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XII. Alfred J. Ewart, 

 Contributiones Florae Australiensis. IX. 



(Ex: Proc. R. Soc. Victoria, N. S. XXIII, pt. 1 [1910), pp. 110— 115. 

 pi. XXII-XXIV.) 



53. Atriplex pterocarpa Kwart and Rees, 1. c, p. 110, pi. XXI. — 

 Apparently a shrub, the stem and leaves bearing short, woolly hairs* 

 which give the plant a whitish appearance. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, 

 ovate leaves with fairly long petioles, and lanceolate leaves narrowed at 

 the base with short petioles — entire or with margins slightly indented. 



— Flowers unisexual in globular axillary clusters 2-4 lines in diameter- 

 The upper clusters consist of male flowers surrounded by a few female, 

 the lower clusters of female only. Female flowers — perianth in 2 seg- 

 ments, with irregularly serrated edges, and closely covered on the outside 

 with short woolly hairs, on the inner side of the segments is a peculiar 

 outgrowth of finely branched greenish veins. Styles 2 united at extreme 

 base — Male flowers — perianth in 4 segments, 4 stamens opposite to the 

 segments of the perianth. Fruiting perianth compressed, entirely closed 

 except at apex, ovate orbicular, about ' , inch across, margin entire. 

 Valves thin at the edges, but slightly roughened and thickened towards 

 the centre and closely set with much branched veins which are specially 

 conspicuous on the inner side of the valves. Radicle lateral. — New 

 South Wales, Near Silverton. E. N. Charsley, 1886. 



54. Gastrolobium Laytoni J. White, 1. c, p. Ill, pi. XXII. — An erect 

 shrub of 1,5 to 2,5 feet high. Branches stiff, when young covered with 

 short greyish hairs, the older branches only slightly so. Leaves petiolate, 

 laminae 1,5 — 2 inches in length, and , j a — \ 4 inch in breadth, petiole 

 abouth 1,5 lines long, Leaves cuneata, blunt or sometimes very slightly 

 convex at the apex, with entire margins, which are hardly recurved, and 

 tend to be folded inwards, venation rather prominent on the upper sur- 

 face, which is almost glabrous, the under surface being covered with 

 felt-Jhke greyish hairs, opposite, stipules filamentous; about 1 line long. 



— Racemes axillary, rachis 1,5 — 2,5 inches covered with minute greyish 

 hairs, pedicels distinct, hairy, under 1 line in length. Bracts and brac- 

 teoles deciduous. — Flowers small, calyx rather thickly pubescent; the 

 2 upper lobes united a little higher up than the others, 1,5 — 2 lines long. 

 Vexillum less than twice as long as the calyx, and a little longer than 

 the alae or carina, about 2 lines in breadth. — Stamens free, ovary den- 

 sely covered with white wooly hairs, stipes 3 / 4 --l line in length. — The 

 plant belongs to the Series II. (Racemosae) of Bent ham. — It seems 

 to be nearest to G. polystachyum Meissner. It is easily distinguished ex- 

 ternally from that species by the leaves not being undulate and the ra- 



