78 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



1886, by Messrs. A. J. and W. White, is a size larger than that of 

 the Little Lorikeet (T. pusilla), round, and in colour soft white, 

 slightly discoloured with the brownish wood dust of the nesting 

 hollow. Dimensions, 2*05 x i'8 cm. 



I may perhaps mention that the Messrs. White are connections 

 of the late Mr. White, so often mentioned in Gould's work. 



At the time of my visit to the Wimmera district, Victoria, 

 October, 1882, I found the Porphyrio-crowned Lorikeet breeding, 

 but was unable myself to procure the eggs. 



Once, when on the mail boat steaming down Spencer's Gulf, I 

 was agreeably astonished • to see one of those little Lorikeets 

 flutter on board and lodge on the hurricane-deck, where I easily 

 secured it. On holding it up to the admiring passengers the 

 little bird protested by digging its hard bill into my thumb. 

 Throwing the bird into the air, it uttered its characteristic harsh 

 screech, gave its body a quiver, and headed straight for the land. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN PLANTS, WITH 

 OCCASIONAL OTHER ANNOTATIONS ; 



By Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M. & Ph.D.,LL.D., F.R.S. 



(Continued.) 

 Styphelia Kingiana. 



^^ranchlets tomentellous ; leaves small, ovate-lanceolar, pun- 

 gent-acuminate or some verging into a more roundish form, 

 somewhat concave but flat at the margin, dull pale-green on both 

 sides, impressedly streaked by 8 thin, almost parallel venules, 

 bluntly keeled; flowers axillary, solitary, rather large; bracts 

 except the lowest as well as the bracteoles and sepals whitish, 

 acuminate ; bracteoles broad, nearly half as long as the calyx j 

 corolla slightly exceeding the sepals, to the middle five-cleft, out- 

 side pale-yellowish, inside from above the base white-lanuginous; 

 free part of the filaments very short, emerging close to the base of 

 the corolla-lobes ; anthers pendent, not much shorter than the 

 corolla-tube, linear-cylindric, reddish, divergently short-bilobed ; 

 style elongated, subulate, to above the middle pubescent; stigma 

 very minute ; disk greenish, cleft to the middle into five semi- 

 orbicular lobes with a darker zone of colouration ; ovulary invested, 

 and surpassed by a dense tuft of white straight hairlets. 



Near Lake Deborah ; Cronin. 



A plant of chaste beauty. Leaves almost sessile, mostly %-ys 

 inch long. Flowers nealy ^ inch long. Corolla-lobes semi- 

 lanceolate-linear. Cells of the ovulary narrow. Fruit unknown. 

 In the only branchlet received the flowers may not be fully 

 developed and the corolla may finally therefore lengthen more 



