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>tyle beset with spreadinj>' hairiets; stigma-cover at the orifice glabrous ; 

 fruit small, ovate-globular, by nearly one-i alf or about one-third longer 

 rhan the calyx-segments, outside imperfectly pubeseent ; dissepiment rudi- 

 mentary ; seeds 6 ur less ripeuing, pale-brownisli, prominently uiargined 

 and surrounded by a rather broadi.sh membrane. 



Xear the Gascoyne-River ; Lady Margareth Forrest. 



Root and basal leaves unknown. Lower leaves to l 1 / 2 inches long, 

 upper gradually lessened to about. half an incli length. United peduncle 

 and pedieel 8 /4— 1'/4 inch long. Calyx slightly beset with hairiets, about 

 '/s inch long, except at the very base quite free. Corolla about half an 

 inch long, the appendages of all the lobes conspicuous, in the only avai- 

 lable specimen bleached already, but likely yellow ; undivided portion of 

 the corolla inuch shorter than the lobes. Stigma-cover bearing some t'ew 

 hairiets at its base. Fruit turgid, about \e inch long or little longer. 

 Seeds of equal height, nearly V 8 inch long, tiat, pyriform-ovate, when 

 plaeed into tepid water emitting a copious tough whitish mucus. 



The evidently rare plant would have perhaps no claini to bear, as now 

 wished, the celebrated uaine of the Rev. Dr. George Salmon, were it 

 not for the rarity of the species ; but the writer was eager, yet within 

 the year of the three hundredth anniversary of the Dublin-Uni versity to 

 bestow on some new plant of the Australian Flora also in phytographic 

 commemoration the uame of the illustrous divine, who as President of the 

 Royal Irish Academy and of Trinity-College was so leadingly connected 

 with this memorable jubilee. 



This Velleya connects that genus still more closely with Goodenia ; 

 iudeed it would be a genuine congener of the latter, if the segments of 

 the calyx coalesced into an even only short tube. 



At a. niere passing glance V. Salmoniana might be taken for Goodenia 

 filiformis, so great is the habitual resemblance, and this eonfusioti would 

 be all the more excusable, as no other species exist in the genus Velleya 

 at all of such an aspect. Nevertheless the distinctions are in various 

 respects well marked, G. filiformis having the leaves broader, the calyces 

 adnate, the corolla outside less pubeseent, but unilaterally its tube pro- 

 truding, the style glabrous, the fruit surpassed by the calyx the seeds 

 smaller blackish outside with much narrower margin. 



Glossostigm a trichodes. 



Erect; leaves in tufts, froin linear- to elliptic-spatular; peduncles very 

 long, thinly capillulary, numerously crowded together; lobes of the calyx 

 very unequal, much shorter than the tube; corolla-lobes conspicuously 

 extending beyond the calyx, unfringed; stamens four, their upper portion 

 emerged; style conspicuous; capsule enclosed ; seeds ellipsoid, their testule 

 subtle clathrate-streaked. 



Xear Parker's Range; Edwin Merrell. 



This plant is in habit very different from the three other Glossostigmas, 

 inasmuch as the leaves and peduncles are close together in great numbers, 

 no creeping offshoots being observable on the speeimens reeeived. The 

 flower stalks are generally several inches long, and it would appear, that 

 the plant grew submergedly, and elongated its peduncles in the striving 

 of its flowers, to reach the surface. In most other respects this Glosso- 

 stignia approaches very near to G. drummondi. The extreme thinther 

 of the peduncles renders them so laxe as hardly to be able to beass ne 

 weight of the flower.] 

 Plailk, E. X., Botanieal notes from Central Texas. (Garden and Forest. V. 1892. 



p. 351.) 

 Keuthe, Gr., Nochmals Heuehera sanguinea Engelm. (Gartenflora. 1893. Heft 1. 



p. 15.) 

 Rolfej A., On Habenaria-Orchis viridi maculata Rolfe hybr. nat. (Annais of" 



Botany. ' Vol. VI. 1892. No. 23.) 

 Hoax, N'isiiiH. Herborisations dans le Dauphin^ meridional et au mout Ventoux. 



8°. 22 pp. ' Lyon (impr. Plan) 1892. 

 KnSSell, Henry, Les Pyrenees occidentales. (Extrait du volume destine aux 

 membres du congres de 1' Association francaise pom 1 avancement des sciences.. 

 21 e Session. Pau 1892.) 8 g . 14 pp. Pau (impr. Garet) 1893. 



