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brevioribus et latioribus, floribus dioicis, perianthio masculo 
attenuato bracteas excedente glabro, perianthio foemineo masculo 
vix subequilongo deorsum ampliato sursum attenuato glabro. 
Hab. Repperi inter Coolgardie et lac. Darlót, sed ob schedulam 
pretermissam locum accuratius indicare nequeo. 
Verisimiliter frutex deorsum nudus sursum creberrime ramosus. 
Ramuli diffusi, attenuati, angulati, ipsis sub capitulis sepe piloso- 
puberuli. Folia 0:5-0'8 em. long., 0:1-0:2 em. lat., margine sub 
lente minute crenulato-undulata, in sieco flavescenti-viridia. 
Capitula 05-07 em. diam., piloso-puberula vel breviter sericeo- 
villosa. Involucri bracteæ 04-07 cm. long., glabra, usque ad 
0:25 em. lat., obtuse vel acute, nonnunquam breviter acuminate. 
Flores verisimiliter virescentes. Perianthii masculi tubus 0:4 em. 
long., 0°05 em. lat. ; limbi 0:25 em. diam., lobi obovato-oblongi, 
obtusissimi, 0:13 em. long. Perianthii foeminei tubus mox usque ad 
cirea 0:4 em. expansus, deorsum ad 0:1 em. angustatus, sursum 
subito ad 0:03 em. coarctatus, ejus lobi perbreves, late ovati, ob- 
tusissimi. Filamenta brevissima; antherarum connectivus an- 
gustus. Stigma breviter exsertum. Drupa nondum matura 
0:3 em. long. 
Differs from Pimelea microcephala, R. Br., on account of its 
extremely ramose habit, smaller leaves, short glabrous male 
flowers, and entirely different female. For the same reasons, 
except the presence of hairs on the perianth and with the addition 
of larger more-flowered heads, it cau readily be distinguished 
from P. pauciflora, R. Br. 
LORANTHACER. 
LORANTHUS LINEARIFOLIUS, Hook. Near Goose’s soak. 
South of MacAuliffe's soak. Plain south of Doyle's well. All 
in June. The hosts were species of Acacia not in flower. 
Flowers red. 
The same individual host at the Goose’s soak also supported 
the following, viz. :— 
L. Mvnmnavr, F. Muell. § Tate, var. PARVIFLORA nob. (L. 
miniatus, nob., in Journ. Bot. xxxv. (1897) p. 170.) Near 
Goose's soak and Kilkenny soak, June. Flowers pale greenish 
below, yellow or orange above. Berries dark red. 
Since writing my memoir (vide loc. cit.) on the camel-fodder 
plants of West Australia, I have had the opportunity of seeing 
at Kew specimens of L. Murrayi, the affinity of which with my 
