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oblongis glabris, carina media farinacea, apice in cristam orbicularem 
expansa, Columna brevissima, alis brevibus truncatis. 
Species E. latifoliae Reichb. f. affinis sed floribus majoribus, labello 
circumscriptione orbiculari, nec obovato differt. 
XXIV. Species novae in Horto Botanico Sydneyano. (Lu) 
a J. H. Maiden et E. Betche descriptae. 
(Ex: Proc. Linn. Soc. N. South Wales, XXX [1905], pp. 354—375.) 
8. Lepidium rotundum DC. var. phlebopetalum Maiden et Betche, 1. c., 
p. 354. 
(Syn.: Lepidium phlebopetalum F. v. M.) 
The West Australian Lepidium rotundum was added to the flora of 
New South Wales, in 1898, in Moore and Betche's Handbook of the 
Flora of New South Wales, from specimens from Byrock with such 
broad pod-wings that they could not well be included in L. phlebopetalum. 
Since then, more East as well as West Australian material has passed 
through our hands, and has convinced us that L. phlebopetalum cannot 
be upheld as a species. Bentham remarked as early as 1863 (B. Fl. 
I. p. 85): — „L. phlebopetalum is very closely allied to L. rotundum, and 
perhaps a variety only, scarcely differing from it except in the pod.* 
We now propose to reduce it to a variety of L. rotundum. 
9. Lasiopetalum longistamineum Maiden et Betche, l. c., p. 355. 
A spreading, somewhat pendulous shrub, about 3 to 4 feet high, the 
young branches somewhat flattened and densely rust-coloured tomentose. 
Leaves narrow-lanceolate, mostly 3 to 5 inches long and ?/, to above 
1 inch broad, rounded and often slightly cordate at the base, tapering 
towards the apex; green and glabrous above when full-grown, densely 
white-tomentose underneath, the midvein more or less rust-coloured. 
Flowers sessile and crowded in two one-sided rows on the spike-like 
branches of the pedunculate leaf-opposed cymes, the whole inflorescence 
densely rust-coloured tomentose. Bracteoles oblong, densely tomentose 
on both sides, slightly longer than the calyx, and appressed to it, 
Calyx-segments almost free (approaching the genus Lysiosepalum), linear- 
lanceolate, tomentose outside, glabrous inside except on the edges, about 
3 to 4 lines long. Petals scale-like, very small. Stamens about as long 
as the calyx, the filaments fully four times as long as the anthers; 
anthers exserted, opening in terminal pores. Ovarium tomentose, 3-celled, 
the style loosely eovered with stellate hairs from the base to near the 
summit. Seeds strophiolate, slightly downy. 
New South Wales: Mt, Dangar, Gungal; in moist warm places in 
1) Siehe Rep. nov. spec., V (1908), pp. 54—57. 
