[Proc. Eoy. Soc. Victoria, 20 (N.S.), Pt. 1., 1907.] 



Ar'I'. VII. — CoiitriJjutions to the Flora of Australio,, 



No. 0} 



By ALFRED J. EWART, Ph.D., D.Sc, F.L.S., &c., 



Government Botanist and Professor of Botany 

 at the Melbourne University. 



(With Plates IX.-XIII.). 



[Read 11th Jnly, 1907]. 



Angianthus HUMtFUSUS, Beiitli., var. gkandiflorus, new var. 

 (Compositae), M. Koch. Woorooloo, W. Australia, 1906. 



Attention is drawn to this plant on account of its remarkable 

 external re.semblance to large specimens of Myriocephalus 

 rhizocephalus, Benth., forming a striking case of plant mimicry. 

 The two plants are readily distinguished by the pappus, which in 

 M. rhizocephalus consists of a single bristle, and in A. humifusus 

 of five or six fringed ragged scales. [Specimens exhibited]. 



Bakckea CRisPiFLOKA, F. V. M. Fragm. IV., p. 72, var. tkxuiok 

 (Myrtaceae). 



Elder exploring expedition No. 2. Kangaroo Hill, R. Helms. 

 1891. Cowcowing, W.A., xVI. Koch, 1904. The variety is more 

 slender than the type forms and has a shorter pedicel, so that 

 the usually slightly smaller bracts are close under the ovary, 

 which is less urceolate than in the type form. A specimen from 

 .Jibherding, W.A., M. Koch, 190-3, is in some respects intermediate 

 between the variety and type form. 



(l\r.LiTRi.s MoRRisoNi, R. T. Baker (Coniferae). Linn. Soc. of 

 N.S.W., vol. xxxi., 1906, p. 717. 



Under this head Baker includes one of Oldtield's specin)ens 

 fi-om W. Australia, which was placed by Mueller as a variety of 



1 No. 5 ill Vict. Nat., vol. xxi\ ., 1!)()7, p. .=)6 



