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BentJiam. W.A., W; 



ausjerinsr 



(with 



Stackiiousia Brunonis, 

 four-winged fruits). 



MYRTACEvE. 



Darwinia Luehmanni, spec. nor. Glabrous throughout; 

 branchlets numerous, whitish ; leaves short, crowded, linear- 

 tngonous, bluntish ; flowers crowded into small, almost hemis- 

 pheric headlets ; inner involucral bracts mostly ovate, membran- 

 ous towards the margin ; pedicels undeveloped; bracteoles nearly 

 elliptic; lower part of the calyx transversely rugular and slightly 

 squamulous - papillular, thence the calyx-tube much extended 

 beyond the ovulary; calyx-lobes semi-orbicular; petals almost 

 ianceolar, several times longer than the calyx-lobes ; staminodes 

 subulate-linear, towards the base broadish ; stamens slightly sur- 

 pa,ssing the staminodes ; style capillulary, near the stigma 

 minutely barbellate ; ovules two. 



^ Eighty-five miles N.E. by E. from Esperance Bay (P. A. 

 G Wynne), 



Leaves generally about quarter-inch long. Headlets lialf to 

 two-thirds inch broad. Inner bracts to half inch long, truncate 

 ■>;t the base; bracteoles similar, exceeding somewhat the flowers, 

 ^alyx tive-streaked. Petals white, about one-sixth inch long. 

 fc>tamens nearly half as long as the petals ; anthers quite dark, 

 globular. Style measuring fully half-inch in length. Ripe fruit 

 not obtained. 



Nearest in affinity to D. virescens, which, however, is more 

 decumbent, has the leaves darker green and more prominently 

 dotted, larger flower-headlets, distinct pedicels, though short; 

 C'llyx smoothish all over, its lobes almost semilanceolar (but 

 originally described by Meissner as ovate), petals towards the 

 base thicker, staminodia somewhat clavellate. 



The species has been dedicated to Mr. G. Luehmann, Assistant 

 at the phytologic establishment of Melbourne, who in the pre- 

 "minary examination of the Helms-collection has on 

 Occasions given valuable aid. 



Daiuvinia diosmoides, Bentham. W.A., near 

 ^ne to two feet ; also Esperance Bay (Dempster) 

 (Miss Brooks). 



Verticordia Brownii, De Gand. W.A., 



many 



Warangering, 

 Israelite Bay 



K 



W; 



'■ngaroo Hill and Yilgarn. 

 Verticobdia ciibysantha, JSndl 



between Red 



arangering ; between 

 (Gwynne). 



V"erticordia humilis, Bentham. 

 ^^ed Kangaroo Hill ; near Gnarlbine. 



VERTICORDIA MULTIFLORA, Turc:.., 



'kangaroo Hill and Yiltjarn. 



W.A., near Gnarlbine and 

 Esperance Bay and Eraser Range 



W.A., 15 miles West of 

 var. W.A., between Red 



