broad, with a narrow fi-ee edge. Stigmas three.— New Zealand specimens are apetalous, but otherwise nndistin-
guishable from Tasmanian.
Gen. I I . C R Y P T A N D R A , Sm.
F lores bracteolati, con ge sti. Calyc is tubus conicus, campanulatus v . cylindricus, ovario accretus ;
limbi lob is 5 , acutis, in tu s carinatis. F e ta la 5 , parva, cucullata, persistentia. S tam in a 5 , petalis inclusa.
Ovarium semi-inferum, apice villosum, 8 -loculate, ovulis lo cu lis solitariis erectis. S ty lu s simplex ; stigmate
simplici V. S-lobo. Capsula calyce e t corolla persistente terminata, 8 -loculai-is, 3-cocca, coc cis iudehiscentibus
V. 2 -valvib u s. Semen erectum, oblongum, obtuse trigono-compressum j te sta lævi, coriacea. Albumen
carnosum. Cotyledones magnæ, oblongæ ; ra d icu la brevi, infera.— Suffrutices p le rum qu e p a r v i /o l i i ; foliis
g la b ris, ymbescentibus la n a tisv e ; floribus so lita r iis aggregatisve, squamis im b rica tis ca ly cu la tis.
I have had great difficulty in disposing o f the species o f the curious and difficult tribe of Australian Rhamneoi,
to which Cryptandra, Trymalium, Spyridium, and Pomadem-is all belong ; for though placed under two sections by
Reisseker, these are all undoubtedly closely-allied genera. In the first place, I have retained under Pomaderris only
those species which agree with the original P . elliptica, in having no bracts to tbe flowers, stamens longer than the
petals, and the cocci indehiscent, but -with a large foramen on tbeir ventral face. I f Trymalium o f Fenzl is to be
kept distinct fi-om these, it may be distinguished by the iudehiscent imperforate cocci, for I cannot find any small
foramen such as is alluded to by tbat careful author, except that at the base of the coccus, where it is inserted
into the cavity of the calj-x ; the cocci are indeed perfectly similar to those of most Crypiandroe. Under Cryptandra
I place a number o f plants differing much in habit and floral characters, but wliich aU agree in having bracteate
flowers, stamens concealed within tbe petals, and imperforate cocci tbat either deliisce by the ventral suture, or, like
those of Tiymalium, are altogether imperforate and indehiscent. Spyridium (Fenzl) I include in the same genus, its
cocci being indehiscent, flowers bracteate, and stamens concealed in tbe petals, and there being no other character by
which it may be distinguished from many other Cryptandræ. The disc is as vai-iablc in tbis genus as in Trymalium
and Pomaderris, being in some eases (C. obovata) extremely thick, swollen, and completely shutting up the throat
of the calyx, aUoiving a passage for the style only ; in others, again, the vertex o f the ovary projects beyond the
disc.
Woolly or tomentose shimbs, with alternate stipulate leaves and minute flowers, generally densely aggregated
into capitula formed of many cymes -with short branches.— Flowers surrounded with brown chartaceous bracts,
which are reduced stipules of undeveloped leaves. Calyx-tube villous, tomentose, or pubescent, campanulate, tu bular,
funnel-shaped, or broadly obconic ; lobes five, keeled inside. P etals five, minute, concave, sessile or clawed.
Stamens small, included within the petals ; filaments incurved. Disc very variable in size and relative position.
Ovary half-inferior, its apex generaUy viUous and exposed beyond tbe disc, three-ceUed ; cells with one erect ovule,
Style short or long. Stigma three-lobed. Fruit obovoid, surroimded with the membranous or cmstaceous semiadherent
calyx, and persistent petals and stamens, o f three cocci, which separate from one another and the calyx.
Cocci dorsaUy convex and compressed, ventral surface slightly proininent and keeled, indehiscent or dehiscing down
the mesial line intemaUy, membranous, coriaceous, or crustaceous. Seed one, erect, compressed, lenticular ;
testa smooth, crustaceous or coriaceous. Arillus short, lobed (rarely none?). Albumen fleshy, Embryo in the
axis o f the albumen. Cotyledons large, paraUel, oblong ; radicle short. (Name from Kpvirros, hidden, and avr¡p, a
stamen ; in aUusion to the concealed stamens.)
The subgenera of Cryptandra which I have proposed cannot be considered estabUsbed tiU aU the AustraUan
species (of wbich there are veiy many) are examined. They are—
§ I. Flowers aggregated in abbreviated cymes. Calyx broadly obconic; tube not produced much, if at aU, beyond
the ovary. Cocci coriaceous or membranous, indehiscent, or perhaps dehiscing in a few species along the
ventral suture.— To this belong the majority of the Tasmanian species : it is indeed quite a Southern form.
