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celled, augmented by a large somewhat membraneous blunt 

 appendage ; anthers of the lower stamens two-celled, one of the 

 cells distant and diminutive; style glabrous, quite enclosed; stigmas 

 extremely narrow; fruitlets reticular-rough. 



Near Mt. Playfair, with Zi<>ria aspalathoides ; Miss H. S. 

 Biddulph. 



Leaves subtle-dotted, when well developed 1^-2 inches long. 

 Bracteoles very short, linear, acute, placed on the pedicel above 

 its base. Calyx %- x /i inch long. Corolla probably white, the 

 two upper lobes considerably shorter than the three lower, its 

 basal portion narrow-cylindric, thence the widening almost campa- 

 nulas Pollen-grains dark-purplish, when moistened globular and 

 smooth. Fruitlets oblique-obovate, slightly compressed, about yi 

 inch long, outside brown. 



As regards size and form of leaves this species comes near H. 

 incana and H. sericea, which however in several other respects 

 are very different ; indeed the plant belongs to the section Diplan- 

 thera, but the three West Australian plants constituting that 

 section have much smaller leaves and other distinguishing charac- 

 teristics. This species approaches nearer to the tropics, than any 

 congener. 



(To be continued.) 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



To the Editor of the Victorian Naturalist. 



Dear Sir, — No doubt Mr. Keartland's important notes on the 

 Australian Teals will be read with interest by every member of the 

 Club. If you will allow me, and without detracting from the value 

 of Mr. Keartland's remarks, there is one point he did not make 

 very clear. On the Club's list of the fauna of King Island the 

 Chestnut-breasted Teal is the only one named, and Mr. Keartland 

 says: — "No mention was made of the common sombre ones, which 

 were found on almost every lagoon on the island, and on the sea- 

 coast." Might it not really be a fact that the sombre ones 

 were the females of the chestnut variety, especially as the birds 

 were in company, and as Mr. Keartland himself, further on in his 

 remarks, states that there is a " similarity of the female bird in 

 both species ? " — Yours truly, 



THOS. G. CAMPBELL. 



1 8th August, 1890. 



Nautilus shells (says the Portland Guardian) continue to be 

 picked up by fortunate hunters. The search after the shells is 

 very keen, and before daylight numbers of enthusiasts visit the 

 beaches ready to prosecute their searches as soon as the morning 

 breaks. 



