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ficando paullo aucti labio superiore integro ovato-rotundato breviter 
acuminato labio inferiore ovato-oblongo bidentato dentibus tri- 
angularibus acutis, eas tubo calyci subequilongo intus bilan 
labio postico quam anticum breviore breviter lobato labio antico 
lobis lateralibus late obtemiia, obtusissimis lobo intermedio obovato 
emarginato, antherarum omnium connectivo deorsum breviter bar- 
ato. 
Hab. West aoe Darling Range, in Wellington District; 
FE. Pritzel, No. 
Folia enaite circa 2°5 cm. long., 0°8 em. lat.; costa ae 
subtus paullo eminens, cost laterales inconspicue. Pedunculi 
circa 0:7-0°9 cm. long. Bractex 0-4 cm. long. Calycis orescenti 
tubus 0°2 cm. long. ., In longitudinem nervosis; labium antic 
ions em. lat., hujus dentes 0°07 cm. long. Corolle tubus 0-4 
long. ; labii postici lobi ciliolati, 0: 15 cm. long.; labii antici lobi 
iatnblb 0-3 cm. et lobus See 0°35 cm. long. Nucule 
"12 cm. diam., rugosa, saltide' tek 
Distributed as H. rigida a Benth., Paes which it differs in respect 
of its leaves, setaceous bracts, and shortly toothed lower lip of 
calyx, among other points. 
Reference has been made above to plants collected in Western 
Australia by Herr K. Pritzel, who is, I presume, ee engaged in 
the botanical exploration of that country. In a parcel of these 
plants which reached the British Museum a eg s ee : 
noticed the f following few oversights in nomenclatu 
other subscribers may not be in so favourable a mE bition for 
secre have been distribute 
No. ** Aster”’ is Brachyoome ve iberidifolia Benth 
: .  Eremophila sp. noy.”’ is E. Drummondii F.M 
», 84. “ Melaleuca incana PR. Br.” is Kunzea ericifolia Reichb. 
», 88. * Podolepis thie Benth.” ‘This is the var. minor of 
~~ 
He bo 
that speci : . 
» 96. “ Stylidium tongabiniit R. Br.’ is S. utricularioides Benth. 
While on the subject of Australian plants, one ane perhaps be 
allowed a few words about the collections made by James Drummon 
” the early days of what was then called the ‘ stg River Settle- 
ent.” The most complete of Drummond’s sets is in the Herbarium 
at ae: that at the British Museum is not quite so good. There is, 
however, one unfortunate feature which detracts from the value of 
Drummond’s work as represented at Kew, and that is the occasional 
uncertainty as to the number, more often as to the year of collection 
n specimen. In the early days of the Kew Herbarium, 
collectors’ labels were often destroyed, sometimes without so much 
as inscribing the numbers upon the sheets. In Drummond's case 
the year of collection has been more often omitted than the number. 
