194 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



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.) 



Daviesia Croniniana. 



Branchlets much beset with spreading short hairlets ; leaves 

 crowded into distant often somewhat verticillar fascicles, rather 

 long, quite linear, pungently pointed, on the surface prominently 

 three-striate, beneath unisulcate or upwards with two additional 

 furrows, at first villosulous, at last glabrescent ; umbels few- 

 flowered, sessile within fascicles of mainly young leaves ; 

 pedicels glabrous, about as long as the flowers and articulated 

 near them ; calyx scantily beset with hairlets, its tube gradually 

 attenuated at the base, its two upper lobes divergent, almost 

 laterally apiculated, its three lower lobes deltoid ; petals upwards 

 dull-purplish, the lateral petals about half as long as the upper 

 -one, the lower petals still shorter, blunt ; ovulary and style 

 glabrous ; fruit obliquely ovate-deltoid, short-acuminate, hardly 

 turgid, devoid of any conspicuous stipe. 



Towards Lake-Lefroy; Cronin. 



Leaves mostly i-ij4 inches long, on very short petioles, 

 while young much incurved, soon straight and rigid, com- 

 pressed but not of vertical position ; beneath bistriate, at 

 the margin slightly thickened, the furrows greyish. Pedicels 

 bractless, but bract-like organs scattered among the floral 

 leaves. Calyx fully }^-inch long, its upper lobes almost semi- 

 orbicular, confluent,, considerably broader than the three lower 

 lobes. Upper petal about ^-inch broad. Filaments downward 

 dilated. Fruit nearly ^-inch long, almost dimidiate-cordate, but 

 at the base nearly truncated, after dehiscence its valves much 

 rolled inward. Seeds unknown. 



The fascicular position of the leaves and the nestling of the 

 flowers among overbending indumentous young leaves give to 

 this species quite a pecuhar aspect. Systematically it approaches 

 jD. pedunculata. Incidentally it may here be mentioned that the 

 fruit of I), filipes according to Mrs. Biddulph's collection is 

 rhombiform-deltoid, much compressed and about ^-inch long. 



" Transformations of Australian Lepidoptera." — This 

 little pamphlet by Mr. James Lidgett, of Myrniong, Victoria, places 

 on record a number of observations on the early stages of several 

 butterflies and moths, principally Victorian. 



