NOTE ON BRACHYCOME MELANOCARRAl 

 SONDER. 



By L. Rodway. • 

 (R"ead 13th September, 1909.) 



I take this opportunity of placing on record the oc- 

 currence of Brachycome melanocarpa. Sender et F. von 

 Mueller as a native of Tasmania. It has as yet only 

 been gathered on the eastern slope of Mount Welling- 

 ton, in a damp locality at about 3,000 feet altitude, but 

 probably occurs elsewhere, only its general resemblance 

 to B. scapiformis, D.C., has caused it to be overlooked. 

 It has hitherto been recorded from South Australia, 

 Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland. 



A tufted perennial, sending up annual flowering 

 scapes of usually four to ten inches in height, as in B. 

 scapiformis, it differs in being more extensively hirsute ; 

 the leaf has a long attenuated base or petiole, an ob- 

 cuneate apex with usually seven bold dentures;' the 

 scape is coarser, with more leafy bracts, or commonly 

 bears a gradually reduced series of foliage leaves, but 

 these characters are ' not quite constant for either 

 species. The involucral bracts are shorter, blunter, and 

 rather more scarious, and the ray florets are shorter. 

 But the typical character is found in the achene. In B. 

 scapif6rmis this 'orgah is flat, smooth, with acute or 

 winged edges; while in/;B,;:melanorC;arpa (it lisinarrowli?' 

 obovate, slightly compressed with very obtuse edges, 

 usually tubercu'late, viscid, and' black. The pappus is 

 .formed of many sm^||jftdi^^tin^,-^fii,t;][3i'il^ti^ .; ,• . 



' '"¥liis 'plaint is an intei-estingaMition to our flora. 



