250 NOTES FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS, SYDNEY, xviii., 



Stem-leaves lanceolate, the lowest rarely 2 inches long and 3 to 5 

 lines broad, sessile, stem-clasping and shortly decurrent, the upper 

 ones gradually shorter and with a broader stem-clasping base. 

 Flower-heads very numerous, on rigid, filiform, sometimes clustered 

 peduncles rarely above 1 inch long. Involucre shortly cylindrical 

 or almost as broad as long when fully developed, about \ inch in 

 diameter. Involucral bracts smooth, with somewhat fimbriate mar- 

 gins, the outer ones sessile, broad, obtuse and wholly scarious, the 

 intermediate ones with a short narrow claw and a large heart- 

 shaped scarious lamina, somewhat like the "spade" in playing 

 cards, with the point more drawn out and reflexed, the innermost 

 ones with a broad-linear long erect claw, and a much smaller scari- 

 ous lamina. The thick and stiff claws of the innermost involucral 

 bracts are slightly connate at the base, and cohere into a solid cup 

 containing the florets. Florets about 40, all nearly equal and none 

 ligulate, the outer ones slightly exceeding the involucre, the inner 

 ones shorter. Achenes compressed ; pappus-bristles about 10, very 

 deciduous on the marginal flowers, all barbellate from the base. 



The new species is most nearly allied to P. Lessoni Benth., which 

 it resembles much in habit and foliage, but from which it differs in 

 the more numerous and smaller flower-heads, and shorter peduncles. 

 It differs from all described species of Podolepis by the peculiar 

 cup formed by the stiff, erect claws of the innermost involucral 

 bracts. 



GOODENIACEJE. 



Goodenia Havilandi, n.sp. 



Shuttleton, Nymagee (W. Balierlen; September, 1903); Cobar 

 (Archdeacon F. E. Haviland; October, 1911). 



Suffrutex multicaulis, caulibus adscendentibus, undique glandu- 

 loso-pubescens, 1 J-3 dc. altus. Folia radicales linearo-lanceolata, 

 cum petiolo circiter 7 cm. longa et 5-6 mm. lata, integerrima vel 

 remote serrata. Folia caulina pauca, et gradatim minora angus- 

 tioraque. Flores parvi, plerumque solitares in pedunculis rigidis, 

 filiformibus, sub fructibus patentibusque, 15-20 cm. longi. Brac- 

 teolae desunt. Corolla flava, circiter 6 cm. longa, extus brevissime 



