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ASTROTRICHA BlDDULPHIANA. 



Tall ; leaves crowded, comparatively short, broadish-linear, 

 acute, only slightly recurved at the margin, above glabrous, be- 

 neath as well as the branches bearing a close very thin pale- 

 brownish stellular indument ; umbels amply paniculated, the 

 whole inflorescence glabrous ; peduncles elongated ; involucral 

 bracts quite small, almost semi-lanceolar ; pedicels many times 

 longer than the flowers, capillary thin ; calyx-lobes minute, del- 

 toid ; breadth of the petals quite half of their length ; anthers 

 greyish ; young fruit moderately turgid. 



Near Mt. Playfair ; Mrs. H. Biddulph. 



Height to 6 feet ; differs from Astrotricha ledifolia in still 

 narrower leaves, probably always glabrous panicle, longer and 

 thinner pedicles, rather smaller flowers with seemingly purplish 

 dark, coloured petals and perhaps also in the shape of the ripe 

 fruit, which as yet is not known. 



Although from a solitary specimen available the degree of 

 variability of this plant cannot be preconceived, yet the character- 

 istics are such, as to lead to the assumption, that we have in this 

 instance to deal with a plant of real specific distinctiveness, and 

 one which like many others, brought to knowledge already from 

 the same locality, is quite restricted to that region. 



The lady-finder has sent from there also Duboisia Leichhardtii 

 with fruit, whereby the generic position of that rare and thera- 

 peutically important plant is now also affirmed. She collected 

 with the aid of accomplished daughters also Burtonia foliolosa, 

 Goodenia racemosa and some other rare plants. A. ledifolia 

 occurs also on the Genoa ; A. longifolia on Shoalhaven (Baeuer- 

 len) ; A. ptetocarpa between the sources of the Nagoa and Glen- 

 lee in the sandstone-gorges (F. Clewett) ; on Mount Wheeler 

 (Thozet) ; on the Upper Barcoo (Archer). 



Thismia Rodwayi. 



Stem flexuous, short, undivided, colourless ; leaves few, 

 scattered, bract-like, rudimentary, semilanceolar, acuminate; flower 

 solitary ; involucre close to the flower, consisting of three small 

 semilanceolar appressed bracts, like the leaves colourless ; calyx 

 flesh-coloured, somewhat succulent, almost campanulate ; lobes 

 much shorter than the tube, semilanceolar-deltoid, spreading ; 

 petals emanating from the summit of the calyx-tube, about twice 

 as long as the calyx-lobes, converging, ovate-cuneate, at the 

 summit overlapping and there connate, by the excurrent carinular 

 line apiculate; stamens deflexed, fixed at the summit of the calyx- 

 tube ; filaments broad, connate, dark-red towards their base, 

 continued beyond the anther-cells into a pale membranous dilated 

 and minutely biapiculated connective ; anther-cells ellipsoid, 

 parallel, slightly distant from each other; style short; stigmas 

 three, bifid ; ovulary one-celled, almost hemispheric, excavated 



