NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN PLANTS, 

 BY BARON YON MUELLEB, K.C.M.G., M. & PH.D., F.B.S. 



CANDOLLEA TEPPERIANA. 



Perennial, divided from the base into few or many short 

 glabrous simple branches ; leaves in a dense tuft at the root, 

 and also one on the summit of the branches, short, narrow 

 linear fine-pointed, two-furrowed beneath, imperfectly ser- 

 rulate-ciliated, the lowest leaves of the terminal tufts descend- 

 ing with a blunt pale free and tumid base ; peduncles thinly 

 filiform, glandular-hairy ; racemes, simple, with few or 

 several flowers ; bracts narrow, pointed, nearly as long as the 

 flowering pedicel, longer than the bracteoles ; calyces about as 

 long as the corolla, exceeding in length the pedicel and as 

 well as the latter subtle glandular-hairy ; the lower lobes 

 narrow semi-lanceolar, disconnected, the two upper lobes con- 

 nate to near the summit and rather blunt ; corolla red, out- 

 side towards the base glandular-hairy ; its lobes almost ovate ; 

 appendage at the fauces narrowly clavate-lobed ; labellum 

 pointed ; fruit almost ellipsoid, at the base attenuated. 



On Mount Taylor in Kangaroo-Island ; Otto Tepper. Boot 

 fascicular-fibrous ; leaves one-third to two-third inch long, 

 very narrow, almost flat, the median line beneath prominent 

 and comparatively broad. Peduncle as long as the inflorescence 

 or longer, generally one only from each upper tuft of leaves. 

 Flowering calyx about quarter inch long. Lobes pf the calyx 

 about half as long as the tube. Corolla from rosy- red drying 

 blueish, its lobes entire. Gynostemium not much extending 

 beyond the corolla. Fruit about one-third inch long, 



Candollea or Stylidium Tepperi approaches in its affinity 

 nearest to C. spinulosa, which is however less proliferous, 

 has usually longer leaves, not all collected into tufts, has the 

 pedicels, particularly the lower ones, much more elongated, the 

 corolla-lobes mostly longer and not of an equally red tinge, 

 and the upper calyx-lobes not highly connate. 



The following are unrecorded localities and characteristics 

 of Candollea : C. crossocephala ; Blackwood-Kiver, Mrs. 

 McHard. C. serrulata ; Trinity Bay, Fitzalan. C. linearis ; 

 Fraser's Island, W. Hill. C. elongata ; Port Gregory, F. V. 

 M. Septum very narrow. Seeds ovate, on very short funicles, 

 few in each cell maturing ; testa brown, somewhat rough ; em- 

 bryo globular, many times shorter than the albumen, next to 

 the hilum. C. juncea ; Gordon-Biver, where it produces a 

 pale lilac corolla with cuneate-ovate fringy-incised lobes, their 

 yellow base being red-dotted, labellum pointed. C. calcarata ; 

 Port Darwin, a very tall variety ; Holtze ; Yorke's Peninsula, 

 Tepper ; Smythe's Creek, Collyer. C. perpusilla ; Geelong, 

 J. Br. Wilson; Port Phillip, C. French. C. debilis ; Man- 

 ning's Biver, Betche. C. diuroides ; Serpentine-Biver, F. V. 

 M. C. despecta ; Murray-and Edwards-Biver, F. V. M. C. 

 alsinoides ; Dampier's Archipelagus, Gazelle-Expedition, 

 Yule-Biver, Hon. J. Forrest. C. pulchella ; Serpentine-Biver, 

 F. V. M. C. canaliculata ; Serpentine Biver, corolla yellow, 

 F. V. M. C. eglandulosa ; Namoi Biver, Betche. 



Extraprint from "The Chemist and Druggist of Australasia." 

 January 1, 1886. 



