Flora of Australia. 261 



However it has reached the shores of Port Phillip, this 

 plant, native to West Australia, seems to be in process of estab- 

 lishing itself as a "' naturalised alien " so far as this State is 

 concerned. 



PiMELEA Treyvaudi (F. v. M.), nonieii 7iiiduvi, in Vict. Nat.^ 

 N'^ol. XI., May, 1894. (Tliymelaeaceae), p. 2, Ewart and 

 Rees. 



Cudgewa, Upper Murray River, H. H. Treyvaud. 



There is no record of any published description of this 

 species, and as it appears to be a valid one, a description is 

 appended beneath. 



Small branching shrub about 12 inches in height, glabrous, 

 or nearly so. 



Leaves flat, linear to lanceolate, | to 1 inch in length, lower 

 ones shorter and narrower, with distinct intra-marginal vein, 

 opposite. 



Flower heads 7 to 8 lines in diameter, 8 to 9 bracts about 

 the same length as flowers, ovate lanceolate, acuminate, glab- 

 rous on under surface, edges fringed witli silvery hairs, which 

 are much longer at the base than towards the tip, upper sur- 

 face covered with silky hairs which are much thicker towards 

 the base. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, perianth tube about IJ lines long, 

 hairy outside with tufts of longer hairs at the base, practically 

 glabrous inside, segments about the same length as the tube, 

 the two inner rather blunter and paler coloured than the outer, 

 and finer in texture. Anthers oblong, connective nanow, 

 filaments shorter than anthers and inserted near the mouth 

 of the tube. No fruit with the specimen. It seems nearest to 

 P. nervosa, but dift'ers from it in the size of the leaves, in the 

 number and form of the bracts, in length of the perianth tul)e 

 and of the filaments. 



Polygonum attenuatum, R. Br. (Polygonaceae.) 



Jones' Creek and George River, south of Roeburne, West 

 Australia, J. Forrest, 1878. 



