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imbricatis lanceolatis acutis dorso acute carinatis glandulis perpaucis 



insper^is ; Jloribus in axillis snperioribus solitariis subse^silibus ; Lracteolis 

 medium usque oonnatis obtusiis.^imis ; caltjcis tube bracteolas facile superante 

 superne anguste cyliiiJrico cavoque diiiiidio inf. fu^iEormi lobis parvis 

 orbicularibus sat longe aristatis ; petalls lanceolatis acutiuscnlis stamina 

 excetlentibus; staminibus ultra 25; stijlo inferne calyce incluso. 



North Australia, Victoria River; Bfjnoe. 



Folia 1-1*5 ram, long. Bracteolpe 4 mm., pedicelli 1 mm. long. 



Cal 



vx 



in toto 8 mm. long. ; p:irs libera 4 x C mm. ; pars inf. juxta medium fere 

 1 mm.lai.; lobi 1'5 X I'Snim.; arista 7 mm. long. Petala C mm,, filamenta 

 4 mm. 5 stylus 8'5 niuj. long. 



This has tlic leaves of C coiiferta^ A. Ciinn., but the narrow calyx-tube 



removes it from that and neighbouring specie 

 C. Oldjleldii^ Benth. 



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The affinity is with 



Calythkix MiTCHELLii, sp. nov. Frutlculus^ copiose ramosus, glaber ; 

 ramxdis ultimis satis intricatis bene foliosis ; foliis parvulis subteretibus 



(doi-so carinulatis) oblongis 



obtusis glandulis 



perpaucis obsitis ; flovUnts 



subsessilibus ex axillis sunimis oriundis; hradeolis calyce multo hrevioribus 

 circa usque medium connatis obtusissimis ; calycls tubo cjlindrico superne 

 cavo longltrosum striate lobis subrhombeis in aristam sese duplo excedcnteni 

 extenuatis ; petalis oblongo-lanceolatis stamina subxquantibus ; staminibus 

 circa 12 ? ; sttjlo inferne calj'ce incluso usque ad phicentam continue. 



Queensland, near Mt, Faraday ; Mitchell, 394. 



Folia 1*5 mm. long.^ in sicco griseo-viridia. Pedicelli tegre 1 mm. long. 

 Calyx G'5 mm. long., '6 mm. lat. ; pars inf. 3 mm.^ pars sup. 3'5 mm. long.; 

 lobi 2 mm.; arista 4 mm. long, Fetala 3*5 mm. long. Stamina summuni 

 circa 3 mm. lonii\ 



Near the Northern C. micropliylla^ A. Cunn., hut larger in the foliage 

 with obtuse not acute bracteoles^ shorter calyx, and quite different petals 

 and stamens. Under the date Oct. 9tb, Mitchell ("^Trop. Australia,' p. 345) 

 alludes to this plant in the following words i '* A small shrub grew on the 

 roclvs, a pretty little Cahjthrix near C imcrophyUa^ A. Cunn. (from Port 

 Essington and Melville Island) ; hut tbe branches with their leaves are 

 more stout and the bracts more obtuse. Sir W. Hooker supposes it to be 



a new species. 



In the Kew herbarium this is written up as " C. microphylla, A. Cunn./' 

 thoudi left unnoticed in Fl. Austral, iii. 49. The foliage of the two is at 

 once seen to be quite different. 



C. megaphylla^ F. Muell. N. Australiuj Victoria River; Bynoe. Except 

 for the slightly narrower leaves agrees well with the specimen of this at 

 Kew. 



