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leaves ; many-flowered cymes ; larger flowers ; bracts not much 

 shorter than the calyx, but almost like the corolla ; the seg- 

 ments of the calyx narrower on account of their length ; anthers 

 more slender ; it differs from L. JSehrii by the sharper leaves 

 not so remarkably roughened above, and the flowers of the 

 cymes much more numerous ; the bracts under the calyx much 

 larger and not so stiff, the outside of the calyx rather more 

 purple than ashy, the segments of the calyx narrower and 

 downy inside. It flowers principally in September and 

 October. 



It may perhaps be a hybrid plant sprung from L. discolor 

 and L. jBaiieri, with which plants it occurs in a single locality, 

 as the distinguished discoverer in communicating to me now 

 confirms. From the large order of Sterculiace* of the whole 

 world hitherto no hybrid plants are noted, except from the 

 genus Mahernia. (See A^. O. Focke, Die Elanzen-Mischlinge, 

 p. 78 ; 1881.) 



Gommersonia Kempeana, F.v. M., op. cit,, p. 113 (Ord. Sterculiaces.) 



Velvety in spots ; leaves rhomboid or lanceolate-ovate, 

 irregularly toothed, slightly crenulated, and underneath, 

 towards the base, very prominently veined ; cymes very short 

 or with thickly-set flowers hardly pedunculated ; small calyx 

 obtuse before opening and almost angular, and split almost to 

 the middle into deltoid teeth ; the cup of tlie rafJier shorter 

 'petals with an ohlong -spathulate claw tliree times longer than the 

 incurved appendages; the staminodia semilanceolate and the 

 petals smooth, the latter exceeding the former by a third part ; 

 anthers in two sets ; style smooth ; seed vessel woolly. 



In the neighbourhood of the Finke River ; Kempe. 



Leaves rather flat, and mostly three-quarters to one and a 

 quarter inches long, shortly or greatly petiolate, quite sharp, 

 here and there some of them furnished with rather larger 

 teeth, the upper surface a light green, very much lighter 

 beneath. Calyx about two lines long, very slightly downy 

 inside. The cells of the anthers globose to oval, red, and 

 slightly at an angle. Styles cohering imperfectly into one. 

 Fruit as yet unknown. 



It is S2)ecially separable from C loxophylla by the much 

 narrower leaves, scarcely imequal-sided, petals broader up- 

 wards and almost equal to the length of the cup, and perhaps 

 not so yellow. From C. cuneata again it is separable by the 

 less crumpled and narrower leaves, but sharper, and with 

 shorter crenulations, as well as the rather sharper lobes of the 

 calyx ; probably distinguishable from both known ones by the 

 fruit. 



