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spathulato, ciliate, ^3 ^s long as petals, which are distinct, tapering 

 below, and smooth. Pod stipitate, linear oblong, straight, shlightly con- 

 tracted and depressed between seeds, flat, 2,5—5 cm long by 0,5 cm 

 broad, valves coriaceous with margins thickened. Seeds longitudinal but | 



sometimes slightly oblique, ovate, flattened, mottled, 0,25 cm long., 

 funicle short slender, dilated at base, but scarcely thickened or folded, 

 about half as long as seed. (Kununoppin, E. Avondistrict. P, E. Victor.) 

 P. V. M. and Tate, in their report on the plants of the Elder Ex- 

 pedition, p. 351, note ^Acacia (aff.) gonophylla Benth., with long phyllodes. 

 W. A. near Barrow Range", and probably this is the same species. As 

 compared with A. gonophylla Benth., besides having longes phyllodia, the 

 peduncles are longer, the flower-heads larger and containing numerous 

 florets, the ladle-like sepals with a very slender claw and broad orbi- 

 cular lamina, and about Vs as long as the petals; the pod is depressed 

 between the seeds but not contracted on the margins; the seeds are 

 ovate and flattened, and the funicle is difTerent. 



1052. Cdmisia coriacea Hook. f. var. stricta Cockayne in Trans. N, 

 Zeal. Inst., XLV (1912), 19J3, p. 252. — Caules multiramosi, folia typo 

 rigidiora supra valde argentea basim versus sensim angustata. — South 

 Island: Southland — Forming at and above 900 m altitude continuous 

 silvery masses on the hill- sides, which extend as far as the eye can 

 see, and give a distinctive colour to the slopes even at a considerable 

 distance. Takitimu Mountains, L. C. — This variety branches more 

 than the type, so that one plant may consist of more than thirteen ro- 

 settes, each 62 cm high, and the whole 1,9 m in diameter. The leaves 

 are narrower and more rigid than those of the type, extremely silvery 

 on the upper surface, the margins strongly recurved, and the lamina 

 gradually tapers above in a long acute apex and below into the com- 

 paratively narrow petiole. The silvery pellicle of the upper leaf- surface 

 of C coriacea decreases considerably in plants grown under lowland- 

 garden conditions, but, so far as plants in cultivation with me go, those 

 of this variety still remain much more silvery than those from the 

 Hanmer mountains, both being planted at about the same time. The 

 typical form of C. coriacea is present in the wetter mountains to the 

 \vest of the Takitimus, so the distribution of the two forms is analogous 

 with that of Gaya ribifolia and G. LyaUii (Trans. N.-Z. Inst, XLIV, 

 p. 38; 1912). 



1053. Rihhertla sericea Benth. var. major J. M. Black in Trans. R. 

 Soc. S. Austral., XXXVI (1912), p. 21. — Differt a forma typica sepalis 

 et foliis majoribus (illis 10—15 mm. his 15—20 mm longis), necjaon 

 numero staminum (20—25) et ovulorum (8 in quoque carpello). 

 South Australia: Near Port Lincoln (H. H. D, Griffith). — A stouter 

 plant than the typical form, and larger in all its parts, the sepals den- 

 sely villous, with long silky hairs. . : ^ 





1054. Hibbertia adctdaris P. v. M. var. sessiliflora J. M. Black, 1. c., 

 p. 2r. -^ Ploribus sessilibus, sepalis glabris, staminibus 4 rarius 6, ear- 



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