104 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



Ranges and Cheltenham, including Acacia lepro'sa, GreviUea 

 alpina, Glycine clandestina, Duiris longifolia, Indigofera auslralis, 

 Caladenia suaveolens, Goodia lotifoLia, &c. 



After a lengthened conversazione the meeting terminated. 



SOME INDIGENOUS PLANTS NEW TO WESTERN 

 AUSTRALIA. 



By W. V. Fitzgerald, F.S.Sc. London, F.R.H.S. England. 

 (Communicated by Robert Hall.) 

 {Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, lOth June, 1901.) 

 Lobelia gouldii, n. sp. 



A glabrous annual, stems branching and decumbent at the base, 

 with erect or ascending stems, stout, rigid, triangular or winged, 

 2 in. to 4 in. high in the specimen seen. Radical leaves, none 

 on specimen examined ; stem leaves, lower ones deeply and 

 irregularly toothed or lobed, >^ to 3^-in. long, obovate ; upper 

 ones small, linear, entire, 2 to 4 lines long, all dilated at the base, 

 but not stem-clasping. Flowers large, violet, singly terminating 

 long branch-like peduncles. Peduncles usually prominently 

 two-winged. Calyx tube shortly turbinate, lobes linear, almost 

 subulate, 4 lines long, exceeding the tube when in flower, equalling 

 it when in fruit. Corolla ^ to nearly i in. long, the middle lobe 

 broadly obovate or obcordate, with a dark yellow blotch at the 

 base ; the lateral ones a little shorter and oblong, the upper ones 

 very short, incurved, and more or less hairy. Anthers all tipped 

 with a dense short tuft of white bristles. Capsule broadly obovoid, 

 about 4 lines long, 2^^ to 3 lines broad, slightly tapering at the 

 base. Seeds small, ovate, dark brown, convex, prominently 

 tubercular-rugose on the back, and with a prominent rib on the 

 inner face. 



Locality. — Between Mount Malcolm and Mount Leonora; 

 L. H. L. Gould. 



The systematic position of this species would be between 

 L. rhytidnsperma, Bentham, and L. tenuior, R. Brown, differing 

 from the former chiefly in the more or less winged peduncles, and 

 in the fruit; from the latter in the much shorter and broader 

 capsule, and in the seeds, besides minor details. 



Mr. Gould states the flowering period to be late in September, 

 the plant flowering profusely, and forming large patches, in 

 ferruginous, gravelly, or sandy soil. 



Cakile maritima, Scopoli. 



Rottnest Island, Fremantle, Bunbury. 

 Eryngium vesiculosum, Labillardiere. 



Sparingly at Midland Junction. 

 Ophioglossum vulgatum, Linne. 



Near Fremantle (rare). 