About twenty species are known, five or six from South-west, eight or ten from South-east AustraUa. Tliis
subgenus varies exceedingly in habit, breadth of leaves, in the amount o f composition of tlie cyme, denseness
o f the inflorescence, number of bracts, presence or absence of wliite tomentose leaves subtending the
cymes, and thickness, etc., of the disc.— Species 1 - 9 .
§ II. Flowers solitary, or nearly so. Calyx broadly campanulate, tube produced far beyond the ovary. Cocci
coriaceous, deliiscing along the ventral suture.— To this belong C. pyramidalis and C. alpina of Tasmania,
besides about six Swau River and other Western extratropical species, and as many New South Wales and
South-eastern AustraUan ones.— Species 10, 11.
§ I I I . This section, or probably genus, is at once distinguished by the tubular infundibuliform calyx, its tube
produced far beyond the smaU ovary, and the stamens canied up the throat of the coroUa a long way
above the disc. Cocci ci-ustaceous, bivalved.— In habit this entirely coriesponds ivith many species of
I know o f only one species.— Species 1 2 ,
§ I. Flores glomerati, capitati. Calycis obconici tubus ultra ovarium non productus. Ovarium fe r e inferum,
annuio epigyno circumdatum.
1. Cryptandra obcordata (Hook, fli.) j procumbens, caulibus ramisque elongatis virgatis prostratis,
ramulis foliosis furfuraceo-pubei-ulis, foliis breve petiolatis obovato-obcordatis v. truncatis e t retusis supra
medium 1 - 2 -d entatis v . integerrimis supra glabris su b tu s pallidis dense pubescentibus marginibus recurvis,
cymis iu capitula multiflora conge stis, squamulis extimis pubescentibus interioribus scariosis m argine v illosis,
cocc is puberulis indehisceutibus. [Gunn, 1 2 4 9 .)
H a b . Trap hills on th e banks o f th e Tamar; also abundant on th e Asbestos HiUs, Gunn.— (El. Oct.)
Forming large patches, 4 - 6 feet in diameter, appressed to the ground.— Branches terete, slender, very long,
interlacing; branchlets leafy, covered with villous pubescence at tbe tips, and stellate pubescence lower doum.
Leaves inch long, on short, slender petioles, broadly obovate, obcordate, or truncate, and deeply emarginate or
retuse, sometimes bifid at the apex, usuaUy w ith one or two strong marginal teeth ; margins recurved ; upper surface
bright green, glabrous, under pale, densely pubescent with viUous hairs, pilose along the midiib. Stipules broadly
ovate, ivith acuminate tips, Flowers smaU, in crowded capitula subtended by a few smaU leaves and suiToimded
by sbcatliing broivn searious bracts ivith inUous margins ; bracts blunt, outer pubescent at the back. Calyx-tube
obconical. Cocci chartaceous, pubescent, compressed from back to front, keeled in front, obovate-oblong, apparently
quite indehiscent. Seed conformable to tbe coccus, with a coi-iaceous sliining testa.
2 . Cryptandra vexillifera (Hook. Jouxn. B o t. i. 2 5 7 ) ; erecta v . prostrata, ramosa, ramis ramulisque
virgatis pubescentibus, foliis lineari-oblongis lanceolatisve mucronatis acuminatisve marginibus rev
olutis superne canaliculatis subtus albo-pubescentibus, capitulis terminalibus densifloris foliis 1 - 2 longe
petiolatis e llipticis albis subtensis, floribus minutissimis late obconicis, fructu calyce indéhiscente te cto, coccis
membranaceis la te ovatis iudehiscentibus. [Gunn, 1 6 , 7 9 2 .)
H a b . Nor thern parts o f th e I sla n d ; Woolnorth, Launceston, P o r t Dalrymple, etc ., L awrence, Gunn.
(El. th roughout the year.)
D i s t e i b . South-eastern Australia.
A stragglhig imdershrab, with prostrate or erect branches, nearly a foot \\\g\i.— Branchlets slender, villous
with rufous or white doiiTi, Leaves scattered, on slender short petioles - |-1 inch long, rigid and coriaceous, linear-
or oblong-lanceolate, rarely elliptical, acumiuate or mucronate, margms revolute ; upper surface polished, with a
deep central groove, under densely covered with white or red down, raidi-ib generally ferruginous. Reads of
flowers as large as a peppercorn, terminal, brown fi-om the number of closely imbricating searious short orbicular
bracts, subtended by one or two petiolate broad downy white leaves. Flowers very numerous aud minute. Calyx
broadly obconic, with a short tube and five spreading segments, rillous externally. Stamens included in the cuciil