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A spreading, somewhat pendulous shrub, about 3 to 4 feet high, 

 the young branches somewhat flattened and densely rust-coloured 

 tomentose. Leaves narrow-lanceolate, mostly 3 to 5 inches long 

 and f to above 1 inch broad, rounded and often slightly cordate 

 at the base, tapering towards the apex; green and glabrous above 

 when full-grown, densely white-tomentose underneath, the mid- 

 vein more or less rust-coloured. Flowers sessile and crowded in 

 two one-sided rows on the spike-like branches of the pedunculate 

 leaf-opposed cymes, the whole infloresence densely rust-coloured 

 tomentose. Bracteoles oblong, densely tomentose on both sides, 

 slightly longer than the calyx, and appressed to it. Calyx- 

 segments almost free (approaching the genus Lysiosepalum), 

 linear-lanceolate, tomentose outside, glabrous inside except on the 

 edges, about 3 to 4 lines long. Petals scale-like, very small. 

 Stamens about as long as the calyx, the filaments fully four times as 

 long as the anthers; anthers exserted, opening in terminal pores. 

 Ovarium tomentose, 3-celled, the style loosely covered with 

 stellate hairs from the base to near the summit. Seeds 

 strophiolate, slightly downy. 



Our new species is most nearly allied to L. macrojyhyllum Grah., 

 and may perhaps be regarded as a form of it, but peculiar circum- 

 stances render identification with the type a matter of exceptional 

 difficulty. L. macrophylhtm was described and figured by Graham 

 from plants grown at Kew from seeds transmitted from New 

 South Wales by Richard Cunningham in July, 1835, and no 

 wild specimens exactly identical have ever been collected. 

 R. Brown's specimens from " Paramatta and Sydney," and Allan 

 Cunningham's specimens from " Southward of the Colony," which 

 Bentham united in the Flora Australiensis with L. macrophyUicm, 

 have smaller flowers and narrower bracteoles. In habit and 

 foliage the specimens from Mt. Dangar hardly differ from L. 

 tyiacroj?hyllum, except in the rather narrower leaves; the inflor- 

 escence is exactly as described in Graham's cultivated plant, but 

 the flowers differ in such essential points that we do not feel 

 justified in identifying our specimens with L. macrofhyllum. 



