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Dansk Botanisk Arkiv, Bd. 2. Nr. 8. 



This decumbent small-leaved shrub seems to be common in 

 the arid interior of the southern part of the State, perhaps taking 

 the place of F. pauciflora of the coast region. It is easily distinct 



from the latter by the three basal ovules 

 and the dense hairiness as well as by 

 the smaller leaves, shorter internodes etc. 

 From F. Georgei Diels it differs in 

 the dense hairiness, the cohærent petals 

 and the three ovules and three style- 

 branches. 



var. conspicua no v. var. (Fig. 18). 

 Differt a typo dimensionibus majoribus; 

 internodiis foliis longioribus; foliis lati- 

 oribus oblongo-ovatis vel oblongis, mar- 

 gine solum revoluta, subtus glabris, 

 5 — 7 mm longis, obtusis, distincte pe- 

 tiolatis; calycibus majoribus, 6 — 7 mm 

 longis; corollis conspicuoribus ; ceterum 

 ut in typo. 

 Coolgardie Goldfields, J. Wood, Oct. 1908 

 New South Wales, sub nom. F. paucifloræ). 

 A plant kindly sent me by Mr. J. H. Maiden of Sydney, I con- 

 sider as a luxuriant variety of F. Interioris. It has a rather 

 different habit, but agrees in all essential 

 characters with the main species. 



14. Frankenia Georgei Diels, in Diels et 

 Pritzel, Botan. Jahrb. 35 (1904) 389. 



I have not seen this species, which 

 was based upon specimens collected at Mur- 

 rin-Murrin (Distr. Austin) by W. J. George, 

 1902. 



15. Frankenia conipacta nov. sp. (Fig. 19). 

 Fruticulus decumbens et repens, ramis 



brevibus, dense foliatis superne sparse setoso- 



hirsutis, internodis foliis multo brevioribus. 



Folia oblonga, obtusa, plana, margine solum 



revoluta, supra glabra, subtus dense hirsuta, 



distincte petiolata, vagina ciliata, 4—5 mm 



longa. Flores in densis cymis dichotomis, sessiles, mediocri ; calyx 



linearis, ca. 5 mm longus, glaber; corolla (an pallide-lutea?); petala 



Fig. 18. Frankenia Interio- 

 ris var. conspicua nov. var., 

 from Coolgardie. (V-/ 2 nat. 

 size). 



Hab. Austr. occ. : 

 (Herb. Copenh., ex Herb. 



Fig. 19. Frankenia com,' 



pacta nov. sp., from 



Wagin Lake. (I 1 /* nat. 



size). 



