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NOTES ON SOME HITHERTO UNRECORDED SPECIES 



OF PLANTS INDIGENOUS IN THE STATE OF 



WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 



By W. V. Fitzgerald, F.S.Sc, Lond., F.R.H.S., Eng. 

 (Communicated by J. H. Maiden, F.L.S.) 



C M P O S I T JE. 

 MiNURIA INTEGERRIMA, Bentll. 



Lawless (W. V. Fitzgerald; Jul}^, 1899). Ray purple or bluish. 

 This is the first recorded locality for this species in extratropical 

 Western Australia. 



LOGANIACEiE. 

 MiTRASACME PALUSTRIS, Sp.nOV. 



A minute glabrous, often almost stemless herb, with a com- 

 paratively thick spongy white radix. Leaves linear-spathulate, 

 connate, rather thick and succulent, not numerous, and in many 

 instances apparently but not actually radical. Flowers pedicel- 

 late, numerous, in terminal umbel-like clusters; pedicels filiform, 

 ascending, ebracteate. Calyx about f line long when in flower, 

 little longer in fruit, broad, with two short herbaceous, deltoid, 

 often divergent acute lobes, not above ^ the length of the tube. 

 Corolla nearly as long as the calyx, white, campanulate, glabrous, 

 with short acute lobes. Stamens inserted below the middle of 

 the tube ; anthers not exserted, small. Styles distinct and 

 parallel, with the stigmatic ends adjacent but not cohering. 

 Capsule much shorter than the calyx, ovoid and slightly flattened, 

 membranous; seeds numerous, almost black, with a reticulate 

 testa. 



Zoc — Midland Junction; in mud (W. V. Fitzgerald; October, 

 1901). 



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