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Maury, P#, Nota acerca de las Ciperaceas de Mexico. (La Naturalem«. Vol. II, 



1890. p. 294.} 

 Mueller, Ferdinand, Baron von, Descriptions of new Australian plants, with 

 occasional other annotations. [Continued.] (From the Victorian Naturalist. 

 1890. August.) 



[Eriostemon Carruthersi. 



Rather tall, copiously beset with spreading soft hairlets ; leaves crowded,. 

 on very short petioles, spreading, from an often rounded base gradually 

 upwards broad-linear , hlunt, at the margin recurved; umbels terminal,, 

 without any peduncle, while young drooping; calyx comparatively large, 

 its Segments lanceolate-linear ; petals from shlightly to considerably longer 

 than the calyx, greenish or somewhat yellow, linear-lanceolate, channel- 

 folded, scantily and only outside beset with hairlets , contiguous along 

 the margin before expansion ; stamens about twice as long as the petals, 

 their filaments red, glabrous, their anthers centrifixed, light-yellow, almost 

 ellipsoid ; styl# as long as the stamens or somewhat longer, red, capillu- 

 lary-filiform ; Stigma minute ; ovularies glabrous, at the summit straight ; 

 disk almost cupular, five-furrowed. 



At Mornya, near the Clyde, ou sandy coast-land ; W. Baeuerlen. 



Height, 1 to 2 1 /* ft. 



Allied to E. phylicoides, from which it is separated by more conspi- 

 cuous vestiture, by the usually greater width of the leaves, by flowers of 

 larger size and on longer pedicels, droopiug before füll development, by 

 different colour of the petals, by deep-red filaments and style, by glabrous 

 ovularies and perhaps also by carpologic characteristics, the ripe fruit of 

 either plant remaining still unknown, although E. phylicoides was described 

 already sixtyfive years ago ; besides the flowering time is much earlier^ 

 from May to July. 



Our new species as regards flowers reminds of Diplolaena, especially 

 on account of the colour of the filaments, which seems quite unique in 

 the genus. From E. Ralstoni it differs already in indument, smaller leaves,.. 

 shape of calyx and ovularies. 



The finder and myself have bestewad on this particularly handsome 

 and rare plant the name of the honourable J. Carruthers, to mark 

 permanently our recognition of the enlightened views, evinced by the 

 honourable gentleman as Minister of Public Instruction of New South 

 Wales, in which capacity he has also much promoted the interests of the 

 Technologie Museum of Sydney, and therewith Mr. M a i d e n 's and Mr^ 

 Baeuerlen 's researches. 



If Phebalium is to be maintained, then our new plant should be placed 

 in that genus ; but this would bring about the necessity of breaking also 

 up the closely allied genus Boronia, on similar considerations. 



Bassia Luehmanni. 



Rather dwarf; leaves very small, from rhomboid- to euneate-spatular,. 

 nearly flat, in the young State as well as the branchlets closely beset with 

 whitish soft hairlets ; tube of the calyx very short ; spinules several or^ 

 many, short, very irregulär in form, some thinly subulate, others down- 

 ward dilated, partly connate and variously denticulated ; stigmas usually 

 two ; seed horizontal. 



Near the Finke River; Rev. VV. F. Schwarz. 



Vestiture somewhat appressed and shining. Leaves without particular 

 sueculence , narrowed into a conspieuous petiole , often 1 /s inch broad. 

 Fruit-calyx very depressed, small, imperfectly beset with hairlets, the 

 closed portion only slightly higher than the seeds, below furrowed. 



This species is distinguishable from all others of the section Anisa- 

 cantha unless B. Birchii by greater breadth of the leaves in proportion 

 to their lenght and by more numerous spinules of the calyx. Irrespective 

 of these characteristics it is separated from B. divaricata by the very 

 short calyx-tube, the greater inequality of the spinules and the horizontal 

 position of the seed. 



Many of the leaves are quite as broad as those of Chenopodium micro- 

 phyllum, although the two plants stand in sections separated on leaf— 

 characteristics. 



