BY J. H. MAIDEN AND E. BETCHE. 363 



narrow-lanceolate, from under 1 to 2 inches long, and 2 lines 

 broad in the broadest part. A. Gnidiumis an imperfectly known 

 plant, only known from Mitchell's specimens from Mt. Pluto in 

 Queensland, and also Bid will's No. 19 in the Hookerian Herbarium, 

 Kew. It is, perhaps, hardly a good species, unless the unknown 

 fruits supply a better distinctive character. Bentham writes in 

 the Flora Australiensis in a footnote to his description of A. 

 Gnidium — " The nearest affinity appears to be A. dodonceifolia, 

 from which our specimens chiefly differ in the very narrow 

 phyllodia." Mr. Cambage's Gilgandra specimens tend to bring 

 out this affinity still closer, so that we were in some doubt 

 whether to regard it as a small and narrow-leaved form of A. 

 dodonceifolia or as a broad-leaved form of A. Gnidium, but it has 

 the slender habit and small flowers of the latter. The fruits are 

 still unknown. 



We have to thank the Director of Kew for a small specimen 

 of Mitchell's type of A. Gnidiicni, a rare plant not previously 

 represented in any Australian herbarium. 



MYHTACE^. 



KUNZEA BRACTEOLATA, Sp.nOV. 



Wallangarra (J. L. Boorman; Nov. '04). 



An erect, rather stiff shrub about 3 to 4 feet high, glabrous in 

 all its parts except a slight pubescence on the young branches. 

 Leaves alternate, very shortly petiolate, linear-lanceolate, 4 to 5 

 lines long, acute, flat but somewhat concave, erect and almost 

 imbricately crowded on the smaller branchlets. Flowers glabrous, 

 about 10 or less, sessile in a small terminal head, often becoming 

 lateral by the development of the axis, with hardly any floral 

 leaves in the heads. Bracts and bracteoles broadly ovate, boat- 

 shaped, acuminate, almost as large as the calyx-tube and enclos- 

 ing it, nearly of equal size but the bract rather larger, with a 

 longer point and often minutely ciliate. Calyx-tube ovoid, quite 

 glabrous, the lobes lanceolate, acute, about f the size of the tube. 



* See R. H. Cambage, this Vol. p. 215. Plate ii. is a photo showing the 

 habit of this tree. 



