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(tRevillea acuaria, F. f. JI. W.A., Victoria Desert (C. 54, 

 C. 56, C. 59). 



Agrees in every respect witli Drummond's plant, except that 

 most of the leaves are twice as broad, unless the fruit (still un- 

 l5:nown) should reveal specific differences. The corolla is red. In 

 the greater width of the leaves it reminds of G. sparsiflora. 



Geevillea Helmsiana, spec. nov. Branchlets thinly grey- 

 tomentollous , leaves pinnatisected, on short petioles, greyish, 

 segments 14 or less, more erect than spreading, linear, pungent- 

 pointed, refracted along the margin, but slightly invested with 

 appressed hairlets beneath ; racemes hardly longer than broad ; 

 flowers comparatively large ; pedicels conspicuous, as well as the 

 rachis densely beset with short appressed hairlets ; corolla rather 

 scantily provided with vestiture outside, bearing scattered hairlets 

 up to the middle inside ; pistil (juite glabrous, hypogynous glan- 

 dule hippocropic, torus almost horizontal, laterally divergent ; 

 stipes free ; ovulary very gibbous ; style long-exserted ; stigma 

 laterally descendent. 



Near Eraser's Range at Camp 71. 



Total length of leaves, three inches or less ; segments hardly 

 one-tenth inch broad ; bracts very fugacious ; total longitudinal 

 dimension of the coralla about three-quarters inch, but appearing 

 less from the terminal curvature, the petals probably reddish, 

 unless yellowish ; hypogynous glandule much compressed, very 

 prominent, the oase very blunt. Fruit unknown. 



This species differs from G. stenomera in more pointed leaf- 

 segments, broader, never almost pendently recurved racemes, 

 longer flowers, thicker, quite glabrous style, more angular ovulary 

 on comparatively shorter stipes, more patent glandule, longer 

 stigma ; and the fruit characteristic, as yet inascertainable, may 

 be also different. 



This new Grevillea shows some affinity to G. longisiyla, par- 

 ticularly in reference to aspect of the racemes ; but the stipes 

 adnate to the descending torus and the vestiture of the ovulary 

 distinguish it also from the form with smaller leaves. 



G. leucophris and G. tripartita come also in some respects near 

 our new species. 



Grevillea TREUiiiANA, F. v. M. W.A., Victoria Desert 

 (C. 59). This species differs from G. asparagoides besides the 

 characteristics originally indicated (Fragm. Phyt. Austral, IX., 

 p. 123) in the color of the floral vestiture, grey not brownish, 

 unless at the summit of the flowers. 



Hakea lorea, R. Brown. S.A., Arkaringa Valley and near 

 Everard liange ; W.A., Cavenagh and Barrow Ranges. " Cork- 

 bark tree," attaining to 20 feet ; bark corky, deeply fluted, three 

 and a half inches at most, half-inch at least in thickness. 



