Flora of Australia, No. lo. 1 1 1 



•sliti'litly roiiuliened and thickened towards the centre and 

 closely set with much l)ranched veins which are specially con- 

 spicuous on the inner side of the valves. Radicle lateral. 



Babiaxa stricta, Ker-CJawl (B. villosa, Ker-Gavvl). 

 (Irideae). "Upright Babiana." 



Gerniantown, near Geelong, Victoria, H. B. Williamson, 

 Nov.. 1909. 



A native of South Africa, apparently not sufficiently estab- 

 lished to be considered naturalised. The plant has the perianth 

 tube shorter than usual, the flowers being apparently not quite 

 fully developed. 



Oastrolobium Laytoni, J. White, n. sp., after Captain Layton. 

 (Leguminosae). 



Watheroo Rabbit fence. Max Koch, 1905, No. 1337. 



An erect shrub of 1.5 to 2.5 feet high. Branches stiff, when 

 young covered with short greyish hairs, the older branches 

 only slightly so. Leaves petiolate, laminae 1.5-2 inches in 

 length, and l-f inch in breadth, petiole about 1.5 lines long. 

 Leaves cuneate, blunt or sometimes very slightly convex at the 

 apex, with entire margins, which are hardly recurved, and 

 tend to be folded inwards, venation rather prominent on the 

 upper surface, which is almost glabrous, the under surface being 

 covered with felt-like greyish hairs, opposite, stipules fila- 

 mentous ; about 1 line long. 



Racemes axillary, rachis 1.5-2.5 inches covered with minute 

 greyish hairs, pedicels distinct, hairy, under 1 line in lenoth. 

 Bracts and bracteoles deciduous. 



Flowers small, calyx rather thickly pubescent, the 2 upper 

 lobes united a little higher up than the others, 1.5-2 lines long. 

 Yexillum less than twice as long as the calyx, and a little longer 

 than the alae or carina, about 2 lines in breadth. 



Stamens free, ovary densely covered with white wooly hairs, 

 stipes |-1 line in length. " 



Tbe plant belongs to the Series II. (Racemosae) of Bentham. 



