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Definitions of Four Ne^w Species of 

 Australian Plants. 



By Professor Ralph Tate, F.L.S., F.G.S., vfcc. 



[Read October i, 1889.] 



Gryptandra scabrida.* 



Spy^ndium scabridum, R.T. coll. 



An erect twiggy shrub of about three to four feet high. Leaves 

 linear-oblong, about quarter inch long, somewhat clustered, deeply 

 channelled above, the margins recurved, bluntly notched at the 

 end ; upper side scabrous and sparsely hispid ; under side with 

 long subappressed hairs. Flower-heads very dense, in compact 

 terminal cymes, surrounded by a few floral bracts much larger 

 and broader than the leaves, densely beset with white woolly 

 hairs. 



By the Eleanor River, and at Karatta, on the Stun'sailboom 

 River, Kangaroo Island {R.T., January 24, 1883), 



This species is closely related to C. liahnaturina and C. hijida, 

 from which it difters by the shape of the leaves and the nature 

 of the investiture. The differential characters of the three seem 

 to be as follows : — 



Leaves cuneate-oblong, lobes short blunt, densely stellately- 

 hairy, underside also with long simple hairs. liahnaturina 

 Leaves narrow-cuneate, lobes longer subacute, upper side 

 glabrous or nearly so, underside densely beset with long 

 hairs. bifida 



Leaves linear-oblong, somewhat clustered, deeply channelled 

 above, bluntly notched at the end ; upper side scabrous and 

 sparsely hispid, underside with long subappressed hairs. 



scabrida 



Caladenia toxochila.f 



A slender slightly-hairy species of about nine inches high ; 

 one-, rarely two-,flowered. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, about four 

 inches long. 



* Upper surface of leaves some^uhai rough. 

 t Boiv-shapcd lip or labellum. 



