BY J. H. MAIDEN AND B. BETCHB. 17 



fruit only may possibly belong to a ISIemecy'lon " (then follows a 

 short description), refers in all probability to Tl. hrachyandra. 



Verticordia darwinioides, n.sp. 



An erect bushy shrub quite glabrous. Leaves opposite, linear- 

 falcate, thick but scarcely triquetrous, about 2 lines long, obtuse, 

 but with a fine often oblique point. Flowers terminal or in the 

 upper axils, usually in pairs on a slender common peduncle 1 to 

 about 2 lines in length; floral-leaves completely resembling the 

 stem-leaves ; bracteoles large, thin and scarious, yellowish, 

 enclosing the flower-buds, and long persistent. Calyx-tube 

 cylindrical, 5-ribbed, smooth, about 3 lines long, the lobes 

 deeply divided into o*^ narrow filamentous segments about 

 twice as long as the petals. Petals ovate, about 1 line long, 

 entire. Stamens short, with nearly globular anthers, but in the 

 few flowers available for examination the anthers and upper 

 parts of the filaments were nearly all eaten off by insects, so that 

 stamens and staminodia could not be cleai'ly distinguished. Style 

 slender, much exserted, bearded towards the end. Ovules 2 only 

 in the ovaria examined. 



Near Dubbo (J. L. Boorman, December, 1897). 



The chiefly W. Australian genus Vet^ticordia has been hitherto 

 only represented in North Australia and Queensland by V. 

 Cunninghamii, Schauer, and in S. Australia by Y. Wilhelmii, 

 F.V.M., to which we can now add V. darwinioides as the only 

 representative in N.S. Wales. ,It is allied to the South Australian 

 species, with which it has the narrow calyx-tube in common, but 

 it forms a still closer connecting link between Darwinia and 

 Verticordia than V. Willi elmii does. The general appearance of 

 the plant is quite that of a Darwinia, an efiect chiefly produced 

 by the large persistent bracteoles, so uncommon in Verticordia, 

 and by the comparatively inconspicuous fringes of the calyx- lobes, 

 generally so very conspicuous in Verticordia; but since we wish 

 to adhere to the generic characters laid down by Bentham and 

 Hooker in their Genera Plantarum, we have no choice but to 

 place it under Verticordia, in spite of its close relationship to 



