[Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 35 (N.S.), Pt. II., 1923.] 



Art. XIX. — Gontrihutions from the National EerbariuTn 

 of Victoria, No. 3* 



By J. R. TOVEY and P. F. MORRIS. 



' [Read 14th December, 1922.] 



The present paper contains, (1) a description of a new species of 

 Kunzea from West Australia, Kunzea sulphurea; (2) records of new 

 regional distribution of native and introduced plants; (3) a new 

 introduction in Victoria; (4) alterations in the botanical nomenclature 

 of plants in accordance with article 48 of the {Rules of the) Vienna 

 Botanical Congress (1905); (5) additions to the Introduced Flora of 

 Coode Island, in which six exotic plants have been recorded for the 

 first time. 



Kunzea sulphurea, sp. nov. 



Frutex ramosus 5m. altus; foliis oblongis-cuneatis 3-4 mm. longis, 

 1-1. 5mm. latis; bracteis 3mm. longis, 2-2. 5mm. latis; bracteolis angus- 

 tioribus. Fetalis sulphureis. 



A tall, almost arborescent, glabrous shrub up to 18 feet high. 

 Leaves alternate, very shortly petiolate, 3-4 mm. long, 1-1. 5mm. broad, 

 oblong-cuneate, obtuse or slightly acuminate, flat, erect or slightly 

 recurved, imbricate on the younger branchlets. Flowers glabrous, ses- 

 sile, about 20 in a terminal globular head — the branches growing 

 through after flowering; the rhachis pubescent. Bracts ovate, boat 

 shaped, scarious, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, veins plainly visible. Brac- 

 teoles narrower. Calyx tube 3-4mm. long, ovoid, glabrous sometimes, 

 ridged at the base, oil dots conspicuous; lobes small, i length of 

 petals, ovate, obtuse. Petals yellow, about i the size of the calyx 

 tube. Stamens about 30, nearly 3 times as long as the petals. Ovary 

 5-celled, about 6 ovules in each cell. Seeds black, oblong. Immature 

 capsule, 3-4 mm. diameter. 



Habitat. — Big Brook, Warren District, Western Australia, Max; 

 Koch, No. 2539, Nov. 1920. 



Placed in the section Eukunzea near K. micrantha. 



Cbassula exserta (Reader) Ostenf. (Crassulaceae) . 



Flinders Island, Tasmania, Dr. C. S. Sutton, Nov., 1912, 

 This plant was previously recorded from Victoria only. 



Statice Thouini, Viv. " Thouin's Sea Lavender," (Plumbaginaceae).. 

 Mt. Wycheproof, Rev. W. W. Watts, Nov. 1916; Birchip, Oct., 1918; 

 Ouyen, Mr. McGregor, October, 1922. 



'No. 2 in the Proc. Roy. Soc. Vic, Vol. 35, pt. I. 



