Flora of Austndiit. 543 



HKLiniKVSL'M Tkim'Eki, F. v. M. Liikf All)ueutya, 1903. 



St. Eloy D'Alton. From Herbarium. C Walter, under Fado- 

 Irpis Lesson i, Benth. 



HiBHERTiA ?^TRiCTA, H. Br., var. Reaheki, A.J.E. 



The variety comes nearest to the var. hirtitlora of H. stricta, 

 liut differs in the smaller flowers, more slender and glabrous 

 stems, the leaves glabrous on their upper sui'faces, and in 

 general the pubescence less developed. The Howers, instead of 

 the usual 8-12 stamens, have 7-10. 



Casterton, 1908. F. M. Reader. 



Olbaria Toppi, n. sp.. Rwart and White (after C. A. Topp). 



Shrub freely branching, apparently 1-3 feet high. Leaves \ 

 to li an inch long, sessile, linear, flat, somewhat thick, with a 

 slight tendency towards recurving, midrib prominent at the 

 back, slightly rough and glabrous. It differs from Olearia 

 nmricata, to which it has a superficial resemblance in the con- 

 spicuous revolute leaves of the latter. Leaves alternate. 

 Heads terminal, grouped into irregular leafy corymbs, 

 neai-ly sessile, and surrounded by an involucre of 3 to 5 

 leaf-like bracts, somewhat scarious at the edges, the bracts of 

 the inner circle are the longest, and those of the outermost 

 circle the shortest. Six to 7 ray florets, disc florets more 

 numerous, 5 merous and slightly exceeding the involucre. 

 Anther tube slightly exserted. Pappus bristles fairly nume- 

 rous, not quite all the same length. Achenes hairy, greatly 

 compressed, long and narrow. 



F. M. Reader, sandy tracts. Shire of Borung, 1904 : Dimboola, 

 Mallee Scrub, 1892. 



New to Victoria. The specimens were marked provisionally 

 by Mr. Reader as Aster decurrens, var. augustifolia. It differs 

 from this species, however, in the shorter obtusely linear leaves, 

 the heads usually solitary at the ends of separate branches, 

 usually 1-3 inches long, rather larger and with more numerous 

 imbricated bracts. Achenes silky, hairy, pappus as in Olearia 

 decurrens. 



