14 Eivart, Wldte and Rees : 



Guaphalinae (Angianthus-Calocephalus-Helichrysum). Its simple 

 homogamous heads, bracts in several rows, with yellowish tips, 

 truncate styles, etc., place it in the Guaphalinae, near to 

 Helichrysum, between it and Helipterum, and indicate that the 

 simple head of the latter is derived from the compound head of 

 Angianthinae by the reduction of the partial heads to one flower 

 and the suppression of the subtending scales. Indeed, a few 

 scales are sometimes present betAveen the central florets of 

 Helichrvsum. 



GiLiiUTHiA OsBORNi, Ewart and White, n. sp. (after Professors 

 Osborne and Gilruth). 



A herb of 1 to 2 inches, branching at the base, stems woody, 

 and, as well as the leaves, covered with soft white hairs. 

 Leaves lanceolar, about -J cm. long, woolly on both sides, nar- 

 rowed at the base, but no distinct petiole, obtuse or somewhat 

 pointed, flat or slightly re volute. Heads on short pedicels 

 terminal, solitaiy or more usually in close clusters of three or 

 more at the ends of the branches. Innermost bracts twice the 

 length of tlie outermost series, which exceed a millimetre in 

 length, and have only few hairs. The inner bracts with a 

 double tuft of woolly hairs on the bract, below the tip. 



Mt. Malcolm (north of Kalgoorlie), West Australia. F. Kodway, 

 123, Nov., 1906. 



This puzzling little plant was placed by Hemsley, at Kew, as 

 near to Calocepliahis Sonderi, probably on account of the 

 pappus, l)ut the simple heads necessitate its inclusion in the 

 Guapholinac. and the other peculiarities raise it to the rank of 

 a new <renus. 



GllKViLLEA Uehhvana, Kwart and White, ii. sp. (Protenceae. 

 Gi'oup Cycle )ptei'a). After Professor Berry. 



Sluul) u}) to 20 ft. high. Stems woody and slightly glaucous, 

 pubescent when young. Lc.ivcs allei-natc, petiolate, exstij^ulate, 

 6 to 9 inches long. com})ound, with 4 to 7 alternately arranged 

 segments, the h»west segments (> to 7 inches, the upper shorter, 



