Fiord of A iisfralia. 321 



and the name not particularly appropriate. Size, scent, colour 

 and habit are among the less satisfactory features on which to 

 base species. 



Halgania Lkhmanniana, Solid. In Plantae Preissianae, vol. ii., 

 p. 238, (1846-7). (Solanaceue). 



Bentham (Flora Australiensis, vol. iv., p. 401), although he 

 had not seen a specimen, considered from the published descrip- 

 tion that the plant was a form of H. Freissiana. The Kew 

 Index similarly suppresses the species. It is, however, valid, 

 differing from H. Freissiana in the indumentum, shape of the 

 leaves, smaller flowers and glabrous calyx, with less sharply 

 pointed segments. In H. Preissiaua the leaves and stems are 

 sprinkled with large, simple, whitish, suppressed hairs, which 

 are replaced in H. Lehmanniana by a scurfy tomentum, mainly 

 on the stems, of very short, erect, branching or stellate hairs. 



Halgania tomentosa, R. Helms M.S., Ewart and White, n. sp. 



West of Red Kangaroo Hill, R. Kelms, November, 1891. 



A somewhat woody herb 5-10 inches high in the specimens 

 examined. Stems Aviry, densely beset with rather short, white, 

 felt-like hairs. Leaves rather thick in texture, 2-5 lines long, 

 shortly petiolate. entire margins, alternate ; like the stem, 

 covered thickly with white, felt-like hairs, midrib hardly visible 

 on the under surface, vertical, and with a palisade layer on both 

 surfaces. Pedicels 3-6 lines long, and covered with brown, 

 felt-like hairs. Flowers solitary, terminal, each with a small 

 brown bract, each flower about 4 lines in diameter. Calyx lobes 

 5, except at the extreme base, 1.5-2 lines long, the outside 

 covered with short brown hairs, narrow, and only very slightly 

 obtuse. Petals 5, broad, acute, free except at the extreme base, 

 exceeding the calyx lobes, probably blue, but fading to brown in 

 dried specimens. Anthers slightly pubescent, the lobes not very 

 conspicuous, about 3 lines long. 



Ovary 2-celled, style long and slender. Fruit a superior, dry, 

 2-chambered capsule about 2.5 lines long, with the style per- 

 sistent. 



