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goniantlia, Turcz. In the Kew Index, :3rd Suppl. (1908), the 

 name is queried similarly. The plant is fully described in the 

 Victorian Naturalist, and its nearest affinities are to E. in- 

 crassatjr and E. jxirhyjjhyUa. In the 2nd supplement of the 

 Kew Index (1904) the name is given as valid, with the proper 

 reference. 



Freycinetia Gaudichaudii, Bennett. (Pandanaceae). 



This is ofiven bv Warburs: in Enp^ler's Pflanzenreich as from 

 Java only, and Bailey's record of the plant from Queensland 

 dismissed as probably incorrect. Queensland specimens of this 

 plant exist, however, in the National Herbarium which were 

 examined both by Bentham and by Mueller, and referred to this 

 species. Warburg also omits F. insignis from the Queensland 

 Flora without any reason being given. It is given from Queens- 

 land on Baron von Mueller's authority and is included in the 

 Census and in Bailev's Flora. 



GiLRUTHiA, Ewart, n. gen. (Compositae, Inulae-Gnaphalinae). 



Simple heads of homogamous tubular florets without any 

 subtending scales on the convex receptacle. Involucre of 5 or 6 

 rows of appressed scarious bracts, with a green midrib and 

 short yellowish appressed tips, more conspicuous in the inner 

 bracts. Pappus of a basal membranous ring with ascending 

 teeth tapering into a small number of plumose filaments, of the 

 length of the corolla. Corolla 5-toothed, golden-yellow anthers 

 slightly tailed. Styles 2, almost terete, not thickened below the 

 middle, truncate at the top. 



Achene glabrous or faintly papillose, angular, not beaked, 

 slightly flattened. 



The heads are either single or in close, nearly sessile clusters 

 of 3 or more, but quite distinct, and with a well-developed in- 

 volucre. The pappus resembles that of some species of Caloce- 

 phalus, while the style approaches that of some species of 

 Angianthus or Helipterum. The genus forms an interesting 

 connecting link between the Inulae-Angianthinae and the Inulae- 



