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Verticordia iNSifiNis, Endl. W.A., between Fraser Range 

 and Esperance Bay (P. A. Gwyiine). 



Verticordia Rennieana, sp. nor. W.A., between Red Hill 

 and Yilgarn. 



Rather dwarf, glabrous except the flowers ; leaves short, 

 linear-semi-cyliiidric, slightly acute, dorsally beset with promin- 

 ent oil-glandules ; pedicels about as long as the leaves, shorter 

 than the expanded flowers ; bracteoles very broad, whitish, only 

 short-apiculate ; calyx-lobes three-seriate, the upper white except 

 at the base, with moderately ciliar-pennate segments ; calyx-lobes 

 of the middle series minute, recurved, fasoicular-fimbriate ; those 

 of the lowest row repressed, semiorbicular, much adnate, entire, 

 hyaline, forming basal appendages to the upper lobes ; calyx-tube 

 short, glabrous, unfurrowed ; petals pale, obovate, somewhat sur- 

 passing the upper calyx-lobes, entire ; staminodes fringeless : 

 fertile anthers cordate-ellipsoid, opening by rather long slits ;. 

 style quite short, the summit papillular-fringed ; stigma incon- 

 spicuous ; ovulary depressed-globular, but attemuited into the 

 style. 



Height, so far as observable from the transmitted specimens, 

 up to about one foot. Branchlets whitish. Leaves one-quarter 

 to one-third of an inch long, erect or slightly spreading, more 

 prominently glandular than those of most other congeners, re- 

 minding thus of those of several Urioslemo7is. Flowers rather 

 small, some scattered, some in separate pairs, some racemosely 

 approached among leaves. Petals about a quarter of an inch 

 long. Ripe fruit not obtained. 



This species is dedicated to the meritorious Professor of 

 Chemistry in the Adelaide University, Dr. Rennio, who dis- 

 tinguished himself also by phyto-chemic analyses, and who has 

 added here to the scientific obligations which we owe him by 

 carrying on with particular effectiveness the secretarial duties at 

 the recent Adelaide meeting of the Australian Association for 

 the Advancement of Science. 



This species differs from V. picta in smaller flowers, in the 

 presence of refracted accessory undivided calyx-lobes. 



It is distinguishable from V. Drummondii and V. pennigera 

 by longer leaves, the presence of fringed accessory calyx-lobes, 

 and by undivided not distinctly striate petals. 



Incidentally it may here be observed that V. Roei constitutes 

 a species distinct from F. insignis ; it belongs more particularly 

 to the upland region, from where, indeed, the Hon. Cant Roe 

 brought also his plant, while V. insignis pertains to the litoral 

 tracts ; the staminodes are certainly fringeless, as Endlicher 

 pointed out ; the coloration of the flowers is sufficiently different 



to allow of distinguishing 

 once rightly understood. 



these two plants at a glance w-hen 



