[Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 21 (N.S.), Pt. II., 1908.] 



Art. XXV. — Contributions to tlte Flora of Australia, 



No. 10} 



By ALFRED J. EWART, D.Sc, Ph.D., F.L.S., 



Government Botanist and Professor of Botany in tlie University of 



Melbourne ; 



JEAN WHITE, M.Sc, 



Government Research Scholar. 



(With Plates YI.-IX.). 

 [Read 10th December, 1908]. 



Baeckea Eatoniana, n. sp., Ewart and White. 



A small, much branched, shrubby plant about 5 or 6 inches 

 high, the branches woody and stiff, and covered by a whitish 

 membrane, peeling off on the older branches, leaving a yel- 

 lo;wish scaly bark. Leaves about one-sixteenth inch long, 

 glandular, green, almost cylindrical and sessile, blunt at the 

 top, decussate. Flowers solitary, with 2 bracteoles. Calyx, 5 

 sepals, the tube adnate to the ovary, the sepals free, and with 

 a white and membranous border. Petah "), free, orbicular, 

 shortly stalked, white, sinuous at the edge, one-twelfth inch long. 

 Stamens 20, rarely 3 to 4 fewer, forming a single ring attached 

 to a projecting ridge connected with the bases of the petals, 

 filaments dilated more or less at the lower end, without any 

 cilia-like appendages at the points of attachment, free from each 

 other, filiform, as a rule 4 stamens situated opposite each petal. 



1 No. 9 in Journal Roy. Soc. of N.S. Walss, vol. xlii., 1908. 



