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DESCRIPTIONS OF HITHERTO UNRECORDED 

 AUSTRALIAN PLANTS. 



By Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M.D., Ph.D., F.R.S. 

 (Continued from page 188.) 



Eriocaulon Carsonl 



Ratlier dwarf, glabrous ; leaves all basal, tufted, from a broad 

 base semilanceolate-linear, gradually much narrowed upwards ; 

 stems rather robust, twice as long as the leaves or somewhat 

 longer, angular, constituting leafless peduncles ; headlets of 

 flowers comparatively small, globular ; bracts broadish, blunt, 

 appressed, from brownish turning gradually pale or yellowish ; 

 flowers hardly numerous, some imperfect ; receptacle narrow- 

 conical ; sepals about as long as the corolla, those of the stami- 

 nate flowers three, pellucid, spatular- or linear-cuneate, somewhat 

 lacerated at the upper end ; tube of the staminate corolla con- 

 spicuously longer than the lobes, obverse-conic, lobes slightly 

 fringed, marked by a dark glandular spot ; stamens mostly six, 

 their anthers roundish and almost black ; sepals of the pistillate 

 flowers broad, constantly without any carinular membrane, but 

 cymbiform-folded, opaque, whitish, often two ; petals ovate- or 

 narrow-lanceolar, apiculate, brownish upwards ; style very 

 short ; stigmas generally three, tender-capillary ; fruit turgid, 

 often three-valved, slightly pointed ; seeds pale-brownish, broad- 

 ellipsoid, shining, almost smooth, somewhat pellucid. 



Forming ample tufts on a somewhat saline spring (called by the 

 aborigines "Wee-Wata") at Kallara, towards the junction of the 

 Paroo and Darling-River ; Duncan Carson. 



Possibly perennial. Leaves from 1 to 3 inches long, towards 

 the base \ to \ inch broad. Peduncular stems 1|- to 5 inches 

 long. Well developed headlets of flowers measuring about ^ inch. 

 Bracts of the lower flowers rather firm and somewhat acute. This 

 species differs already from all other Australian congeners in the 

 shape of the corolla of the staminate flowers. 



