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dark-striped flowers, is locally known as the "Stuart Pea." 

 C. dissiti flora, Benth., var. eremaea, F. v. M. Mulka (R. 

 Cockburn ; Dist. C). Stipes of pod almost as long as calyx. 

 Zygophyllaceae. — Zygophyllum fruticidosum, DC. 

 Specimens from Bell Rock, on the Murray, have smaller 

 flowers and fruit than usual and slender diffuse stems, each 

 capsule containing, hy abortion, only one or two seeds. 



Rut ace ae. 



Phebalium builatum, sp. nova. (tab. xlvii.). Fruti- 

 culus erectus vix metralis, foliis cuneato-linearibus 5-12 mm. 

 longis rigidis crassis margine glanduloso-bidlatis supra viridi- 

 bus acutiuscule canaliculatis mbtus argenteo-lepidotis et 

 nervum medium, prominent em ostendentibus, umbellis ter- 

 minalibus, ramulis pedicellis ecdycibusque lepidotis, calyce 

 obtuse et breviter dentato, petalis intus flavis extus squamidis 

 rufescentibus et albis vestitis, staminibus exsertis, filamentis 

 glabris flavis, antheris caducis glandula terminates, stylo basin 

 versus stellato-piloso , carpellis dense lepidotis. 



South Australia : River Murray (Tate Herbarium, 

 labelled "Eriostemon lepidotus, F. v. M., var. amiefolius"); 

 Ninety-mile Desert (Tate Herbarium, collector, J. Gudge, 

 labelled "Eriostemon sediflorus, F. v. M."); Wilkawatt (T. 

 G. B. Osborn) ; between Murray Bridge and Callington; 

 Karoonda (J. M. Black). 



Victoria (localities kindly supplied by Professor Ewart) : 

 Near Lake Hindmarsh (Mrs. Captain Rowan); north-west of 

 Lake Hindmarsh (C. French, sen.); north-west of Lake Alba- 

 cutya (C. French, sen.). 



Flowers September and October. Seems to have been 

 first included by Baron von Mueller under Eriostemon sedi- 

 florus (Phebalium glcmdulosum, Hook.), and later under E. 

 stenopliyllus, F. v. M., which was originally considered by 

 Mueller to be merely a variety of E . lepidotus, F. v. M. (Ph. 

 squamulositm , Vent.). The varietal name quoted in the Tate 

 Herbarium seems to have been given by Mueller, but not 

 published; I do not understand the word "amiefoli'iis" ; it is 

 perhaps a transcriber's error for "crassifolius." The new 

 species differs from its three East- Australian allies (Ph. 

 glandulosum, squatnulosvin, and stenophyllum ) in the leaves 

 linear-cuneate, more or less acutely channelled above and with 

 a prominent midrib below, never recurved or revolute on the 

 margins, and with very conspicuous glandular tubercles and 

 silvery scales on the margins and underside. The style is 

 stellate-hairy towards the base, while in the other three species 

 it is glabrous. 



