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Stamens all very much shorter than the sepals, partly sterile ; 

 perfect anthers roundish-cordate, pale ; style about as long as 

 the stamens, glabrous, almost lateral ; fruit oblique, very slightly 

 beset with minute hairlets. 



Between York and Hampton-Plains ; W. Sayer and A. 

 ■Carlson. 



Vestiture from very tender articulated hairlets. Root thin. 

 Radical leaves inclusive of the petiolar base hardly above i^- 

 inches long or shorter ; upper stem-leaves shortened to about 

 half an inch. Capitular spike broader than long, at least in its 

 ■earlier stage, attaining nearly an inch diameter, very blunt at 

 the base. Bracts almost blackish, externally bearing rather 

 long but delicate hairlets. Sepals tubularly connivent, about 

 half an inch long, connected only near the base ; their outer 

 vestiture even below the middle imperfect, the yellow colora- 

 tion upwards gradually more intense. Ripe fruit as yet 

 unknown. Strange among its congeners as regards the colour 

 of the flowers, thus rather reminding of some Helichrysum or 

 Helipterum at first sight. 



What has been seen by the writer hitherto may indicate only 

 a small state of the plant ; its habit is that of P. spatulatum 

 and P, holosericeum during their first year's growth. The 

 upwards extensively glabrous sepals bring P. Manglesii into 

 recollection. Some affinity to P. grandiflorus must also be 

 conceded. The reduction of the genus Trichinium by Poiret 

 to Ptilotus was effected nearly a year earlier than the union 

 reversedly made by Sprengel. 

 Cassia Cuthbertsoni. 



Dwarf-shrubby ; leaves short-stalked ; stipules small, subulate, 

 slightly spinescent, deciduous ; leaflets in six or fewer pairs, 

 small, of thick texture, almost sessile, from narrowly elliptic 

 cuneate to obovate or even almost orbicular, slightly recurved 

 at the margin, above dark-green, shining and glabrous, beneath 

 as well as the branchlets, leaf-rhaches, flower-stalks and stalk- 

 lets, sepals and ovulary beset with a whitish velvet-like vestiture ; 

 glandules on the rhachis absent, replaced by tufts of very 

 minute black hairlets ; peduncles axillary, rather short, bearing 

 terminally from two to four flowers ; stalklets about as long as 

 the largest sepals or somewhat longer, but considerably 

 exceeding the always small bracts ; petals glabrous ; stamens 

 ten or occasionally less, all much shorter than the petals ; 

 anthers almost of equal size, the lowest on short filaments, the 

 others nearly sessile ; style very short ; ovulary nearly semi- 

 circular-curved. 



On the Upper Ashburton-River ; W. Cuthbertson. 



Where found only one foot high. Leaflets mostly from ^ to 

 ^ inch long. Petals roundish, deep-yellow, about ^ inch long. 

 Anthers duU-brownish. Fruit unknown 



