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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES OF WEST 

 AUSTRALIAN PLANTS. 



By W. V. Fitzgerald, F.S.Sc, Loxd., F.R.H.S., Exg. 

 ( C ommiiuicated by J . II. Maiden, F,L.ii.) 



EPACRIDE5:. 

 Leucopogox glaucifolius, sp.nov. 



Erect or spreading, usually under 1 foot high, the branches 

 finely hairy. Leaves alternate, linear, rigid, pungent-pointed, 

 convex, with slightl}^ recurved margins or nearly flat, glabrous or 

 scantily tomentose above, finely striate and glaucous beneath, 4-6 

 lines long. Peduncles all axillar}'', extremely short, erect or 

 scarcely spreading, mostly 3-flowered and along with the bracts, 

 bt-acteoles and calyxes finely hairy. Pedicels ver}' short. Bracts 

 minute, mucronate. Bracteoles ovate, prominently mucronate, 

 about \ as long as the calyx. Sepals subulate, about \\ lines 

 long. Corolla white, about '1\ lines long, tube slightly ventricose, 

 much shorter than the calyx; segments slightly longer than the 

 tube, revolute with glabrous, acutely pointed tips. Anthers 

 attached above the middle, oblong, rounded at both ends, without 

 sterile tips. Hypogynous disk large, lobes ovate, obtuse, free to 

 the base, J the length of the ovary. Ovary glabrous, usually 

 5-celled, but often incompletely 6-8-celled. Style rather stout, of 

 moderate length, with a slightly hirsute capitate stigma. Fruit 

 almost globular, flat-topped, about If lines long, with 5 broad 

 bicarinate angles or ribs, epicarp j^ellow, mesocarp slightly pulpy, 

 eudocarp not very hard and rather thin. 



Loc. — Midland Junction and vicinity; in sandy heathy spots. 

 Flowers and fruit (December, 1902; W. V. Fitzgerald and C. R. 

 P. Andrews). 



