76 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



Mr. Fitzgerald was an honorary member of the Field Naturalists 

 Club of Victoria. He was universally esteemed by his fellow- 

 workers, not only on account of the high accuracy and the artistic 

 beauty of his work, but because of his genial nature and the total 

 absence of all selfishness in his relations with others. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN PLANTS, WITH 

 OCCASIONAL OTHER ANNOTATIONS ; 



By Baron von Mueller, K.CM G., M. & Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S. 



(Continued.) 



Eremophila Phillipsii, 



Viscid ; leaves small, lanceolate-linear, entire flat, bluntish, as 

 well as the branchlets glabrous ; pedicels often two or three 

 together, much shorter than the flowers ; calyx very small and 

 remaining unenlarged, of firm texture, as well as the pedicels 

 densely beset with minute glandule-bearing hairlets, its outer seg- 

 ments elliptic-lanceolar, the inner narrower ; corolla several times 

 longer than the calyx, dull-purplish, outside bearing scattered very 

 short hairlets, its tube about thrice longer than the lobes, only at 

 the base narrow-cylindric, inside downward partially tender- 

 lanuginous ; lateral lobes of the lower set slightly longer than the 

 middle one, the two lobes of the upper set shorter but almost as 

 high, all rounded-blunt ; stamens enclosed ; style scantily beset 

 with hairlets ; fruit quite small, hardly as long as the calyx, glab- 

 rous, conic ellipsoid, somewhat compressed, with hardly any sub- 

 divisions, its pericarp comparatively thin ; seeds solitary in each 

 cell. 



Eastern sources of Swan-River ; Edwin Merrell. 



Well developed leaves about i inch long. Length of calyx j4> 

 to scarcely }( inch, of corolla about ^ inch. Fruit rather less 

 than half as broad as long. 



This species approaches E. Clarkei, which, however, has larger 

 denticulated more pointed leaves, much longer often solitary 

 pedicels, larger flowers, acute proportionately longer calyx-seg- 

 ments and a four-celled more turgid fruit outside beset with hair- 

 lets. 



E. myoporoides is less sticky, has longer leaves, all the pedicels 

 solitary and glabrous, the calyx-segments more pointed, the corolla 

 shorter and the fruit seems also different. The geminate or ternate 

 pedicels call to mind E. Paisleyi, which, however, is already by 

 the shape and consistence of the calyx-segments separated, irre- 

 spective of some other marks of distinction. 



This rare plant is dedicated to the honourable Capt. George 

 Phillips, of Perth, West Australia, in recognition of generously 

 advancing the writer's researches. 



