410 . Alfred J. E wart. 
nearly !/ inch in length, in large, fully-opened flowers, the lobes more 
or less acuminate, usually lanceolate, but not always of equal breadth 
in the same flower. Stamens numerous. Styles 4. Capsule dehiscing 
into 8 valves. Seeds numerous, almost black, shaped like the head of a 
mace and covered with small tuberculate spines. 
Murchison R., I. Tyson, 1898; Mt. Caroline, 1891, Miss Sewel; Salt 
Lakes, Martha Heal. 
17. Aizoon Rodwayi A. J. Ewart, l. c., p. 128. 
Plant 3 to over 8 inches high, stems more or less decumbent at 
base, and spreading. Leaves in opposite pairs, soft, fleshy, with scat- 
tered warty, transparent tubercles, ovate or linear, mostly !/, inch long, 
but beneath each flower usually a larger pair more pointed and with 
broader bases. Plant glabrous throughout, the stems more slender than 
A. quadrifidum, but stouter than A. glabrum. Flowers large terminal, 1 to 
1!/, inches diameter when fully expanded. Calyx divided to about the 
middle, the five segments with broad bases and more or less bluntly 
acuminate tips. Other features much as in À. quadrifidum. Seeds 
apparently reddish-brown, but otherwise as in A. glabrum. 
The absence of any scurfy tomentum at once distinguishes these 
two species from A. quadrifidum. In addition, A. Rodwayi has broader 
ovate or lanceolate leaves, the calyx is less deeply divided, the flower 
larger and more bulky at its base. This, with the less deeply divided 
calyx and the shape of the leaves distinguishes the plant from A. zygo- 
phylloides. A. glabrum is told by its glabrous wiry stems, smaller flowers 
and calyx deeply divided to the base. 
I. Tyson, Salt Marsh, West-Australia, 1893; F. A. Rodway, 
M. B., dried up salt lake, Desdemona, West-Ausiralia, 1907. 
18. Olearia homolepis F. v. M. var. pilosa A. J. Ewart, 1. c., p. 133. 
The variety differs from the type in having slightly longer peduncles, 
the flowers sometimes more than three together, the bracts usually 
somewhat shorter and more pointed. The leaves shorter (about 1 cm 
long) and the whole plant covered with a more or less well-developed 
pubescence, the scabrous hairs less developed. 
From O. strigosa Benth., it differs in its twenty or more ray florets, 
equal pappus and short nonseptata scabrous hairs. It bears some 
resemblance to O. adenolasia (F. v. M.) but is distinguished by its 
more numerous ray florets, larger heads, more pointed and usually co- 
loured bracts. 
Cowcowing, West-Australia. Max Koch, no. 1087 (1904). 
19. Pultenaea stricta Sims var. incurvata A. J. Ewart, |. c., p. 137. 
This has the leaves with hard, minutely-pointed, recurved tips, 
giving the plant a peculiar harsh feel when drawn through the fingers. 
In some respects it is intermediate between the variety Maidemi and the 
type form. 
Pultenaea retusa Sm., comes near to some forms of P. stricta, but the 
calyx teeth are of more equal shape and length, and the calyx is hardly 
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