128 THR VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



all the lobes conspicuous, in the only available specimen bleached 

 already, but likely yellow ; undivided portion of the corolla much 

 shorter than the lobes. Stigma-cover bearing some few hairlets 

 at its base. Fruit turgid, about y& inch long or little longer. 

 Seeds of equal height, nearly ]A inch long, flat, pyriform-ovate, 

 when placed into tepid water emitting a copious tough whitish 

 mucus. 



This evidently rare plant would have perhaps no claim to bear, 

 as now wished, the celebrated name of the Rev. Dr. George 

 Salmon, were it not for the rarity of the species ; but the writer 

 was eager, yet within the year of the three hundredth anniversary 

 of the Dublin-University to bestow on some new plant of the 

 Australian Flora also in phytographic commemoration the name 

 of the illustrous divine, who as President of the Royal Irish 

 Academy and of Trinity-College was so leadingly connected with 

 this memorable jubilee. 



This Velleya connects that genus still more closely with 

 Goodenia ; indeed it would be a genuine congener of the latter, 

 if the segments of the calyx coalesced into an even only short 

 tube. 



At a mere passing glance V. Salmoniana might be taken for 

 Goodenia fiVformis, so great is the habitual resemblance, and this 

 confusion would be all the more excusable, as no other species 

 exist in the genus Velleya at all of such an aspect. Nevertheless 

 the distinctions are in various respects well marked, G. jiliformis 

 having the leaves broader, the calyces adnate, the corolla outside 

 less pubescent, but unilaterally its tube protruding, the style 

 glabrous, the fruit surpassed by the calyx, the seeds smaller 

 blackish outside with much narrower margin. 



Glossostigma trichodes. 



Erect ; leaves in tufts, from linear- to elliptic-spatular ; peduncles 

 very long, thinly capillulary, numerously crowded together ; lobes 

 of the calyx very unequal, much shorter than the tube ; corolla- 

 lobes conspicuously extending beyond the calyx, unfringed ; 

 stamens four, their upper portion emerged ; style conspicuous ; 

 capsule enclosed ; seeds ellipsoid, their testule subtle clathrate- 

 streaked. 



Near Parker's Range ; Edwin Merrell. 



This plant is in habit very different from the three other 

 Glossostigmas, inasmuch as the leaves and peduncles are close 

 together in great numbers, no creeping offshoots being observable 

 on the specimens received. The flower stalks are generally 

 several inches long, and it would appear, that the plant grew sub- 

 mergedly, and elongated its peduncles in the striving of its flowers, 

 to reach the surface. In most other respects this Glossostigma 

 approaches very near to G. drummondi. The extreme thinness 

 of the peduncles renders them so laxe as hardly to be able to bear 

 the weight of the flower. 



