176 Alfred J. Ewart: Contributiones Florae Australiensis. VII. 
shortly petiolate, entire margins, alternate; like the stem, covered thickly 
with white, felt-like hairs, midrib hardly visible on the under surface, 
vertical, and with a palisade layer on both surfaces. Pedicels 3—6 lines 
long, and covered with brown, felt-like hairs. Flowers solitary, terminal, 
each with a small brown bract, each flower about 4 lines in diameter. 
Calyx lobes 5, except at the extreme base, 1,5—2 lines long, the outside 
covered with short brown hairs, narrow, and only very slightly obtuse. 
Petals 5, broad, acute, free except at the extreme base, exceeding the 
calyx lobes, probably blue, but fading to brown in dried specimens. 
Anthers slightly pubescent, the lobes not very conspicuous, about 3 lines 
long. — Ovary 2-celled, style long and slender. Fruit a superior, dry, 
2 chambered capsule about 2,5 lines long, with the style persistent. — 
This species is apparently nearest to Halgania Solanacea, from which it 
differs in the following respects: — 1. Leaves less obtuse, smaller, 
thicker in texture, much more densely beset with white felt-like hairs, 
and the midrib not prominent underneath. — 2. Calyx lobes narrower, 
less obtuse, and less than 3 lines long. — 3. Flowers mostly solitary, 
and terminal. — 4. Anther lobes are Jess distinct from each other. 
45. Pityrodia (Chloanthes) coerulea (F. v. M. and Tate), Ewart and 
White, |. c., p. 324, pl. LIX, pl. 4, 5. (Verbenaceae) — Syn.: Chloanthes 
coerulea F. v. Müller et Tate in Bot. Centrbl., 1893, p. 317. 
46. Trichinium (Ptilotus) eriotrichum (W. V. Fitzgerald, M. S.) Ewart 
and White, |. c., p. 325, pl. LX. (Amarantaceae.) — West-Australia: 
Cowcowing, Max Koch, 1904. — Apparently a perennial herbaceous 
plant, the length of specimens examined being 8-10 inches. Stems 
slender, wiry, and rather sparsely branching, covered with white felt- 
like hairs, which are thicker on the younger branches. Leaves ovate- 
lanceolar, half to one inch long, the under surface somewhat densely 
villous, and with a fairly prominent midrib. Alternate, shortly petiolate, 
the internodes being about 1 inch long. Flowers terminal on the end 
of pedicels of about three-quarters to one and a-half inches in length. 
Spikes almost hemispherical, flowers sessile. Bracts small, concave, 
slightly hairy, one to each flower, bracteoles larger, scarious and glabrous, 
3 in number. Perianth segments 5, the two outer larger; the scarious 
margin is blunt, slightly toothed and straw-coloured; outside quite cov- 
ered over by the long jointed hairs which spring from the lower half 
to the segments. — The outer segments measure about 1,5 lines, and 
the hairs 3,0 lines. — Anthers 3, rather long, conspicuously 2-celled, 
innate; filaments not dilated at the base, united in a cup which is ad- 
herent to the perianth tube. Ovary glabrous, style short and simple, 
stigma capitate. 
47. Schoenus nitens Poir. var. major Ewart, l. c., p. 326. — The 
spikelets are in clusters of up to 20 or more, instead of 2 to 6, and the 
plants up to 16 inches in height, instead of 1 to 12 inches. — Victoria: 
Near Mt. Hunter, National Park, Wilson's Promontory, Audas and 
St. John, Oct., 1909. 
