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with a smooth, compact, whitish bark, decorticating in hard, short flakes 
at the base, which, according to Mueller's M. S., is deeply furrowed, but 
is not so described by my correspondent, Mr. C. W. Chapman (to whom 
I. am indebted for the full material) Branchlets angular, but soon terete, 
reddish-coloured. Leaves mostly alternate, from linear or narrow 
lanceolate in the adventitions shorts, and from lanceolate to oblong 
lanceolate in the normal form; under 6 inches long and half an inch 
wide; occasionally shining. Venation rather obscured in the thick epi- 
dermis; lateral veins sparse, oblique, distant; intramarginal vein removed 
from the edge. Oil glands numerous, but exceedingly small. Flowers 
small on axillary peduncles or terminal panicles. Calyx turbinate angled, 
gradually tapering into a short pedicel. Operculum conical, blunt. Fruits 
small, oval-urnshaped, angled, under 3 lines long, and under 1!/, lines 
in diameter, valves depressed. 
Queensland, Tandawanna (C. W. Chapman), Newinga, Goondiwindi 
(C. W. Chapman), Cometville and Emerald (rare; P. A. O'Shanesy, in 
Herb. Melb.); Expedition Range (Thozet, in Herb. Melb.). 
175. Halorrhagis verrucosa J. H Maiden et E. Betche in Proc. Linn. 
Soc. N. S. Wales, XXXI (1906), p. 397. 
A perfectly glabrous annual about 1 to 1!/, feet high, branched 
from the base, with slender 4-angled and slightly winged stems and 
branches. Stem-leaves opposite, very shortly petiolate or almost sessile, 
distant, in all specimens seen from 1!/, to above 3 inches apart, 
lanceolate j; to %/j of an inch long, and at the most !/ of an inch 
broad, acute, remotely serrate, with the whitish recurved margins so 
frequent in the genus; floral-leaves reduced to very small alternate bracts, 
quite minute under the uppermost flowers. Racemens filiform in a 
terminal panicle, the flowers solitary and very shortly pedicellate within 
the bracts. Bracteoles very minute or absent. Calyx-tube ovate, sub- 
membranous, glàbrous, faintly 8-ribbed and densely covered with whitish 
callosities, about 10 between the ribs; the lobes triangular, shorter than 
the tube, without any distinct basal callosities, and not cordate. Stamens 
8. Fruits mostly 1-celled. 
New South Wales: Woodburn, Richmond River (W. Büuerlen, 
Dezember 1894). 
According to Benthams classification of the genus this new species 
is nearest allied to H. micrantha R. Br., from which it is sharply distin- 
guished by the fruits, the narrow leaves, and by the taller growth. In 
Prof. Schindler’s classification it belongs to subgenus Euhalorrhagis (an- 
droecium 2-cyclicum, discus non papillosus), section Monanthus (inflores- 
centiae spicatae vel paniculatae floribus in bractearum axilliis singulis 
fructus membranaceus vel submembranaceus non nucamentaceus, colu- 
mella persistente 1-locularis; flores octandri), subsection Rhagocalyx 
(tubus ovarii verrueis prosilientibus interruptus), and is nearest allied to 
H. tenuis Schindler, from which it is distinguished by the habit and the 
