38 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



and hill ranges indicated as seen during the trip, and as mapped 

 out in the main by Mr. Stirling. 



Figure i represents a view of the peak of Mount Ellery, and is 

 copied from a photograph by Mr. Walter. We are indebted to 

 R. L. J' Ellery, Esq., F.R.S., for the loan of the photograph. 



Figure 2 represents a young cabbage tree palm, which has not 

 yet grown above the tops of the surrounding trees. 



Figure 3 represents a group of full-grown palms, growing by 

 the side of Cabbage Tree Creek. 



Figure 4 represents a group of Humea elegans, some of which 

 attain the height of from 15 to 20 feet. They are growing in a 

 deep gorge at the base of the Coast Range, close to Goon Murk. 



Figure 5 represents a waratah (Telopea oreades), growing at the 

 head of a gully on Mount Ellery. 



Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 are from sketches by W. B. Spencer. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GOMPHOLOBIUM FROM 

 SOUTH-WESTERN AUSTRALIA, with Notes on 

 OTHER Species of that Genus. 



ByBakonvon Mueller, K.C.M.G., M. & Ph.D., F.R.S. &c. 



GOMPHOLOBIUM EaTONItE. 



Branchlets beset with very short grey hairlets ; leaves small, 

 sessile ; stipules, none ; leaflets three, sessile, revolute along the 

 margin, thus linear-cylindric, recurved-pointed outside somewhat 

 rugulous and from minute sharp elevations rough ; flowers axillary, 

 solitary ; their stalks short, glabrous, bearing early deciduous 

 blunt bracts at the base and very small acute bracteoles at or 

 near the middle ; calyx glabrous outside ; its lobes semilanceolar, 

 only about as long as the tube, the upper two slightly shorter and 

 somewhat oblique, all partially beset with minute hairlets inside ; 

 upper petal renate-orbicular ; lateral petals semihastate-elliptic ; 

 lower petals almost semiorbicular-ovate, black-purplish, the others 

 red-purplish, all glabrous and with a conspicuous stalklike narrow 

 base ; anthers ellipsoid, quite pale ; style glabrous, flattened ; 

 stigma minute, ovulary glabrous ; ovules few. 



Near the eastern sources of Swan-River ; Miss Martha Eaton. 



G. Ba.cteri, to which our new plant is nearest allied, differs 

 from it in the development of conspicuous stipules, in generally 

 more slender leaflets, in more deeply cleft calyces with a thin 

 vestiture also outside and with somewhat sticky lobes much 

 thickened along their margin, in petals of seemingly lighter colour 

 with always shorter stalkUke base, in a capillary-thin style and in 

 the ovulary being outside beset with hairlets. As regards fruit 



