BY J. H. MAIDEN AND E. BETCHE. 85 



brown, somewhat scarious, acute point. Ray-florets purple, the. 

 rays spreading in the largest head to fully 1 inch in diameter; 

 disc-florets yellow. Achenes of the ray-florets obovate, short, 

 flat, striate, hirsute with short hairs. Pappus consisting of about 

 18 to 20 long soft setse, in the dried specimens often nearly as 

 long as the crumpled rays, plumose from top to base with hori- 

 zontally spreading hairs. Achenes of the disc-florets abortive, 

 with a pappus like that of the ray-flowers, but shorter; ripe 

 achenes not seen. 



Urisino, 20 miles west of Wanaaring on the Paroo River (E. 

 Betche, September, 1900). 



This very handsome new species is, from the point of view of 

 the wool-grower, favourably distinguished by its innoxious 

 fruiting-heads from all the other burr-plants composing the genus 

 Calotis. The long soft setae of the pappus are quite unique in 

 the genus, and may perhaps, by some, be regarded as sufl&cient 

 reason to establish a new genus, but as its habit and all other 

 characters agree well with Calotis, we prefer to consider it as an 

 aberrant species of that genus. It cannot be placed in any of 

 Bentham's four sections of Calotis, but forms a fifth section by 

 itself. 



GOODENIACE^. 



Velleia spathulata, R.Br. 



National Park, near Sydney (A. A. Hamilton, March, 1900); 

 Narrabeen Swamps (A. A. Hamilton, April, 1900). 

 Hitherto not recorded further south than Newcastle. 



EPACRIDE^. 

 Epacris robusta, Benth. 



Jenolan Caves (W. F. Blakely, September, 1900). 



A rare plant, previously recorded only from the summit of 

 White Peak Mountain, at the head of the Genoa River. 



The size and colour of the flower seem to differ greatly in this 

 species. The flowers of the Genoa River specimens are described 



