Flora of Atistralla. 267 



Wehlia pulcherrima, Ewart and Rees, n.sp. (Myrtaceae.) 



Towards Coolgardie, West Australia, W. A. Macpherson, 

 1895. 



Branching shrub, branches somewhat elongated. Leaves 2 to 

 2J lines long, linear ovate, 3 angled with bluntly-pointed tip, 

 surface somewhat glandular. Flowers developed in axils of 

 leaves at the ends of the branches, crowded in a head-like in- 

 florescence. Bracts with slightly membranous edges enclosing 

 calyx tube, which is almost or quite hidden. Surface of calyx 

 tube slightly grooved longitudinally. Sepals 1 line long, mem- 

 branous, ovoid, bluntly pointed. Petals about twice as long as 

 sepals, ovate lanceolate, purplish in colour. Stamens 30 or in- 

 definite, dorsifixed with gland on the dorsal surface between 

 the anther lobes. 



W. jjedicellata is readily distinguished from W. thrypto- 

 menoides by its larger foliage, stalked flowers and more nume- 

 rous stamens. W. pulchtrrima is distinguished from the pre- 

 ceding by its still more numerous stamens (30 or more), ter- 

 minal clustered inflorescence and larger flowers. Two other 

 species have been described by Baron von Mueller from West 

 Australia, W. sUiminosa (Wings Southern Science Record, III., 

 1884, p. 282), and W. coarctata (Fragmenta. X., p. 23, 1876). 

 The former has a larger number of stamens (up to about 40) 

 than any other species ; W. coarctata has the leaves neither 

 angular nor pointed, the pedicels longer than the calyx and 

 the stamens as in W. thryptomenoides. The leaves readily dis- 

 tinguish it from W. p\'clicellata, which has also pedicels longer 

 than the calyx. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 



Plate LM. 



Cayparis umhonata (Figs. 1-2), ErythrosfarJiys prolifera. 



Fig. 1. — Fruit of Capparis umhonata. 



2. — The same in transverse section — (a) seed, (b) seed 



cavity in fruit, (c) fibrous woody pulp. 

 3-7. — Erijthrostachys prolifera (T. Ag.). J. White. 



