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BY W. P. BLAKELT. 397 



It bears a general i^semblance to L. Miquelii Lehm. The Endeavour River 

 specimen is particularly like it, with opposite, linear-lanceolate, triplinerved 

 leaves, 2-7 inches long, on slender terete pedicels 1:} inches long, 'llie bifurcate 

 peduncle is very marked, and is even distingnaishable in the minute cymes. The 

 swelling at the base of the corolla, when in bud, is greater than that of L. 

 Miquelii Lehm., although the buds and bracts are almost identical in both species. 



Bentham (B.Fl., I.e.) pointed out that it is allied to L. sanguineus Jb'.v.M. 

 and L. penduhis Sieber, "differing from both chiefly in the ramifications of the 

 peduncles." 



Hosts. — Myrtaceae: Eucalijptus clavigera A. Cunn., var ?, E. dichromophloia 

 F.V.M., E. microcorys F.v.M., E. terminalis F.v.M., E. transcontinentalvt Maiden. 



3. LOEANTHU.S FKRRUGINIFL0RU8 W. V. Fitz. (Plate xli.) 



Proe. Roy. Soc. W.A., iii., 1916-17, 35. 



Additional notes to the description. 



Mr. Fitzgerald presented his specimens to the National Herbarium, Sydney, 

 which enabled me to make a closer examination of his type, and to supplement 

 his description with a few morphological notes. 



Large pendulous shrubs with a ball-like union, branches 2-7 feet long 

 (taken from N.S.W. plants). Buds densely ferruginous tomentose when young, 

 robust, 2^ cm. long, clavate, about the same diameter at the top as at the base, 

 suleate, the lines indicating the demarcation of the petals; calyx cupular, 5 mm. 

 long, the border very prominent; bract entirely embracing the calyx when young, 

 broadly cordate, gibbose. Petals 5-6, narrow linear to narrow lanceolate, fer- 

 ruginous-tomentose below the free portion of the filaments, and considerably 

 broader at the base, filaments short, compressed, suleate, the adnate portion 

 thickened into a concave callosity about 4 mm. from the base, forming a neetai- 

 like cup for the secretion of nectar; filaments usually terminating in a spur-like 

 callosity at the base; anthers oblong, with conspicuous cells; style firm, angular; 

 stigTna somewhat compressed, with 3-5 depressions at the top. Fruit with a 

 prominent pentagonal disc. 



I have been unable to procure fresh fruits of this species, and therefore its 

 cotyledons and method of gei-mination are still unknown. 



Range. — Tlie range of this species at present extends from North- Western 

 Australia to the northern districts of New South Wales. 



Western Australia: Roebuck Bay (J. W. C. Tepper, No. 92, July, 1890, in 

 Adelaide Herbarium; kindly lent by Professor Osborn) ; Summit of Mount Haste 

 (W. V. Fitzgerald, No. 1291, July, 1905. I'he material is mixed — one specimen 

 in flower has broad lanceolate falcate leaves, the other is in the juvenile fruiting 

 stage, with pedicels 10 mm. long; the leaves are narrow linear, obscurely nerved, 

 17 cm. long) ; Summit of Mount Rason (W. V. Fitzgerald, July, 1905. Leaves 

 broad lanceolate, obtuse, 3 — 5-nerved, 23 em. long; fruits sub-globose, almost 

 glabrous. This specimen is less tomentose than the preceding) ; Broome (W. V. 

 Fitzgerald, July, 1906. Leaves narrow Jinear like the Mt. Haste specimen ; buds 

 robust about half grown; the broad bracts completely embracing the calyces. 

 These three specimens constitute the type). 



Queensland: Rockhampton (Amelia Dietrich, No. 1134, in Herb. Melb. One 

 leaf is fully 10 inches long, with the petiole nearly 2 inches); Eidsvold (Dr. T. 

 L. Bancroft, August, 1911, in Queensland Herbarium) ; 10 miles from Eidsvold, 

 on Eucalyptus macidata (Dr. T. L. Bancroft. No. 431. Petals purplish inside. 



