Flora of Australia. 5 



GoMPHRKNA INVOLUCHATA, Ewait, 11. sp. ( Amarantacene). 

 A stiff, erect, apparently annual herb, the rigid cylindrical stems 

 softly hairy when young, more or less glabrous when older. Leaves 

 opposite, flat linear lanceolate, acute, densely hairy beneath, more 

 sparsely so on the upper surface, over an inch in length. Flowers 

 in hemispherical heads about tlnee-quarters incli diameter at the 

 ■ends of the branches, surrounded In- an involucre of 10 to 2U linear 

 lanceolate leaves. Bracts and bracteoles, thin transparent scarious, 

 keeled, ovate pointecl, 7 mm. long. Perianth segments about 6 mm. 

 long, linear obtuse, very woolly on the back lieloAv the middle. 

 Anther tube longer than the ovary, the free portion flattened, the 

 sterile lobes between the anthers slightly longer than them, and 

 ^ach divided into two short blunt lobes. Style tiliforiu. Stigma 

 bitid. One broAvn flattened sliglitly curved seed. Near Pine Creek, 

 Northern Territory, J. H. Niemann, April, 1904. The specimen 

 <'onsists of the heads only with a small portion of the stem, but the 

 plant is readily distinguished from G. canescens, R. Br., by the in- 

 volucre, the broader bracts and bracteoles, the blunt perianth seg- 

 ments very woolly on the back, and the flat bilobed free segments 

 of the staminal tube. 



HovEA LONGIFOLIA, R. Br., var. ASPERA. (Leguminosae). 



Victoria : Bogong Ranges and Mitta Mitta River, Dr. F. Mueller, 

 January, 1854; Snowy River, Dr. F. Mueller, February, 1854; 

 Munyang Mountains, Dr. F. Mueller. 1874; Grampians. Et. Eloy 

 Dalton, Warburton, G. Weindorfer. 1904; Yarra Junction. P. R. 

 H. St. John, 1910. New South \Yales : Bunberry, near Molong. J. 

 H. Maiden, August, 1897. 



The roughness of the leases is so pronounced as to justify the 

 recognition of an additional variety of this species. Some speci- 

 anens of it have been placed under the variety " rosmarinifolia." 

 The variety " aspera," was first recognised by F. M. Reader in a 

 manuscript name, apparently unpublished. 



Indigofera australis, Willd. " Austral Iiidi<jo." (Leguminosae). 

 Healesville, Victoria, (". Frencli. .Junr.. October, 1912. 

 A white flowered form. 



IsOETES Dkummondii, A. Braun. (Rhizospermae). 

 Pine Mountain, between Tintaldra and Dalwa. I'jjper Murray. 

 Victoria, A. J. Ewart, November. 1912. 



In pools on summit, in granite basins f>n bare rock. 



