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Diagnoses of New Species of South 

 Australian Plants. 



Translated from Baron von Mueller's Fragmenta Phytographiae 

 AustralicT, vol. XI., Xo. xciii. 



By STiRLiNCi Smeatox, B.A., Assoc. Eoy. 8oc. 

 [Read October 4th, 1881.] 



Lasiopetalum Tepperi, F. v. M., op. cit., p. 109 (Ord. Sterculiace«.) 



Tall ; the leaves shortly petiolate, oblong-lanceolate and 

 slightly curved, perfectly smooth on the upper surface, and on 

 the lower velvety with a very fine light -coloured wool ; densely- 

 fiowered cymes ; floral bracts narrow-lanceolate, almost i^etaloid 

 and equal in length to the calyx ; the limb of the calyx deeply 

 five-partite and downy within ; the anthers linear-oblong, 

 narrowing upwards ; style smooth ; ovary velvety. 



Yorke Valley, Hundred of Maitland ; Tepper. 



A shrub four to five feet high. The leaves, on a single 

 branch examined by me, about one and half inches long and 

 about four lines broad, with the edge slightly recurved. The 

 largest peduncles often lialf to two-thirds of an inch long. 

 The pedicels generally a line long, here and there lengthened 

 to three lines. The lower bracts, oblong-linear and very short ; 

 three floral bracts, almost three lines long, inside and outside 

 covered with velvety spots. The calyx less hairy within than 

 outside and almost red ; the limb semi-lanceolate, rather sharj), 

 and about three lines long. Petals rounded, brown or fox- 

 coloured, incurved, ending with a short point, and about a line 

 long. Anthers varying from blackish-piu-ple to brown, shining, 

 a little recurved, two pores at the blunted lighter-coloured 

 point ; a little more than a line long, and adnate ; the fila- 

 ments extended below tlie anthers to about one line in length. 

 8tyle bristly, about half a line long. Fruit not known. 



This plant is easily distinguished from all its allies by the 

 large bracts under the calyx, except from Lasiopetalum discolor, 

 from which it is removed by the much narrower leaves with 

 their shorter petioles ; the flowers more decidedly pedicellated 

 and never ^ith dense heads ; the sharper bracts not over- 

 topping the calyx so much ; and the segments of the calyx 

 not smooth within ; it differs from L. JBaurri by the broader 



