18 FOUR NEW SPECIES OF N.S.W. PLANTS, 



Darwinia. The material procured by Mr. Boorman is unfortu- 

 nately scant, on account of the late season in which it was 

 collected, so that we have only a few imperfect flowers for exami- 

 nation, but we hope to procure better material next season, which 

 may necessitate some slight modification in the above description. 



RULINGIA PROCUMBENS, n.sp. 



A prostrate shrub with slender stems trailing closely along the 

 ground, more or less stellate-hairy all over. Leaves on petioles 

 generally \ to nearly ^ inch in length, from ovate to ovate- 

 lanceolate in general outline, ver}' obtuse, 1-1|^ inches long and 

 up to an inch broad, deeply and irregularly crenate or almost 

 lobed, oblique, one side of the midrib usually larger than the 

 other, sprinkled with stellate hairs on the upper side, densely 

 white tomentose underneath also with stellate hairs. Flowers in 

 small leaf-opposed cymes generally not much longer than the 

 petioles. Buds very obtuse, scarcely angular. Calyx tomentose, 

 spreading to about 3 lines diameter. Petals with a rather broad 

 lamina, as long as the calyx or slightly exceeding its lobes. 

 Staminodia connivent, glabrous like the petals but shorter. 

 Capsule stellate-tomentose and covered with very short stellate- 

 hairy setse. 



Described in the Handbook of the Flora of Netv South Wahs, 

 p. 64, by Moore and Betche, as Commersoyiia Gaudichaudi, Gay. 



Near Dubbo (E. Betche, Nov., 1887). 



RULINGIA PROSTRATA, n.sp. 



A prostrate shrub forming dense mats or patches several feet 

 across and only a few inches thick, sparingly sprinkled with long 

 stellate hairs. Leaves on slender petioles of half an inch to 

 occasionally 1 inch in length and even longer, ovate-lanceolate, 

 obtuse, from under 1 to 2 inches long, deeply and irregularly 

 crenate and lobed, almost flat in the larger leaves but with dis- 

 tinctly I'ecurved margins in the smaller ones; nearly glabrous on 

 the upper side, paler green and sparingly stellate-hairy under- 

 neath ; veins depressed ; stipules long persistent. Flowers in 



