BY W. V. FITZGERALD. 243 



PROTEACE.E. 



Grevillea Jamesoniana, sp.nov. 



An erect rigid shrub; branclilets stout, ferruginous or greyish- 

 tomentellous; young leaves and shoots with a closely appressed 

 silky- white vestiture, the older leaves glabrous. Leaves crowded 

 at the ends of the branclilets, entire, linear-terete, on short 

 petioles, erect, slender but rigid, pungent-pointed, closely refracted 

 along the margins, doubly grooved beneath. Racemes very short, 

 almost umbel-like, axillary or terminal; rhachis densely invested 

 with appressed white silky hairlets. Flowers comparativel}' large, 

 not numerous, scarlet, on conspicuous, stout glabrous pedicels; 

 perianth quite glabrous, striate, tube broad, limb short, globular, 

 closely revolute. Pistil glabrous. Hypogynous gland semiannular, 

 truncate. Torus very oblique. Ovulary glabrous, gibbous, on 

 a prominent free stipes; stigmatic-disk lateral, orbicular. 



Log. — Lakeside ; in wet soil (W. V. Fitzgerald ; September, 

 1898). 



Total height of plant 8-10 feet; leaves 3-5 inches long and 

 about 1 line broad; rhachis 1-2 lines long; pedicels 2-3 lines long; 

 perianth nearly or quite 1 inch, with a limb 2 lines long; ovulary 

 stipes \ inch and style f inch in length. Stigmatic-disk very 

 thick. Ripe fruit not known. 



This species differs from G. acuaria, F.v.M., in the greater 

 length of the leaves, and in the perianth and other minor 

 characters. The foliage is not unlike that of some forms of G 

 nematojihyUa, F.v.M. 



This species is named in honour of the Hon. Dr. Adam Jameson, 

 M.L.C., Minister for Lands for the State of Western Australia, 

 a gentleman who has displaj^ed more than ordinary interest in 

 scientific matters. 



Cyperace.e. 



SCHOENUS RODWAYANUS, sp.nOV. 



Caespitose ; stems slender, slightly compressed, prominently 

 striate, more or less scabrous, simple, leafless. Leaves reduced 



