162 PROCEEDINGS OP THE ROYAL SOCIETY OP QUEENSLAND. 

 Hab. : Yelarbon, Southein Darling Downs, C. T. White. 



In floral structure this species resembles Westringia Cheelii, which 

 is readily distinguished from W. parvifolia by its larger leaves measuring 

 about 3 lines long. The peculiar hexagonal stems with the transverse 

 markings as described above are also very noticeable in our herbarium 

 specimens of W. Cheelii from Narrabri (N.S.W.) and Barakula (Q.). 

 W. parvifolia was generally seen growing in clmups of Spinifex {Triodia 

 sp.) in the desert country near Yelarbon. 



W. tenuicaulis sp. nov. (Text-fig. 3.) 



Friitex erectiis ca. 46 cm. altus, ramulis junioribus pubes- 

 centibus, foliis ternis vel rarius quaternis, linearo-ellipticis, 

 basi sensim petiolatis ; floribus subsessilibus axillaribus sed 

 apice ramorum in racemis conferti? ; calycis pubescentibus 

 campanulalis, lobis triangularibus acutis ; corolla superne 

 pilosa ; pistillo glabro. 



A plant of about 18 in. in height with a number of slender 

 stems proceeding from the same root^tock, the young shoots and 

 inflorescence pubescent with appressed hairs. Leaves in 

 whorls of 3 or occasionally 4, linear-elliptical, narrowed at 

 both extremities, the base gradually tapering into a very short 

 petiole, margins slightly thickened but not revolute, Avith a 

 raised midrib on the under side, 3-7 lines (6-14 mm.) long. 

 Flowers subsessile, solitary in the upper axils or forming short, 

 terminal, leafy spikes. Bracts at the base of the calyx-tube 

 linear and minute. Calyx pubescent, campanulate, nearly 

 3 lines (6 mm.) long ; lobes triangular, acute, more than half 

 the length of the tube. Corolla pubescent in the upper part, 

 the tube about as long a? the calyx. Ovary glabrous, 4-lobed. 

 Style slender, glabrous. 



Hab. : Burrum River, Jatnes Keys ; Lake Cootharaba, both in the 

 Wide Bay district, James Keys. 



W. tenuicavlis is allied to W. ereniicola A. Cunn. and W. Cheelii 

 Maid. & Betche, but it differs in habit from these species and is distin- 

 guished from the former by its non-revolute, glabrous leaves and from 

 the latter by its larger leaves and longer calyx -lobes. Its habit suggests 

 that it abounds in the so-called "wallum" country of the coast. 



W. rosmafiniformis Sm., var. grandifolia F.v.M. Herb. 

 W. grandifolia F.v.M. ex Bentham " Flora Australiensis," v, 

 128. 



Hab. : Granite Motmtains, near Moreton Bay, Queensland. 

 Through the kindness of Professor A. J. Ewart, late Government 

 Botanist of Victoria, we were enabled to see a specimen of W. grandifolia 



