Flora of A astnilta. Ill 



PiiEHALHM ArRK'is (Diels). (Rutaceiic). 



This species was described by Diels as Erio-iteiiioii aprirus, in 

 Engler Bot. Jahrb.. band xxxv., p. 321 (1905). Tliis pb\nt also has 

 <;labrous or sliirlitly Lilandular filaments, and must therefore be placed 

 under Plifha/iuni as in the next species. 



Phebalium dbserti (Pritzel). (Rutaceae). 



This plant was described as a new species under Erio^femon 

 (Phebalium) iiitermedius, Ewart, in Proc. of the Roy. Soc. of Viet.. 

 vol. xix., p. 40 (1906), but was subsequently found to be the same as 

 the new species described by Pritzel as Erinstemon desertl, in Engler's 

 Bot. Jahrl)., l)and. xxxv., p. 321 (1905). 



Since, however, the plant has glabrous filaments, and since it 

 appears best, if only for practical convenience, to adopt the generic 

 subdivision of Eriostemon as given in Bentham's Fl. Aust., vol. 1, and 

 also in Engler's Pflanzenfamilien, the plant must be placed in 

 Phehalium, as above. 



Prasophtllum ciliatum, Ewart and Rees, new species. (Orchidaceae). 

 Sect. 3. Genoplesium. Labellum ciliate or fringed. 



Green Valley, County of Talbot, Victoria, F. M. Reader, June 19th, 

 1910. 



Stem about 5 inches long, bract small and less than half an inch 

 below the inflorescence. Spike about h inch long. Lateral sepals 

 united at e.xtreme base, slightly gibbous, uai row lanceolate, acuminate, 

 margins curved inwards, 2^-3 lines long, ovate accumate hooded. 

 Lateral petals slightly shorter than dorsal, narrow, lanceolate, ending 

 in long fine point with dark stripe dnwn the centre. Labellum 

 attached by a claw to the base of the column, about H lines long, long 

 and narrow, in a blunt tip, channelled down centre, margin fringed 

 with short cilia, inner plate has the margins free and curving slightly, 

 extending to the end of labellum. Column about \\ lines long, about 

 as long l^elow anther as anther. Lateral appendages about the same 

 length as anther, adnate to base of column, divided into 2 short lobes, 

 inner shortly acuminate outer somewhat falcate, with outer margin 

 fringed with short cilia. Stigma comparatively large, mstellum small 

 and extending but little above the base of the anther. Ovary about 

 \h lines long, o^'al and swollen looking in the fully-opened flowers. 



Appears nearest to /'. Wvollsii, from which it differs in having 

 larger flowers, no cilia on lateral i>etals, and in the form of the 

 labellum. 



