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Bhodomelaceae. Frond stipitate, the stalk cylindrical and in this spe- 

 cimen about 5 inches long, and in its thickest portion about half a lino 

 in diameter. The frond is prolifically branched, the branches arising in 

 lateral groups alternately along the frond, at intervals of from one to 

 two lines. These primary branches are usually less than an inch in 

 length, are filiform and branch rather freely to form secondary branches 

 alternately, — The secondary branches give off numerous short tertiary 

 branches alternately, which tend to become crowded towards the tip, 

 I. where the secondary branches become spirally swollen. The tertiary 



branches soon after their origin divide usually into two branches, which 

 taper to a rather fine point. — The whole plant is covered externally 

 by a rather thick, gelatinous sheath, the same material forming the 

 intercellular material. The tertiary branches are strongly articulate. 

 The stalk of the frond, primary and secondary branches, is solid, and 

 composed of a large number of somewhat elongated cells, about 3 to 

 6 rows of the more peripheral of which are less regular and filled with 

 highly coloured, apparently structureless contents, the cells tend to be- 

 come more elongated towards the centre, and are completely filled with 

 granular contents which are probably physodes and impart a cellular 

 appearance to the cell contents. The tertiary and ultimate branches are 

 only one cell thick. 



69, Pimelea Treyvaudl (P. v. M.), nomen nudum, in Vict. Nat., vol. XI, 



May, 1894, {Thymdaeaceae), p, 2, Ewart and Rees, 1. c, p. 261, pi. LIV. 

 Victoria: Cudgewa, Upper Murray River, H. H. Treyvaud. — There 

 is no record of any published description of this species, and as it 

 appears to be a valid one, a description is appended beneath. — Small 

 branching shrub about 12 inches in height, glabrous, or nearly so. 

 Leaves flat, linear to lanceolate, Vi to 1 inch in length, lower ones 

 shorter and narrower, with distinct intra-marginal vein, opposite. 

 Flower heads 7 to 8 lines in diameter, 8 to 9 bracts about the same 

 length as flowers, ovate lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous on under sur- 

 face, edges fringed with silvery hairs, which are much longer at the 

 base than towards the tip, upper surface covered with silky hairs which 

 are much thicker towards the base, — Flowers hermaphrodite, perianth 

 tube about V/^ lines long, hairy outside with tufts of longer hairs at the 

 base, practically glabrous inside, segments about the same length as 

 the tube, the two inner rather blunter and paler coloured than the 

 outer, and finer in texture. Anthers oblong, connective narrow, flla- 

 ments shorter than anthers and inserted near the mouth of the tube. 

 No fruit with the specimen. It seems nearest to P, nervosa, but differs 

 from it in the size of the leaves, in the number and form of the bracts, 

 in length of the perianth tube and of the filaments, 



Stera Ewart, I. c, p. 263, pi. LV. (Compositae.) — Involucres 

 cylindrical, bracts imbricate in several rows, outer shorter and compara- 

 tively broader than inner. Receptacle very small. Florets few, 2—5 in 

 each head, hermaphrodite or unisexual, in the latter case the florets 



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