396 THK LOB^VNTHACEAB OF AUSTRALIA, ill., 



Supplementary notes to the description. 



The following additional notes are taken from Dr. T. L. Bancroft's No. 

 862, from Eidsvold, Queensland. There are no records as to the mode of at- 

 tachment, or habit of the plant, but no doubt it is similar to L. pendulus Sleber. 



Leaves thin, pale-coloured, the yoimg ones slightly glaucous, narrow to broad 

 lanceolate, 3- or 5-nerved, 2 to 8 inches long, the petiole rather long and terete. 

 Peduncles two or three together in the axils of the leaves, slender, 6 to 10 cm. 

 long; pedicels slender, 9-10 mm. long. Buds minutely pubescent when quite 

 young, glabrous when mature, shading from gTeen to reddish-purple in colour, 

 2.5 cm. long, considerably inflated at the base, striate and somewhat quadrangulai- 

 clavate at the top. Bracts cordate, concave, not large, slightly enlarged under 

 the ripe fruit, but not nearly to the same extent as in some species. Calyx 

 obeonical, minutely rusty tomentose, the limb minute. Petals dark purple-brown 

 inside. Filaments the same colour as the petals, the adnate portion ending in a 

 spur-like callosity at the base. Anthers 3-4 mm. long, linear, adnate. Style 

 ang-ular, rather persistent on the fruit, straw-coloured; stigma slightly enlarged, 

 capitate. Fruit eylindrical-urceolate or bottle-shaped, yellowish-green when ripe, 

 glabrous, or sometimes minutely scurfy; upper portion of the epicarp much 

 thicker than the basal portion. Seeds cylindrical, slightly corrugated, 12 mm. 

 long; viscin scanty. Endosperm white; embryo gTeen; hypocotyl very short, 

 green, verrueose; disc not much enlarged; embryonic cotyledons not withdrawn 

 from the endosperm on germination. Primary leaves linear-lanceolate, but not 

 seen when fully developed. 



Range. — L. bifurcatus Benth. is so far found in Queensland, Northern Ter- 

 ritory, and Western Australia. The following are the localities. 



Queensland: Mt. Lindsay, on Eucalyptus mierocorys (C. T. White) ; Eids- 

 vold (Dr. T. L. Bancroft, August, 1911, in Queensland Herbarium), parasitic on 

 Eucalyptus dichromopldoia, Nov., 1918. Dr. Bancroft states that it is common on 

 the Bloodwoods; Mount Perry, on Eucalyptuls sp. (Jas. Kej's, No. 165, in Queens- 

 land Herbarium); Barcaldine, on Eucalyptus terminalis (C. 1'. White, No. 11, 

 April, 1919. Fruits infested with insects) ; Endeavour River (Banks and Solan- 

 der, 1770). This specimen was received from the British Museum. It is de- 

 picted in James Britten, Illustrations Botany Cook Voyage, iii., p. 85, Tab. 275, 

 under L. pendulus Sieber, and will be a useful reference to those who are unable 

 to obtain specimens of this somewhat rare species. 



Bentham does not appear to have seen the specimens collected by Banks and 

 Solander, for he does not refer to it in his "Flora Australiensis," notwithstand- 

 ing the fact that it was found thirty-two years before Robert Brown collected it. 

 The specimen is of special interest as it was doubtless collected while the En- 

 deavour was undergoing repaii-s in the river which Captain Cook named after 

 his vessel. 



Northern Territory: Gulf of Carpentaria (Robert Brown, 1802. 'Phe type. 

 Quoted by Bentham, I.e.) ; Camp ii., N.T., parasitic on No. 241, Eucalyptus 

 transcontinentalis (G. F. Hill, No. 242, vide Ewart and Davies, Flora Northern 

 Territory, 1917, p. 88). 



Western Australia: Derby. "Common on Eucalyptus clavigera, var. ?, a 

 very characteristic species, with young unripe fruits" (No. 1181, C.H. Ostenfeld, 

 Dansk. Botanisk Arkiv., Bot. 2, Nr. 8, 14, 1918). Roebuck Bay (in Adelaide 

 Herbarium, kindly lent by Professor Osborn). 



Affinities. — L. bifurcatus Benth. appears to be more closely allied to L. 

 ferruginiflorus W.V.Fitz. than to any other species. It is, however, smaller and 

 more glabrous in the inflorescence, and the bracts and buds are different in shape. 



