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on the leaves and absent from the fruits. Leaves linear, mostly 

 \h cm. long, narrow without obtuse ends, alternate, closely set, 

 the upper ones with sessile axillary flowers. Fruit sessile, dark 

 greyish-brown, table-like, with ridged sides, 2 mm. high, and 

 4 mm. broad at the top, 2 mm. at base. The fruit thus has a flat 

 top and broadened rim, but no wing. The latter fact at once 

 distinguishes it from K. huinillima, to which it is otherwise 

 fairly closely allied in habit and general appearance. The plant 

 is much smaller than the Kochia polypterygia of Diels, has 

 smaller fruits with the discoid wing much less developed, and a 

 flattened top to the fruit with the ridges barely showing. 



Patersonia Dbummondi, F. v. M. (Irideae). Cowcowing, W.A., 

 M. Koch, 1904. 



The plant appears to be very rare, only three sheets of imperfect 

 specimens being in the National Herbarium, collected by 

 Drunmiond. Koch's specimens have the marginal hairs less 

 prominently developed than the type, but some of Drummond's 

 specimens show the .same peculiarity, the larger hairs apparently 

 rubbing off" readily. A part of Drummond's specimens had 

 evidently been burnt back by a bush tire some time previously to 

 their collection. 



PoDOLEPis Kendalli, F. v. M., var. nanus, new var. (Conipositae). 



Height four to six inches. Flowers all terminal and smaller 

 than the terminal ones of the type. Waterloo, W.A., Max Koch, 

 1906. Champion Bay, W.A., L. Gould, 1890. 



PoDOLEPis Spencehi, n. sp. (Compositae), (named after Prof. 

 W. Baldwin Spencer). AVoorooloo, W.A., M. Koch, 1906. 



Annual, 20-40 cm. height, one or more flowering stems from 

 the same root, forming a loose panicle of heads, the flnal forks 

 almost dichotomous. Stems glabrous, leaves hairy, and almost 

 woolly on the under sides. Basal leaves lanceolate, spathulate 

 about 5 cm. long by 1 cm. broad, the upper leaves all alternate, 

 becoming narrower and smaller, and all sessile, with broad 

 slightly-decurrent bases. 



