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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW ISOPOGON OF NEW SOUTH 

 WALES. 



By Baron Feed, von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M. & Ph.D., 

 LL.D., F.R.S. 



ISOPOGON FlETCHERI. 



Branchlets robust, glabrous ; leaves narrow- or elongate- 

 lanceolar, always entire, many times longer than broad, callously 

 sphaceolar-apiculate, gradually narrowed into a hardly petiolar 

 base, flat or at the margin slightly recurved, on both sides dull 

 green, their main venules much longitudinal ; headlets of flowers 

 terminal, solitary, sessile, almost concealed among leaves, at first 

 somewhat turbinate, at last globular-ovate; outer bracts glabrous, 

 the lowest sometimes broader than long, always apiculate, the 

 exserted portion of the other bracts almost deltoid, short-acumi- 

 nate ; floral bracts reaching beyond the others, nearly elliptic or 

 obovate-cuneate, outside white-velutinous, but at and towards the 

 summit glabrous ; rachis cylindrically lengthened ; flowers rather 

 small, quite glabrous ; lobes of the corolla whitish, very narrow, 

 bluntish, about twice as long as the tube ; stamens inserted near 

 the base of the corolla-lobes ; anthers bright yellow, beyond the 

 cells protracted into a narrow appendicle ; filaments flat, partly 

 adnate, hardly shorter than the anthers; style gradually thickened 

 upwards, the incrassated portion angular, truncate, subtle-papil- 

 lulous, rather longer than the pyramidal-subulate stigmatic termi- 

 nation ; ovulary penicillar-villosulous. 



Blackheath, Blue Mts., overlooking the Grose Valley ; very 

 rare; J. J. Fletcher, Esq. 



Aspect that of the South-Western Australian /. longifolius, but 

 affinity nearest to /. anemonifolius, which occasionally produces 



