BY J. H. MAIDEX AND K. BETCHE. '2it 



branches densely covered with short, rigid spreading bristles, 

 which are slightly flattened and almost scale-like. Leaves 

 numerous, somewhat distichously arranged, fan-shaped, the rounded 

 outer margin dentate with 7 to 9 nearly triangular teeth, the sides 

 entire and naiTOwed into a short slender petiole, the largest leaves 

 about 6 or 7 mm. broad and somewhat less long, on a petiole 

 hardly 1 mm. long, dark green and nearly glabrous on the upper 

 surface, palei' and sparingly bristly on the underside. Umbels 

 compound, terminal on the slender scrambling branches, 

 shortly pedunculate, generally with 5 rays supported by the 

 small linear involucral bracts, each ray bearing 5 or more 

 fruits on short pedicels, the whole umbel ^'J to 3 cm. in diam- 

 eter : the rays, pedicels, fruits, and even involucral bracts 

 covered with the scale-like bristles of the stems. Calyx-teeth 

 inconspicuous. Fruits aboxit 2 mm. long and broad, the ribs 

 scai'cely conspicuous but much concealed by the short bristles 

 covering them. 



This I'emarkable new Trachyme/ir, was discovered by Dr. 

 (Jleland, in Febi'uary, 1911, but his sjDecimens were in early 

 bud and too imperfect for determination. Mr. Boormau 

 collected compleic material, being directed to the locality by 

 Dr. Cleland in May, 1911. It grows among.st huge sand- 

 stone boulders, on the Berowra Creek, on the Hawkesbuiy 

 River, and does not seem to be by any means plentiful. 



It is a well marked species, but its affinities are distinctly 

 with T. Bdlardieri . The typical T . Bdlardlcri , ei"ect, glab- 

 rous, and with entire leaves, differs widely from the new 

 species, but affinities can be found in its numerovis forms. 

 The variety cunea.'a, from the Snowy River, comes nearest 

 to it, and forms a distinct connecting link : it has a divari- 

 cate habit, is slightly scabrous all over, and has cuneate 

 leaves^ though smaller and entire. The toothed leaves of 

 T. Stephensotii, which is after all only a form of T. liUktrdi- 

 cri, also connect the two species. 



