1106 SOME HITHERTO UNDESCRIBED PLANTS OF N.S.W., 



In its completely prostrate growth this very local species is similar, 

 among East Australian congeners, to G. laurifolia and G. repens, 

 differing from both, however, in the larger and much less numerous 

 flowers. The same characteristics remove it from G. asplenifolia, 

 which has similar leaves, but is of erect stature. 



The majority of the flowers on the transmitted specimens, as well 

 as numerous others sent subsequently at my desire by Mr. Bauerlen, 

 are bipistillate, two ovaries developing on distinct stipites, each 

 with its own style and stigma, or occasionally two of the pistils 

 still from the same flower are connate into one ; rarely even a third 

 pistil is developed. This tendency to floral duplication also 

 extends partly to the petals, which sometimes become augmented 

 in number also, while the often scattered stalklets may appear 

 solitary through the concrescence of two. Analogous teratologicai 

 states of flowers seem not to have been noted before in the vast 

 order of Proteacew. 



G. Goodii and G. cirsiifolia share the same depressed or creeping 

 mode of growth ; the former produces racemes sometimes 5 inches 

 long ; the latter species has recently been shown by Mr. W. Webb 

 to occur on Mount Lindsav. 



This remarkable plant has been dedicated to the Hon. Dr. 

 Renwick, who in his legislative, professional, and social position, 

 has much promoted scientific research in this colony ; who, as 

 Executive Commissioner for N.S. W. at the Melbourne International 

 Exhibition, advanced much the industrial and rural interests of the 

 elder of these colonies ; who initiated there a systematic department 

 for forest-culture; and who, in his present ministerial position, also 

 gave for technologic purposes some support to the travels of the 

 discoverer of this new Grevillea. 



Melaleuca Deanei, n. sp. 



Branchlets glabrous ; leaves scattered, almost lanceolar, thick, 

 nearly flat, three-nerved, glabrous ; spikes rather short ; calyces 

 imperfectly velvet-downy, their lobes semi-ovate, about half as long 

 as the petals, deciduous ; connate portions of the stamens shorter 

 than the calyx-lobes ; filaments in each bundle 15-20 ; anthers pale, 



