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to linear about 5 lines long on the inside. 



Florets hermaphrodite, 5 



in each head protruding slightly beyond involucre, corolla elongated, 

 cylindrical, 5 segments almost erect. Stamens 5, sagittate at base, 

 connective forming blunt process above. Anthers reaching mouth of 



long, not so slender as in S. 



corolla tube. Achene about 



Va line 



conocephala and S. microphylla. Pappus wavy at base, barbed closely 

 at tip. 



73. Wehlia pediceilata Ewart and Rees, I c, p. 266, pi LVI, f. b. 

 W. thryptomenoides var. pediceUata. — Small shrub, somewhat similar 



in appearance to W, thryptomenoides. Branches are given off more 

 nearly at right angles from the main stem. Leaves larger (2 to 2Va lines 

 long), less prominently glandular and blunt tipped. Flowers on distinct 

 pedicels, developed in axils of leaves towards the ends of the branches. 

 Flower differs from TF. thryptomenoides chiefly in number of stamens (25 

 or rather more). Each stamen has a glandular swelling on the back 

 between the anther lobes. — Locality. — Mount Moore, West Australia, 

 Edwin Merrall, 1889. 



74. Wehlia pulcherrima Ewart and Rees, L c, p. 267, pi. LVI, f. c— e. 



Myrtaceae. — Towards Coolgardie, West Australia, W. A. Macpherson, 



Branching shrub, branches somewhat elongated. Leaves 2 to 



1895. 



2^2 lines long, linear ovate, 3 angled with bluntly-pointed tip, surface 

 somewhat glandular. Flowers developed in axils of leaves at the ends 

 of the branches, crowded in a head-like inflorescence. Bracts with 

 slightly membranous edges enclosing calyx tube, which is almost or 

 quite hidden. Surface of calyx tube slightly grooved longitudinally. 

 Sepals 1 line long, membranous, ovoid, bluntly pointed. Petals about 

 twice as long as sepals, ovate lanceolate, purplish in colour. Stamens 

 30 or indefinite, dorsifixed with gland on the dorsal surface between the 

 anther lobes. — W. pediceUata is readily distinguished from W. thrypto- 

 menoides by its larger foliage, stalked flowers and more numerous 

 stamens. — W. pulcherrima is distinguished from the preceding by its 

 still more numerous stamens (30 or more), terminal clustered inflores- 

 cence and larger flowers. Two other species have been described by 

 Baron von Mueller from West Australia, W. staminosa (Wings Southern 

 Science Record, III, 1884, p. 282), and W. coarcfata (Fragmenta, X, p. 23, 

 1876). The former has a larger number of stamens (up to about 40) 

 than any other species; W. coarctata has the leaves neither angular nor 

 pointed, the pedicels longer than the calyx and the stamens as in W. 

 thryptomenoides. The leaves readily distinguish it from W, pediceUata, 

 which has also pedicels longer than the calyx. 



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