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corolla-tube extends 4 or 5 lines beyond the calyx, ending in rounded 

 rather short lobes; throat of tube densely hairy inside. Filaments broad 

 with ciliate margins. Fruit ovoid or ovoid-globular, 5 to 7 lines long, 

 4 seeded or less by abortion. — Queensland: Georgina River, B. W. Bick. 



35. Eremophilia rotundifolia Bail., 1. c, p. '287. — Branchlets hoary 

 with a close tomentum and glandular tuberculate. Leaves nearly orbi- 

 culate, or broader than long, 3 to 4 lines diameter, thick, often compli- 

 cated, with a short recurved, obtuse point, abruptly contracted at the 

 base into a short broad petiole. Calyx-segments oblong-spathulate or 

 almost obovate, about 5 lines long. Corolla-tube about 8 or 9 lines long, 

 contracted above the ovary and slightly under the lobes, the lobes short 

 and broad. Stamens scarcely exserted. Fruid ribbed, about the length 

 of the calyx, maturing 2 to 4 seeds. — Flora Austr. V. 19, and Mueller's 

 Myoporinous Plants. Tab. IX. — Queensland: Georgina River, E. W. Bick. 



36. Trichinium nervosum Bail., 1. c, p. 287. — Stems erect, few, 

 and seldom branched, from a perpendicular root, about 7 in. high, often 

 red with grey woolly stripes; the upper leaves under the inflorescence 

 often small, oblong, apiculate, sometimes not over 1 in. long and Va in. 

 broad; the lower stem ones 2 in. long, 1% in. broad, nearly or quite 

 sessile; the radical ones spathulate, 3 in. long, l 3 / t in. broad in the wide 

 upper part; all of a firm thick consistence and apiculate, and sessile 

 from the decurrent lamina upon the petiole to the base. Lateral nerves 

 very pronounced, irregular as to number and direction, pink and glabrous. 

 Spikes terminal, oblong, 2 to 3 in. long, l'/a to 3 3 /i in. broad, the rhachis 

 densely hairy. Bracts transparent, for the most part ovate, about 5 lines 

 long, 3 lines broad, the midrib prominent, ending in a more or less 

 sharp point; bracteoles narrow and hairy on the back. Perianth recurved, 

 about 1 in. long, woolly hairy, of a greenish colour; tube very short 

 land densely hairy. Segments plumose, with long blunt, glabrous, invo 

 ute tips; the inner segments much narrower than the outer; tip yellowish- 

 and glossy. Anthers 3. Ovary glabrous. This new species approaches 

 closely T. nobile, which is very variable in form, but differs so much in 

 general appearance, colour, and nervation that I have thought the present 

 plant might better be given specific rank. — Queensland: Georgina 

 River, E. W. Bick. 



37. Euphorbia Stevenii Bail., 1. c, p. 288, pi. XXX. — Steven's Caustic 

 Plant. A low branching shrub from 6 to 9 in. high and slightly excee- 

 ding that in breadth. Stem and branches fleshy, terete, very milky, 

 dichotomous. Leaves scattered, soon deciduous, narrow, and somewhat 

 obtuse or ovate-lanceolate, with a few sharp teeth towards a sharp point, 

 about 1 in. long, mostly near the ends of the branches, with the flowers 

 and fruit in their axils. Stipules minute. Flower-heads solitary, invo- 

 lucre 1 line long, glands 4 or 5. Capsule of 3 almost globose cocci, 

 veined. Seeds rough with a deep suture. — Queensland: Found 

 growing on little mounds of earth in the claypans of the Georgina River, 

 where it is suspected of poisoning stock, E. W. Bick. 



Repertorinm specierum no varum. XII. (20. III. 1913.) 2 



