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in pairs, or tlae common peduncle bearing two rays, each with 

 two pedicellate flowers. No bracts. Calyx border deeply cup- 

 shaped, truncate ; bracteole gibbous adnate to the calyx tube. 

 Petals four free, narrow, woolly externally, glabrous and dark 

 red interiorly, one to one and a half inch long, dilated apex of 

 bud tetragonal. Anthers adnate, oblong linear. Style filiform, 

 nearly as long as the corolla. Truit not seen. 



Parasitic on Grevillea nematophylla, which is restricted to the 

 ^' gypsum rises" of the William Tableland, Lake Eyre basin, 

 west. Malcolm Murray. Plowering in April. 



This new species has a general agreement with L. linophyllus, 

 aud especially ys'ith-foi^ma c. (^ew^Aam), having wooll3''-tomentose 

 flowers, but it differs by its cup-shaped calyx border, stouter 

 habit, tomentose investiture, and by the gibbous base of the 

 calyx- tube. It resembles L. Quandang by its investiture, but 

 the leaves, calyx, and pedicellate flowers are different. 

 Sttphelia (LErcopoGON) cosTATA, F. V. M., in Southern 



Science Eecord, April, 1885. S. striata, Tate, Trans. Roy. 



Soc, South Australia, vol. YI., p. 166 {non., Sprengel), 



Kangaroo Island. 

 Styphelia (LEUCOPoaoN) striata, Sprengel. Eucla {teste, 



F. V. M.) 

 Xais'thoerh^a Tateak^a, F. v. M. X. quadrangulata, Tate, 



Trans. Roy. Soc. South Aust., vol. YL, p. 168 {non., 



F. V. M.). Kangaroo Island. Probably Mount Crawford 



Swamps, near "Williamstown ; and the Black Swamp,, 



District of Encounter Bay. 



