BY BARON VON MUELLER. 187 



at last flatly expanding. Seeds unknown. This new genus 

 differs from Darlingia in bracts, number of hypogynous scalelets 

 and ovules, also possibly in the structure of its seeds. Should 

 however normally four ovules be occurring, a question which could 

 not be finally ascertained from the material hitherto extant, and 

 should the seeds not be very different from those of Darlingia 

 spectatissima, then our new plant would constitute a second 

 species of that genus. But the pericarp is more like that of 

 Cardwellia, while the flowers are nearly those of Helicia, seemingly 

 also as i-egards ovules. The leaves are almost undistinguishable 

 from those of Orites fragrmis. The dedication is chosen to do 

 also phytographically honour to the memory of Sir Anthony 

 Musgi^ave, G.C.M.G., the late Governor of Queensland, under 

 whose vice-regal administration those regions became largely 

 opened up, in which this rare and remarkable tree has its native 

 sylvan home. 



Eremophila Battii, n.sp. 



Branchlets as well as the leaves beset with very short spreading 

 rigidulous hairlets ; leaves quite small, scattered, mostly from 

 rhomboid to lanceolate-cuneate, gradually narrowed into their 

 petioles, generally indented at and towards the summit ; flowers 

 axillary, solitary, on very short pedicels ; calyx bearing scattered 

 spreading hairlets, its outer segments lanceolar-ovate, its inner 

 narrow-lanceolar ; corolla about thrice as long as the calyx, 

 bluish, outside imperfectly beset with jointed spreading hairlets, 

 inside partially cottony, its two upper lobes short and blunt, its 

 lateral lobes semilanceolar-ovate and oblique, the lowest lobe 

 usually roundish and at the base contracted ; stamens enclosed ; 

 ovulary bearing short white vestiture ; fruit comparatively large, 

 nearly globular, beneath the outer pellicle each of its two cells 

 subdivided and two-seeded. 



Near Eucla ; J. D. Batt. 



Leaves ^ to ^ inch long, often longitudinally folded inward, 

 the denticles conspicuous and mostly deltoid. Corolla about 

 |-inch long. E.i[)e fruit measuring fully J-inch ; the grey 



