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winged, with recurved margins, so that the segments of the 

 rhachis between the pairs of leaflets resemble the leaflets in size 

 and shape, the whole leaf rarely above 1 inch long, slightly 

 stellate-hairy. Peduncles axillary, much shorter than the leaves, 

 densely stellate-hairy, 1- or 3-flowered. Sepals lanceolate, rather 

 acute, densely tomentose outside and inside, about 2 lines long. 

 Petals valvate in bud, lanceolate, about or above twice as long as 

 the sepals, somewhat tomentose outside and with a prominent 

 midrib, very slightly hairy inside, vieux rose in colour, the fully 

 expanded flower 1 inch in diameter. Stamens unequal in length, 

 the sepaline ones twice as long as the petaline ones; filaments 

 ciliate in the lower half, rough with short asperities in the upper 

 part; anthers all prominently apiculate. Ovarium glabrous, with 

 a short glabrous style slightly thickened at the stigmatic end. 



The affinity of B. granitica is undoubtedly closest to B. ledifolia 

 J. Gay; in fact the flower in all its parts is quite identical with 

 that species, but the foliage and habit are so strikingly different 

 that we cannot include it in its varieties without being logically 

 compelled to unite the whole group of allied Boronias, from B. 

 ledifolia to B. mollis and B. Fraseri. The pinnate-leaved forms 

 of B. ledifolia are always variable, the 3-foliolate form of leaves 

 merging into the pinnate form. But our new species is as 

 constant as B. pinnata itself. 



It grows in the fissures of granite rocks at one of the highest 

 elevations in the vicinity of Howell township, 19 miles south- 

 east of Inverell. 



Since the above description was prepared it has been received 

 (through Mr. R. H. Cambage) from Mr. E. C. Andrews, who 

 obtained it at The Gulf, Emmaville, July, '05. 



Xanthoxylum brachyacanthum F.v.M. 



Sandiland Ranges (J. L. Boorman; Nov. '04), Acacia Creek 

 (W. Dunn; Jan. '05). 



This is not a rare plant in the Northern brush-forests, but we 

 mention it here to correct an error in Bentham's description. 

 Bentham describes the inflorescence as axillary; the inflorescence 



