July, 1907.] 



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a great authority (Baron von Mueller) to an existent species {E. 

 eximia). It is, however, difficult to see any grounds for the 

 description of a new species in this case, as can be seen from the 

 following quotations: — 



E. EXIMIA, from Bentham's " flora," 

 p. 258. 



A large tree. 



Leaves falcate lanceolate, mostly 

 4 to 6 inches long, acuminate, with 

 numerous veins, tine and parallel, but 

 scarcely visible owing to the thick, 

 coriaceous texture. 



Flowers several together, closely 

 sessile, in heads which are usually 

 arranged on thick angular or flattened 

 peduncles in terminal corymbs or 

 panicles. 



Calyx tube thick, obconical, some- 

 what angular, much tapering at the 

 base, 3 to 4 lines long. 



Operculum broadly conical or 

 shortly acuminate, always much shorter 

 than the calyx tube, and doubled as 

 in £. maculata. 



Stamens 3 to 4 lines long, anthers 

 ovate oblong, the cells parallel, open- 

 ing longitudinally- 



Ovary short, flat topped. 



Fruit urceolate, ){ X.o I inch long, 

 the rim thin, the capsule deeply sunk. 



E. LEICHHARDTII, Bailey, in Queens- 

 land Agricultural Journal, 1906, 

 vol. xvi., p. 493. 



A tree of small size. 



Leaves falcate lanceolate, 3 to 6 

 inches long, the apex often elongated 

 and filiform, transverse parallel veins 

 very numerous, but not very distinct, 

 owing to the coriaceous texture of the 

 leaf. 



Flowers several together, nearly 

 or quite sessile, in heads which are 

 arranged in thickish (more or less 

 angular) branches of a terminal 

 panicle. 



Calyx tube thick, angular-rugose, 

 much tapering towards the base, in 

 the flower about 4 lines long. 



Operculum broadly conical or 

 shortly acuminate, considerably shorter 

 than the calyx tube, and doubled as 

 Mueller describes for E. eximia. 



Stamens 3 to 4 lines long, anthers 

 oblong, cells parallel, opening long- 

 itudinally. 



Ovary flat topped. 



Fruit urceolate, about 6 lines long, 

 rim rather thin, capsule deeply sunk. 



The bark is the same in both " species," and no doubt can 

 exist but that we are dealing with a somewhat dwarfed form of E. 

 eximia. As the leaves and fruit are also somewhat smaller than 

 in the type form, it may be distinguished as a variety, although its 

 constancy has yet to be determined. A point apparently over- 

 looked by Bailey is that the internal ledge just within the rim is 

 nearly horizontal, instead of sloping inwards and downwards as in 

 E. eximia type, so that the outer chamber of the fruit is saucer- 

 shaped instead of cup-shaped. In this respect, as well as in the 

 size of the fruit, the capsules show an approach to E. maculata, 

 but in the bark, and in other features, the two trees differ con- 

 siderably. 



Hemigenia macphersoni, Luehmann (syn. //. macphersoni, 

 Diels) — Labiatse. 



This plant, described fully by Luehmann in the Victorian 

 Naturalist for June, 1898, has been redescribed in Diels and 

 Pritzel's " Fragmenta Phytographige Australiae Occidentalis," 

 1905, p. 528, as Hemigenia macphersoni, Diels, n. sp. The 

 descriptions are identical, and the figure might have been drawn 



