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3. Tannodia tenuifolia Prain. Pedicelli calyce longiores. 

 Var. a genuina. Folia pubescentia. — Holstia tenuifolia Pax in 



Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xliii. 220 (1909). 



Africa orientalis. Africa orientalis germanica ; secus fl. Lofia, 

 600 m. s.m., Goetze 442 ! In ditione Nyassa ; in montibus Shire 

 apud Ruo, Scott Elliot 8664 ! Rhodesia ; Boruma, Menyharth 

 794! 



Var. ^ glahrata Prain. Folia glabra. 



Africa orientalis. x\frica orientalis germanica ; Usambara 

 orientalis, inter Lungusam et Deremam, 450-600 m. s.m., Engler 

 444 ! Africa orientaUs lusitanica ; Mozambique, apud Gorongoza, 

 ad fl. M'kulumazi, Vasse 440 ! 



4. Tannodia sessilifloea Prain. Pedicelli calyce breviores. 

 — Holstia sessilifiora Pax in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xHii. 220 (1909). 



Africa orientalis. Africa orientalis germanica ; Usambara, 

 apud Buiti, Hoist 2377 ! 



A NEW PTILOTUS. 

 By W. V. Fitzgerald. 



Ptilotus (Trichinium) fasciculatus, sp. nov. Perennis, ramis 

 sterilibus brevibus foliigeris ; caulibus adscendentibus simplicibus ; 

 foliis inferne fasciculatis vel arete approximatis superne remotis, 

 lineari-teretibus mucronato-acutis glabris basi persistentibus ; 

 spicis terminalibus globulosis vel ovoideis rhachi albo-lanoso, 

 bracteis bracteolisque sequalibus late ovatis mucronatis dorso 

 carinatis tenuiter scariosis dilute stramineis; perianthio saepe 

 leviter incurvato, tubo breviter turbinate, segmentis rigidissimis 

 ecostatis subviridibus extus dense et breviter phimosis apice sub- 

 rubris glabris, segmentis exterioribus lineari-lanceolatis bi-tri- 

 dentatis intus glabris, interioribus leviter brevioribus subacutis 

 vel acutis intus infra medium dense albo-lanosis ; staminibus 

 duobus solum perianthio subaequalibus ; filamentis basi breviter 

 dilatatis sursum filiformi-teretibus, antheris conspicuis; ovario 

 glabro breviter atque conspicue stipitato, stylo modice longe glabro 

 manifeste excentrico. 



Prope Cunderdin, Western Australia. Leg. W. V. Fitzgerald. 

 Nov. 1907. 



Radix glabra, crassa, lignosa. Caules 3-5 unc. alt. Folia 

 5-7 lin. long. Spicae plerumque 9 lin. long. Bracteae bracteo- 

 Iseque 1| lin. long. Perianthii 4-5 lin. long, tubus vix | lin. 

 long. 



Allied to P. roseus F. Muell. ; differing in being glabrous, in 

 the shorter, simple flowering stems, very different foliage, shorter, 

 equal bracts and bracteoles, &c. The foliage approaches that of 

 P. ccespitosus F. Muell. , but the flowers widely diverge from those 

 of that species. 



