Contributiones Florae Australiensis, IV. 411 
bilabiate. The usually straight upper calyx teeth of variety largiflorens 
show an approach to this species. 
Locality, Frankston, Coll. J. W. Audas, 1907. 
CXVIL Alfred J. Ewart, 
Contributiones Florae Australiensis. IV. 
(Ex: Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria N. N., XXI, 2 [1909], pp. 540—549, 
| pl. XXX—XXXIIL) 
20. Baeckea Eatoniana A. J. Ewart and White, l. c., p. 540. 
A small, much branched, shrubby plant about 5 or 6 inches high, 
the branches woody and stiff, and covered by a whitish membrane, 
peeling off on the older branches, leaving a yellowish scaly bark. Leaves 
about one-sixteenth inch long, glandular, green, almost cylindrical and 
sessile, blunt at the top, decussate. Flowers solitary, with 2 bracteoles, 
Calyx, 5 sepals, the tube adnate to the ovary, the sepals free, and with 
a white and membranous border. Petals 5, free, orbicular, shortly stal- 
ked, white, sinuous at the edge, one-twelfth inch long. Stamens 20, 
rarely 3 to 4 fewer, forming a single ring attached to a projecting ridge 
connected with the bases of the petals, filaments dilated more or less 
at the lower end, without any cilia-like appendages at the points of 
attachment, free from each other, filiform, as a rule 4 stamens situated 
Opposite each petal. Anthers, bilobed, obcordate; stamens not quite so 
long as the petals. Gynaecium. — Ovary rough on the outside, 2-celled, 
the upper part very convex. Style deeply immersed, as long as the 
Stamens. Stigma slightly bilobed. | 
Youndegin, West-Australia, Alice Eaton, 1894. The specimens 
were first examined by Mr. Luehmann, who considered its nearest 
affinity to be B. pulchella. Baron Mueller gave it the apparently un- 
Published name of B. Eatoniana (nomen nudum), which is retained in the 
foregoing description. 
21. Galium parisiense L. var. australe A. J. Ewart, l c., p. 541. 
The specimens come nearest to the variety anglicum of G. parisiense, 
and have usually 5—7 leaves in the whorls. The flowers, however, 
Show a greater tendency to aggregate in small terminal clusters and 
the fruits are slightly smaller, dark and slightly roughened with sma 
asperities. 
P Goroke, Victoria, St. Eloy D'Alton, no. 7; Goulburn R., 1892, 
W. Gates; Wannon R., below Hamilton, Vict, H. B. on: 
no. 622 (no date), and same locality, Nov., 1898; Wooroloo, W est- 
Australia, Max Koch, 1906, no. 1646. : | 
It seems surprising that the presence of this plant in tid iar 
been overlooked so long, but the older specimens of it had been r 
to various species of Galium and Asperwa as slender varieties of them, 
