THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 4^ 



Stems about 5 to 8 centimetres long, occasionally more, rooting 

 at the basal nodes, and quite glabrous. Leaves 3 to 4 millimetres 

 long, flaccid, sessile, linear-lanceolate, in opposite pairs, joined at 

 their bases by a scarious sheath. Flowers axillary, on single 

 peduncles about _^ to i centimetre long. Sepals 5, obtusely 

 lanceolate, 2 millimetres in length, without any prominent 

 longitudinal lines, the margins white and scarious. Petals 5, about 

 as long as the sepals, but rather narrower, lanceolate-obovate, 

 white. Stamens usually 10. Styles 3. Ovary ovate, ovules few 

 in number. Fruit a capsule. 



The specimens were obtained by Mr. St. Eloy D'Alton, C.E., 

 from a peat swamp near Dimboola, and both genus and species 

 are new to Victoria. 



The following descriptions may also be published as provisional 

 species in the hope that local collectors may be enabled to 

 collect and forward dried and fresh specimens of the plants in 

 question for identification : — 



Triglochin turrifera, n. sp. ? 



A small tufted plant, perfectly glabrous. Leaves filiform, terete 

 or slightly fiattened, 6 to 10 cm. long. Scape, including the 

 flowering part, about as long, or somewhat shorter, than the 

 leaves. Flowers rather distant in the raceme, 6 to 12 in number, 

 shortly pedicellate, occasionally opposite. Ovary with 3 perfect 

 cells, and without any other rudimentary sterile cells, the 3 styles 

 quite short. Fruit nearly 3 mm. long and about i mm. in 

 diameter, turret-shaped, the broad base extended into six deltoid 

 points, the top shortly conical. 



Taylor's Creek, Wimmera District ; J. P. Eckert. 



This plant resembles T. mucronatutn, R. Br., in stature and 

 habit, but is easily distinguished by the peculiar fruit and the 

 absence of any sterile loculi. It may possibly prove to be a 

 variety of T. centrocarpum, Hook. 



AcROTRiCHE (Styphelia) serrulata, var. VENTRicosA (new var.) 

 A shrub of about 9 inches, diffuse or prostrate, with hairy 

 branches. Leaves nearly sessile, spreading, lanceolate, with 

 sharply pointed tips, fringed with hairs, lighter beneath, with 6 or 

 so fine longitudinal, nearly parallel veins, diverging at the margin, 

 6 to 9 mm. long. Flowers clustered at the bases of the branches, 

 with small obtuse bracts and bracteoles. Sepals about i mm. long, 

 ovate-lanceolate and obtuse, white or pink. Corolla tube much 

 inflated, whitish, transparent, about 5 mm. long, with an oblique 

 neck bent inwards towards the centre of the cluster. The lobes 

 about I mm. long, pale greenish, the throat with a few in- 

 conspicuous hairs ; hypogynous, with a truncate disc. Ovary 

 5-celled and faintly ribbed. 



Dry hills near Lilydale ; P. St. John. 



