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half-exserted ; staminal column very short, anthers whitish, not numerous 

 (pistillate flowers and their fruits unknown). 



At Lake Lefroy ; R. Helms. This shares with P. microphyllus in the 

 characteristics of leaves and flowers, but with P. spicatus in the simple 

 manner of growth. The leaves are quite entire, often folded from the 

 sides inward, and sometimes archedcur ved. 



Chloanthes coerulea F. v. M. and Täte. 



Leaves much crowded, and often ternately or quarternately verticillate, 

 sessile, broad-linear, revolute at the margin, above scantily lanuginous 

 and somewhat rugulose, beneath as well as the branches white-tomentose ; 

 flowers blue in a contracted leafy panicle; lower bracts foliaceous ; calyx 

 small, deeply cleft into narrow semilanceolate lobes, stellately-tomentellons 

 outside; corolla wider than long, deeply-lobed, its tube broad, outside 

 intricately-pubescent, inside glabrous, the lowest lobe the largest ; stamens 

 eonsiderably shorter than the corolla, their filanients rather thick, glabrous 

 to the base; anthers unprovided with appendages ; fruit quite small, 

 globular, black, pitted or irregularly reticulate-ridged, with a very narrow 

 basal cavity seceding into its four petitions, each one seeded. 



Near Gnarbine, Helms; also near Parker's Range, Edwin Merrall. 



Well-developed leaves about one inch long, seldom more than one- 

 eighth inch broad, mostly erect. Lower bracts to one-half inch long. 

 Inflorescence two to five inches long, terminating brauchlets. Calyx one- 

 eighth to one-sixth inch long. Corolla deep-blue et least towards the 

 base, measuring about half an inch diametrically ; filaments yellowish, 

 fixed near the base of the corolla; attenuated towards their lower end. 

 Anthers dorsifixed, yeliow, when expanded roundish style, one-quarter 

 inch long, capilluary, glabrous. Stigma very minute, acutely bilobed. 

 Fruit measuring only one-eighth inch. Nearest to C. halganiaceae. 



Banksia Elderiana F. v. M. and Täte. 



Branchlets grey-tomentellous ; leaves on short petioles, rigid, much 

 elongated, but rather narrow, flat, serrate-pinnatifid, on their upper side 

 the vemilation concealed, on their lower side faintly reticulated, the 

 foveoles there slightly whilish-tomentellous ; lobes of Ihe leaves semicuneate- 

 deltoid ; inflorescence ovate-ellipsoid; petals very narrow, outside to about 

 the middle almost sericeous, their upper portion glabrous or glabrescent, 

 canaliculate-linear, blunt; anthers quite narrow; style only towards its 

 base beset with short hairlets ; fruitlets densely pubescent at their lower 

 portion, glabrescent towards the somewhat acutangular summit; seeds 

 cuneate-deltoid, terminated by a membranous appendage quite as long 

 and eonsiderably broader. 



Victoria Desert ; R. Helms. 



Well-developed leaves seven to ten inches long, hardly ever exceeding 

 half-inch in breadth, almost of equal colour on both sides; downward 

 gradually narrowed, also upwards less broad than near the middle. 

 Flowers only seen as remnants among the fruitlets. thus the colour 

 uiiascertainable : the styles all broken, so that no stigma remained. 

 United niass of fruitlets four to five inches long; individual fruitlets two- 

 thirds to nearly one inch broad. Seeds-testule and its appendiciilar 

 protraction black. Bears some comparison to B. laevigata, though the 

 leaves are much longer and not truncate, besides having far longer lobes, 

 while also the indument of the petals is very different. From B. media 

 it is similarly distinguished, as mentioned above, by the form of the 

 leaves, which moreover are not much paler uuderneath, but tbe characte- 

 ristics of the petals is almost the same. What Sir Joseph Banks for 

 material support has been to the science of Britain at bis time, that Sir 

 Thomas Eider has been in promoting scientific knowledge for South 

 Australia at our period ; hence this plant is chosen to connect his honoured 

 name with that of the British Maecenas in a genus, which was named 

 already by Linnaeus, the son. 



This species seems to form the eastern outposts of the vast mass of 

 westeru Banksias, and may be still niore limited in its ränge than 

 B. ornata. The celebrated and very venerable Edw. J. Eyre (Journ. of 



