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which is exclusively West Australian, and includes Brummond 341 

 as well as an unrealised Maxwell specimen in the British Museum! 



and most probably the other specimens of Maxwell Bentham men- 

 tions (M. Austral, v. 107). 



While dealing with this genus it may he well to notice a mistake 

 into which Dr. Hochreutmer has fallen. He remarks of P. marifolia 



fm A , \J° rk B f. Gar<1 - vL 285 ) that Bentham 

 (Fl. Austral, v. 98) says of it "leaves not ruo-ose " This he 



continues, "is an obvious error which may lead' to false naming 

 All specimens of this species in the Kew Herbarium, and especially 

 the type, arc very rugose." The mistake, however, is not Bentham"; 

 as Browns « type "-which, by the way, is, of course, in the 

 National Herbarium-shows. Had Dr. Hochreutiner compared the 

 leaves of the type with those of P. rugosa A. Cunn., the species 

 Bentham contrasts with P. marifolia in his clavis, he would at once 

 have seen the difference between the two, for while those of P ruaosa 

 are " very rugose," as Bentham states, those of P. marifolia\ve 

 scabrous hispid above but nut rugose," a description exactly fitting 

 the case. Curiously enough. Brown (Prodr. 50!)) describes the Leaves 

 as pilose, surely an incorrect term for them ' 



Westringia discipulorum, sp. nov. Frutex nisi snffrutex- 

 ramulis bene Miosis uti folia pube crispa griseo ohtectis : foliis 3- ve\ 

 4-nis (anne semper?) teretibus linearibus obtusis marginibus arete 

 revolutis conaceis ascendentibus ; paribus in capitulum densum 

 termmalem aggregatis foliis floralibus spathulatis dorso villosulis 

 mtermixtis; calycis anguste campanulati medium usque divisi see- 

 mentis _ anguste oblongis obtusis margine villosulis ; corolla tubo 

 cylindnco utnnque pilosulo labiis tub,, paullo brevioribus horum lobis 

 ovato-ohlongis obtusissimis. lobo intermedio obovato retuso • stami 

 nibus exsertis antherarum connective breviter producto staminodiis 

 abbreviate hhlormibus apice barbellatis. 

 Yorkrabine, by State school; 811. 



,, .. F ° lia f. i 2 o mm - l ? n S-' summ:l ™™ Paullo breviora, 1mm. lat. 

 Solia floraha 6-8 mm. long. Calyx tutus 4 mm. long. Corolla. tubus 

 4-5 mm. long., 1-Go mm lat. ; Labia 3mm. long. Filament* 3 mm., 

 antherae 1mm., stammodia 1 mm. long. 



The indumentum foliage etc., mark this as a very distinct species, 

 he. plant, sea led the "White Button Bush," apparently from its 

 densely packed heads of white flowers. 



4. A New Triaspis. 

 The Malpighiaceous genus Triaspis comprises L>.-> species <H) „f 

 winch are found m tropical or South Africa,, while Madagascar 

 is the home oJ the rest. As is so frequently the ease, recent Jfearch 

 has added eonsiderab y to the size of the genus, which it is now 

 proposed further to enlarge by including the species here described 



tapis Thorncroftn, sp. nov., ramulis teretibus bene foliosis 

 brunneis pnmo .sparsim appresse pilosulis cito glabris; foliis suh 

 sessihbus cordatis acutis basi amplexicaulibus pergamaceis gl auc is 

 glabris arete reticulata; racemis subumbellatis s^pissime unions'- 

 pedicelhs elongatis filiformibus glabris ad circa o mm supra basin 



