THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 47 



The finder and myself have bestowed on this particularly hand- 

 some and rare plant the name of the honourable J. Carruthers, to 

 mark permanently our recognition of the enlightened views, 

 evinced by the honourable gentleman as Minister of Public 

 Instruction of New South Wales, in which capacity he has also 

 much promoted the interests of the Technologic Museum of 

 Sydney, and therewith Mr. Maiden's and Mr. Baeuerlen's 

 researches. 



If Phebalium is to be maintained, then our new plant should 

 be placed in that genus ; but this would bring about the necessity 

 of breaking also up the closely allied genus Boronia, on similar 

 considerations. 



Bassia luehmanni. 



Rather dwarf; leaves very small, from rhomboid- to cuneate- 

 spatular, nearly flat, in the young state as well as the branchlets 

 closely beset with whitish soft hairlets ; tube of the calyx very 

 short ; spinules several or many, short, very irregular in form, 

 some thinly subulate, others downward dilated, partly connate 

 and variously denticulated ; stigmas usually two ; seed horizontal. 



Near the Finke-River ; Rev. W. F. Schwarz. 



Vestiture somewhat appressed and shining. Leaves without 

 particular succulence, narrowed into a conspicuous petiole, 

 often yi inch broad. Fruit-calyx very depressed, small, imper- 

 fectly beset with hairlets, the closed portion only slightly higher 

 than the seeds, below furrowed. 



This species is distinguishable from all others of the section 

 Anisacantha unless B. Birchii by greater breadth of the leaves in 

 proportion to their length and by more numerous spinules of the 

 calyx. Irrespective of these characteristics it is separated from 

 B. divaricata by the very short calyx-tube, the greater inequality 

 of the spinules and the horizontal position of the seed. 



Many of the leaves are quite as broad as those of Chenopodium 

 microphyllum, although the two plants stand in sections separated 

 on leaf-characteristics. 



The species is dedicated to G. Luehmann, Esq., F.L.S., First 

 Assistant in the Phytologic Department here, who during many 

 years has zealously aided the researches of its founder, and who 

 especially participated in the laborious task of preparing the 

 materialfor Mr. Graff's extensive series of drawings, with the 

 necessity of renewed investigations for characteristics, and in 

 revising the work of this accomplished artist prior to the litho- 

 graphic issue. 



B. Birchii includes as a variety B. Cornishiana. 



In Ascherson and Schweinfurth's " Illustration de la Flore 

 d'Egypte," p. 122 (1887) the genus Bassia of Allioni has also 

 been duly restored there for Kochia latifolia and K. mwicaia, 



