Flora of Australia. 93 



Cryptandra apetala, Ewart and White, n. sp. (Rhamnaceae). 



A shrubby plant, more than 10 inches high, with divaricate 

 branches which do not bear spines. The ends of the young 

 branches are slightly pubescent. Leaves linear-lanceolar, situ- 

 ated in tufts on short lateral branches, shortly petiolate, some- 

 what obtuse and covered with short felt-like greyish hairs, 

 especially on the under surface ; the margins are so revolute 

 as to make the leaves almost terete. 



Flowers situated in clusters on short lateral shoots, to- 

 wards the upper branches of the shrub ; each flower is sessile, 

 and there are from 2 — 8 flowers in each cluster. The brown 

 bracts are much shorter than the calyx lobes, and are obtuse ; 

 the whole calyx is about 1 line long, and both limb and tube 

 are densely covered with an appressed pubescence of small, 

 greyish hairs. The calyx is tubular, urceolate to slightly cam- 

 panulate in shape, the lobes about the same length as the 

 tube, sepals 5, brownish pink in colour, and slightly thickened 

 at the tips The petals are absent, and there are 5 stamens 

 with comparatively large anthers, the filaments being inserted 

 on the calyx at their base, between each pair of sepals. 



Disc pubescent, forming a prominent rim round the small 

 central depression in which the style arises. Stigma shortly 

 trilobed. Ovary attached to the calyx tube. 



CoAvcowing, W. Australia; M. Koch, Sept., 1901. No. 1596. 



The plant resembles C. polyclada, Diels, externally, but differs 

 entirely in the bracts and flower. Its nearest aflftnity is C. 

 tomeiitosa, Lindl., a specimen of C. tomentosa from L, 

 Albacutya, having the tomentose character of the calyx equally 

 well developed ; but it is easily distinguished from that species 

 by the absence of petals, the calyx tomentose all over the out- 

 side, and the sessile more sparsely scattered flowers. In the absence 

 of petals and in the disc it shows an approach to Colletia 

 (Discariaj, from which, however, it differs v.'idely in habit. 



Droskra Andersoniana, W. Y. Fitzgerald, ined. Ewart and 

 White, n. sp. (Droseraceae). 



Rootstock apparently not bulbous. Stems more or less erect, 

 6 to 9 inches long, not so slender as in Drusera peiiicillaris. 



