84 J. H. Maiden. 
smaller branchlets, Flowers glabrous, about 10 or less, sessile in a 
small terminal head, often becoming lateral by the development of the 
laxis, with hardly any floral leaves in the heads. Bracts and bracteoles 
broadly ovate, boatshaped, acuminate, almost as large as the calyx-tube 
and enelosing it, nearly of equal size but the bract rather larger, with 
a longer point and often minutely ciliate. Calyx-tube ovoid, quite 
glabrous, the lobes lanceolate, acute, about */, the size of the tube. 
Petals white, scarcely exceeding the sepals. Stamens not numerous, the 
filaments hardly twice as long as the petals. Ovarium 3-or rarely 
4-celled, with numerous ovules in each cell on a peltate placenta. Fruits 
not seen. 
New South Wales: Wallangarra (J. L. Boorman, Nov. 1904). 
This new Kunzea occurs in a dry watercourse in the mountainous 
country about Wallangarra, near the Queensland border, in company 
with A. corifolia. Its most distinctive character is the remarkably large 
bracts and bracteoles in which the single flowers are wrapped up: in 
this respect it comes near some West Australian species of Section 
Eukunzea, but the characters of the ovarium are those of Section 
Salisia, and its nearest affinity is K. capitata. In general appearance it 
is somewhat like a glabrous form of K. capitata, with white flowers and 
narrower leaves, but the large bracteoles well distinguish it from any 
described species. 
15. Actinotus Gibbonsii F. v. M. var. Baeuerlenii Maiden et Betche, 
LG p. 364. 
Mr. Bäuerlen writes in his notes; — „This differs from 4. Gibbonsu 
in the following characters: — Always quite prostrate, more weak and 
flaccid, and the leaves always of a darker colour, radiating with shoots 
sometimes up to 18 inches in length. Flowers considerably smaller; 
sepals smaller; of a different shape, deltoid. Anthers apparently larger; 
filaments shorter. Hairs on the fruit with a large gland on the apex. 
Hairs on the sepals quite different, cellular; with whorled branches, 
sometimes like the antlers of a horn of a stag. Pedicels longer and 
terete, not flat and broader at the base as in A. Gibbonsüi“. 
. New South Wales: Shuttleton, near Nymagee, on stony hills (W. 
Bäuerlen, Nov. 1903). 
As far as the habit goes there is no difference between this form 
and the type. The type is variable in habit; we have seen it quite 
prostrate, forming patches 4 to 5 feet in diameter, and in other localities 
again almost erect. With regard to the details of the flowers. Mr. 
Bäuerlen’s observations are quite correct in the main. The chief and 
only essential difference is in the fruit and the persistent calyx-lobes. 
The shape of the fruit is about the same, but in the type the edges are 
densely ciliate with long white simple hairs, and the calyx is at least 
half as long as the fruit, and in the variety the hairs on the edge are 
shorter and tipped with a gland, and the calyx is much shorter, the lobes 
broader and the hairs are branched. 
