36 Alfred J. Eivart : 



scarious margins, and a central dark line usually projecting as a 

 point at the tip. The young flower heads are about | cm. dia- 

 meter, but enlarge to 1| or 2 cm. diameter in fruit, the bracts, 

 especially of the inner set, doubling in size. 



Florets about ^ cm. diameter, with a slender ovary but no 

 stalk and no scales between. Corolla tubular, with 5 regular 

 free points, and the appendices of the anthers projecting beyond 

 them. The slender style is bifid, with conical or truncate ends 

 papillose on the outer side, the stigmatic lines on the edges of the 

 bifid portion within the anther-tube. Pollen grains globular and 

 minutely spiny. Fruits 1 cm. long or more, the achene con- 

 tracted to a short stalk at its base, which is hollow and has an 

 oblique basal opening below one edge of the flattened achenial 

 part of the fruit. The sides of the achene are finely sculptured 

 with transverse grooves, and bear a pair of small brown scales, 

 whose upper margins are drawn out into a fringe of stiflT bristles 

 i to 1 cm. long, themselves fringed with minute teeth, the 

 upper two-thirds bright pink, the basal third white. 



BuRTONiA MULTIJUGA, F. v. M., Forrest's Expedition = Bur- 



tonia polyzyga, Benth., var. multijuga, F. v. M. (Legum- 



inosae). 



The specimens are rather larger, coarser and stouter than 



the type species, which they otherwise closely resemble. The 



hairs are shorter forming a dense but thin woolly covering. The 



leaflets average 30 in number, and vary from 3 to 6 mm. in 



length, and from 2 to 4 mm. in breadth. The common petiole 



usually averages 6 to 8 cm. in length. The specimens bear no 



flowers, and from the other characters can only be classed as 



a variety of B. polyzyga, Benth. 



Calothamnus gilesii, F. v. M. Watheroo sandy plains, W.A., 

 M. Koch, 1906. 



Of this rare plant described in 1876 (Fragmenta X., p. 31), the 

 Herbarium only possessed two fragmentary specimens without 

 any fruits. These are usually in close sessile clusters of 2 to 5, 

 nearly cylindrical, greyish-brown to bufi^ colour, 2 of the persist- 

 ent calyx teeth often growing larger than the others in old fruits, 



