Flora of Australia. 97 



\ tree fifty feet high, bark smooth and greyish, flowering for 

 several months, so that blossoms and pods are present at the 

 same time (December). 



The accompanying figures were prepared from the pencil 

 sketches of R. Graff, with a few small corrections. A plate 

 appears to have been actually lithographed, since a proof exists 

 at the Herbarium, but not to have been issued. 



In Engler's Pflanzeii Familien, iii., '^), 193. the species is 

 given as native to New Zealand, which is an error for Queens- 

 land. 



Trichinium (Ptilotus) incanum, R. Br, var. intermedium, 

 1). var. ( Amarantaceae). 



R. Helms (Elder exploring expedition), Warrina, S. Aust., 

 May. 1891. 



The plant has the cylindrical inflorescence and transparent 

 woolly bracts of T. incanum, but the indumentum of the stem 

 and the larger flowers of T. ohovatum, Gaud. The T. incanum 

 of Moquin is referred by Bentham to T. ohnvcdum, and it is 

 possible that the two species may ultimately prove to be 

 varieties of one species. 



Var. PARViFLORUM, u. var. (Ptilotus Helmsii, F. v. M. and 

 Tate, ined.). 



Eider exploring expedition, Camp 4, S. Australia, R. Helms, 

 July, 1891. The flowers have constantly 3 stamens, the heads 

 are fewer flos^-ered, the bracts are darker in colour, the hairs 

 of the woolly indumentum are longer and looser, and the young 

 shoots less denselv white and woollv. 



