66 Altred J. Ewart: Contributiones Florae Australiensis. V. 
and the suppression of the subtending scales. Indeed, a few scales are 
sometimes present between the central florets of Helichrysum. 
33. Gilruthia Osborni Ewart and White, l. c., p. 14. — A herb of 1 
to 2 inches, branching at the base, stems woody, and, as well as the 
leaves, covered with soft white hairs. Leaves lanceolar, about !/, cm 
long, woolly on both sides, narrowed at the base, but no distinct petiole, 
obtuse or somewhat pointed, flat or slightly revolute. Heads on short 
pedicels terminal, solitary or more usually in close clusters of three or 
more at the ends of the branches. Innermost bracts twice the length 
of the outermost series, which exceed a millimetre in length, and have 
only few hairs. The inner bracts with a double tuft of woolly hairs on 
the bract, below the tip. — This puzzling little plant was placed by 
Hemsley, at Kew, as near to Calocephalus Sonderi, probably on account 
of the pappus, but the simple heads necessitate its inclusion in the 
Guapholinae, and the other peculiarities raise it to the rank of a new 
genus. — Mt. Malcolm (north of Kalgoorlie), West-Australia, F. Rod- 
way, 123, Nov., 1906. 
34. Grevillea Berryana Ewart and White, |. c., p. 14, pl. VIII. (Pro- 
teaceae Group Cycloptera.) — Shrub up to 2C ft. high. Stems woody and 
slightly glaucous, pubescent when young. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 
exstipulate, 6 to 9 inches long, compound, with 4 to 7 alternately ar- 
ranged segments, the lowest segments 6 to 7 inches, the upper shorter, 
and all coriaceous, rigid, linear, with entire margins. Each segment 
has 3 faint longitudinal grooves on the upper surface, and 2 conspicuous 
grooves on the under surface, which latter are somewhat sparsely pubes- 
cent; the midrib prominent on the under surface. The inflorescence is 
a raceme, the axis of which is 1!/,—3 inches long, generally there are 
several racemes arranged in a panicle. Axis and peduncles are hairy, 
the latter being about one-twelfth inch in length. Flowers small, perianth 
about !/, inch, the tube being slightly hairy outside, and the limb 
densely hairy outside, pale yellow in colour and glabrous inside. Limb 
globular, the segments concave, the tube curved under the limb, the 
segments cohering for a long time after the tube has opened. Anthers 
sessile in the concave lobes of the limb, all 4 perfect and 2-celled, al- 
most globular. Style nearly 1/ inch long, curved, the stigma enclosed 
in the limb of the perianth and laterally situated. Ovary on a long 
stalk, glabrous. Torus small, straight, gland fairly conspicuous, horse- 
shoe shaped. Fruit large, almost spherical, compressed, 1/, to !/, inch 
in diameter, hard and fairly thick-walled, glabrous. Seed single, cordate, 
with a very distinct wing all round. — It differs from G. leucadendron in 
having a hairy inflorescence and perianth, and a laterally placed stigma. 
Pritzel considered it might agree with G. nematophylla, of which he had 
found compound leaved specimens, but the stigma in oblique instead of 
a cone, and the leaves, pedicels, inflorescences and flowers all differ trom 
those of G. stenobotrya F. v. M., and of G. Purdieana Diels. — F. A. 
Rodway, Malcolm, West-Australia, Dec., 1907, no. 321. 
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