BY J. H. MAIDEN AND E. BETCHK. 647 



late, remotely and minutely denticulate or quite entire, narrowed 

 in the lower half and slightly widened again at the sessile base, 

 about 2^ inches long, those of the stem distant, shorter, less 

 narrowed in the lower part and more entire. Flowering stems 

 about 10 inches high in the specimens seen, bearing the flowers at 

 the top crowded together in a leafy head-like woolly-hairy cluster. 

 Flowers sessile (7 in the single head available for examination), 

 the calyces ahiiost concealed in the long hairs of the rhachis, 

 bracteoles and the base of the calyx-lobes. Calyx-tulje very 

 short, the lobes long, with linear-subulate points. Corolla yellow, 

 hairy outside, about f inch long, the two upper lobes separated 

 much lower down. Capsule ovoid, about 3 lines long, densely 

 woolly-hairy, the dissepiment reaching to above the middle. Seeds 

 rather small and numerous, flat, with a thickened margin, the flat 

 centre minutely pitted. 



Braid wood (W. Bauerlen, December, 1884 ; specimens kindly 

 communicated by Mr. R. T. Baker). 



The affinities of this species are with G. yenicidata, R.Br., var. 



hinata {G. lariata, R.Br.), from which it is chiefl}" distinguished 



by its erect habit, head-like inflorescence and shape of the calyx 



lobes. 



EPACEIDE.S;. 



Epacris Calvertiana, F.v.M. 



Jenolan Caves (W. F. Blakely, October, 1899). 



Leaves from lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, spreading. 



A very different-looking plant from the ordinary form of E. 

 Calvertiaiia with narrow-lanceolate erect leaves, but in other 

 respects identical. 



APOCYNE-E. 



Melodinus australis, sp.nov. 



Described by the collector as "a shrub up to 4 feet," and called 

 l)y him " Bell-bird bush," but from the evidence of the specimen 

 sent, we are inclined to believe that under favourable conditions 

 it is a trailing if not climbing shrub, quite glabrous. Leaves 



