BY J. H. MAIDEN AND E. BETCHE. 251 



pilosa. Capsula globosa dissepimento brevissimo. Seniina 8-10, 

 plana vel concava, margine pallido cincta. 



An ascending perennial with a tufted, somewhat woolly-hairy 

 rootstock, minutely glandular-pubescent all over, about 1 foot high 

 in the fruiting specimens from Cobar, and half as high in the 

 flowering specimens from Shuttleton. Radical leaves linear-lanceo- 

 late, about 3 inches long including the long petiole, and not above 

 3 lines broad, entire or occasionally with one or two remote teeth; 

 stem-leaves few and distant, gradually smaller and reduced to 

 linear or filiform bracts under the peduncles. Flowers small, soli- 

 tary on filiform rigid peduncles, or clustered at the top of the 

 flowering branches. Peduncles without bracteoles, almost horizon- 

 tally spreading under the fruit, rarely above f inch long. Corolla 

 yellow, scarcely 3 lines long, minutely hairy outside. Capsule 

 globular, with a very short dissepiment, and less than 10 flat or 

 concave seeds, black with a light-coloured border. 



The new species belongs to Bentham's Section Pedieellosae, and is 

 most nearly allied to G. pusilli flora F.v.M. It is distinguished from 

 it chiefly by the glandular hairs, and by the entire or almost entire 

 leaves. The glandular-hairy species of Pedieellosae were previously 

 confined to West Australia. This is the first one described from 

 East Australia. 



OLEACEJE. 



Jasminum singuliflorum Bailey & F.v.M. New for New South 



Wales. 



Woodburn, Richmond River (Mrs. F. E. Haviland; July, 1886). 



Though collected 27 years ago, and sent at the time to Baron von 

 Mueller for determination, it has not been previously recorded from 

 this State. It turns out to 'be fairly common hi the rich brushes 

 on and between the Richmond and Tweed Rivers, but it runs into 

 the forms of J. didymum Forst., var. pubescens, and does not seem 

 to be a well-defined species. The inflorescence of the pubescent 

 forms of J. didymum is often reduced to very few flowers; in the 

 extreme forms, they are reduced to a single flower, and that is J. 

 singuliflorum. 



