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involucre. Anther tube slightly exserted. Pappus bristles fairly nume- 
rous, not quite all the same length. Achenes hairy, greatly compressed, 
long and narrow. 
F. M. Reader, sandy tracts, Shire of Borung, 1904; Dimboola, 
Mallee Serub, 1892. (Victoria.) 
New to Victoria. The specimens were marked provisionally by 
Mr. Reader as Aster decurrens var. angustifolia. It differs from this 
Species, however, in the shorter obtusely linear leaves, the heads usually 
solitary at the ends of separate branches, usually 1—3 inches long. 
rather larger and with more numerous imbricated bracts. Achenes silky. 
hairy, pappus as in Olearia decurrens. 
25. Styphelia (Soleniscia) elegans DC. var. brevior A. J. Ewart, Le 
5. 
p. 54 | 
The variety has some of the flowers two together in the axil of one 
leaf. Bentham gives them as solitary in the axils for the type, but even 
here very occasionally two flowers may occur to one leaf. In addition 
the flowers are shorter, being !/, to 3/, inch instead ‘of 3/, to 1 inch, and 
the upper half of the corolla tube is filled with dense white hairs con- 
tinued over the inside of the lobes. 
Max Koch, 1907, Wooroloo, West-Australia, no. 1347. 
26. Thysanotus Bentianus A. J. Ewart and White, 1. c., p. 546. 
Herbs from one and a-half to 3 inches in height. Roots fibrous, 
without tubers, Leaves radical, more numerous than those of Thysanotus 
triandrus, which this species somewhat resembles. Leaves much shorter 
than in T. triandrus, and very densely beset with fairly long, rigid hairs, 
the hairs being more than twice as thick as any of many specimens of 
S. triandrus examined, The leaves are also more cylindrical than those 
of T. triandrus, and also the cells of the palisade parenchyma are longer 
than they are in T. triandrus. 
Scapes simple, exceeding the length of the leaves by about half 
their length, while in T. triandrus the scapes are relatively longer. There 
is usually a single terminal umbel of flowers, the bracts of the inflores- 
cence being much larger and more conspicuous than in T. triandrus, but 
there may be also occasionally a small umbel situated below the terminal 
one. Flowers much smaller than in T. triandrus and pedicels shorter, 
stamens 3, opposite the petals, the anthers being about the same length 
aS the filaments. 
Youndegin, West-Australia, Alice Eaton, 1893. 
21. Urodon dasyphyllus Turez var. ovalifolius A. J. Ewart, l. e. p. jo 
This is usually short and condensed, 6 inches or so in height, the 
leaves shorter, broader, very hairy, densely set. A specimen of Drum- 
mond's from West-Australia links this variety to the type form 
having the habit of the variety, but the more pointed and parrow leaves 
of the type. Wangering, West-Australia, R. Helms, 1591; ‚Cool; 
gardie, West-Australia, McPherson, 1895; Parker's R., West- 
Australia, Merral, 1892. 
As the genus has not previously been figured, full figures of the 
variety are given. 
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