ALABASTRA DIVERSA 147 
03cm. Corolle tubus 0-7-0°8 em. long., basi 0-075 em. faucibus 
0-2 cm. lat. ; labium posticum humectatum circa 0-7 cm. long. ; lobi 
laterales robunidate fere 1°5 cm. ye ; labium anticum 
: ; 1 
To be inserted in the genus near 8S. rivularis Wall... Known at 
once by the greatly curved upper lip of the hae corollas, 
ProteacEz. 
Haxea suserea 8. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xxxiv. 223. 
sis lorea F. Muell. & Tate in Trans. Roy. Soc. 8. Aust. xvi. 362, 
R. Br.).—Mr. ate V. Fitegerald says of this (Journ. Proc. 
Mueller Bot. Soc. no. xi. 60): ‘* The Eastern goldfields form of this 
species has been r seat described as a distinct cori under the 
name of H. inhale, iy Moore. Having examined specimens of the 
typical H. lorea and compared them with the go oldfields plant, 
I failed to obveiets any combination of characters of sufficient 
importance to justify the creation of a new species.’’ On the other 
and, in the place above cited I have remarked: ‘‘ Two congeners 
more easily separable it would be scarcely possible to find.” 
T e’’ of the species, which, of course, is at the British 
Museum, is a plant found by Robert Brown at Shoal Water Bay, on 
Queenslan d coast. Bentham (Fl. Aust. v aaah gives only one 
locality outside Queensland for H. lorea— tack 
Northern Australia. The value of his Seed is, however, 
— by the oer ere (J. c.) here following: ‘‘ Several of the 
n 
cimens 
measure ; doubtful. = Except for the Brown specimens, the only one 
true H. saben I have seen is at Kew, and was collected by Thozet 
at Rockham 
That Mueller cng eam had H. suberea under examination can- 
not be - In his Second Census (p. 120) H. lorea is said to 
occur in all the sae bie except Victoria and, of course, Tasmania. 
Seeing that the points of difference between H. suberea and H, lorea 
are so numerous and so pronounced, it is indeed hard to understand 
how such a practised botanist came to confound them. Moreover, 
from the phyto- point of view the conspecificity of Hakea 
specimens from he Queensland littoral with others from the West 
cimens agreeing well with type. But, w is be so or not, 
there cannot shadow of a doubt as to ts peste ae 
between the two plants in question, and in this opinion I a 
Pp m sup- 
ported by the testimonyof botanical friends who have seen the type 
and desert specimens side by sid 
EuPHORBIACER. 
Bertya Brownii, sp. n Fruticosa, ramis ramulisqu 
dentibus bene foliosis fulvo- ssulhi: tomentosis deinde piabeseentsites 
vel puberulis, foliis brevipetiolatis oblongis utrinque obtusis planis 
