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Leaves on short petioles, lanceolate- or broad-ovate, seldom narrow-lanceolate, entire, often acuminate, 
spreading-nerved, conspicuously veined, flat or revolute at the margin, above glabrous, beneath as well as 
the Iranchlets and pedicels rusty-downy or tomentose , seldom quite smooth; umbels or corymbs terminal, 
usually simple; sepals slightly glandulo us-downy, free, together with the bracteoles very acute; petals yellow, 
narrow oblong-spathulate, blunt, high-coherent; anthers about half as long as the filaments; ovary tomentose; 
capsule turgid, 2-3-valved; valves lignous-coriaceous, outside brown-black and imperfectly rusty-downy, 
inside yellow; funicles partially as long the garnet-colored seeds. 
On lightly-timbered undulations and ridges along the south-eastern boundary line of Gipps Land; 
thence penetrating northward to the vicinity of Moreton Bay, ascending to the Blue Mountains. 
A shrub from several to many feet high, attaining in favorable sheltered forest-ravines the size of a 
small tree. Branches and branchlets cylindrical, usually only towards the summit leafy, bearing often along 
their lower part some scattered linear-subulate bract-like scales of a few lines length. Leaves varying, 
according to the locality of the plant, much in texture and size, sometimes more chartaceous, sometimes 
thickly coriaceous, from 2—7 inches long*, from 1-2 \ inches broad, not rarely at the margin undulate, above by 
the impression of the nerves and veins somewhat wrinkled, dark-green and when fresh shining, beneath paler 
and clothed with more or less brown or gTey secedent crisp downs. Umbels short- seldom long-pedunculate 
or sessile, consisting of few or many, never however very numerous, flowers. Peduncles provided with 
several scattered lanceolate- or linear-subulate finally delapsing outside tomentose bracts of a few lines length. 
Pedicels 4-8 lines long, oppressed- and soft-hairy. Bracteoles solitary at the base of the pedicels, keeled, 
short- and somewhat glandulous-downy, 2-5 lines long*, deciduous. Flowers at least before expansion 
nodding or cernuous. Sepals remarkably variable in size, from 1J-3A lines long, brownish, from a gradually 
dilated and imbricate base lanceolate or subulate-lanceolate, strongly one-nerved, sparingly or hardly long- 
downy, but always conspersed with minute gland-bearing hair. Petals glabrous, finely three-nerved, from 
4-8 lines long, coherent to at least two-thirds their length into a broad- or campanulate-cylindrical tube, 
reflexed at the summit. Filaments free, linear-filiform, smooth, 2-3 \ lines long. Anthers about 1 line long, 
narrow oblong-sagittate, golden-yellow. Pollen-grains smooth, ellipsoid, bursting lengthwise, pale-yellow. 
Ovary closely invested with soft accumbent grey-brown hair. Style glabrous, shorter than the filaments, 
li_oi p nes long. Stigma depressed, almost orbicular, finally J a line broad. Capsules on stout pedicels, 
J-l inch long, verging into a more globular or more ovate form, pointed at the summit by the persistent 
style. Valves in age fully expanding, outside rough, inside with a bright yellow lustre. Placental ridge 
thick and prominent. Funicles subulate, rigid, yellow. Seeds 1-1 £ line long, outside oily-viscous, irregularly 
coherent, angular-globose, numerous. 
Rhytidosporum procumbens — p. 75. 
Ascending to the alpine summits of the Bog’ong* Range; frequent towards Cape Howe and Mount 
Imlay. 
Cheiranthera linearis — p. 76, 
Near the River Severn in New England. A curious variety with twisted climbing stems, more mucro- 
nate almost semiterete leaves and solitary flowers, was discovered by Mr. F. Waterhouse in Kangaroo Island. 
This last-mentioned plant may possibly be a distinct species, its fruit not being known. 
Billardiera longiflora — p. 78. 
On the Baw Baw Mountains. Advancing at least as far as Twofold Bay. 
The author has failed to identify the Campylanthera ericoides (Lindl. in Mitchell’s Eastern Australia, 
ii. 275), found Sept. 1836, by Sir Th. Mitchell during his discovery-journey through our territory. According 
to the brief record in Mitchell’s Journal it was collected on the basaltic plains near Mount Greenock, at the 
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