair, of more grey than brown color, inside when fresh of a 
whitish or purplish color. Petals minute, black-purple. Anthers brown-red, about § line long, with white 
apex, somewhat oblong and connivent. Style subulate, often bearded at the base. Capsule of the size of a 
pea, trigastrous, outward scattered or imperfectly star-hairy. Valves almost crustaceous. Seeds hardly 1 
line long. Strophiole fulvous at the base; its lobes pale; the outer ones very short or obliterated. 
L. stelligerum (Turcz. in Bullet, de la Societe Imperiale des Natural, de Moscou, 1852), a Western 
Australian plant, seems, to judge by its description, closely allied to L. Baueri. 
Xiasiopetalum Behrii, F. M. in Tmnsact . Phil . Soc . Viet. i. p. 36. 
Leaves alternate, elliptical- or narrow-oblong*, entire, flat or lightly recurved at the margin, beneath 
thinly velutinous; cymes few-flowered, on peduncles of moderate length; flowers rather large , on conspicicous 
pedicels; segments of the bracteole linear- or lanceolate-oblong*, considerably shorter than the calyx; lobes of 
the calyx inside glabrous , semilanceolate-ovate, outside g*rey-velutinous; petals smooth; anthers longer than 
the filaments, opening by terminal pores; style hardly as long as the anthers, glabrous; ovary densely covered 
with a short white tomentum; capsule tliree-celled, outside starry grey-velutinous, inside at the axis scantily 
hairy; longer lobes of the strophiole less than half as long as the seeds. 
In the north-western desert-tract of the Colony of Victoria; thence extending to Kangaroo Island, to 
the eastern part of the Great Australian Bight, to Lake Torrens, to the Darling Biver and to the Murrum- 
bidgee. 
An erect or diffused shrub, a few or several feet high. Branchlets and the low r er page of the leaves 
covered with dense very short star-hair, w r hich change their color from rust-brown to grey. Petioles mostly 
from 3-6 lines long*. Leaves thick-coriaceous, usually 1|-3 inches long, 3-6 lines broad, often blunt as well 
at the apex as at the base, casually ovate or much elongated, always 'with a stout beneath prominent midrib, 
somewhat wrinkled above by the spreading* lateral nerves, often bent downward, at the surface quickly 
glabrescent. General peduncle measuring usually |-I inch; the pedicels 1J-4 lines long*. Segments of the 
bracteole 1J-2 lines long*. Blowers cernuous or pendent, slightly fragrant. Calyx 4 lines long, inside whitish 
when fresh, but greenish at the base. Petals orbicular- or cuneate-obcordate, J-i line long. Anthers linear- 
oblong, attenuated towards the apex, purplish-black, somewhat shining, about 1 line long*. Filaments but 
little extending beyond the base of the anther. Style nearly of the length of the anthers, setaceous, with 
exception of the base smooth. Capsule measuring about 2\ lines, sphceroid, three-furrowed. Seeds 1 or 2 
in each cell, ovate, dark-brown, finally almost black, 1 line long, slightly downy. 
Plate III. 1, back view of a flower; 2, front view of flower; 3, side view of flower; 4, fruit; 5, petals; 
6, stamens; 7, pollen-gTains, dry; 8, pollen-grains, moist; 9, seeds; 10, 11 and 12, sections of seeds. 
