NEW AND RAEE WEST AUSTRALIAN PLANTS 277 



dula hippocrepiformi, stigmatis disco obliquo, ovario stipitato 

 villoso, folliculo glabro. 



Leaves very narrow linear, flattened, silky tomentose, slightly 

 contracted and rounded at base but broader over insertion, acutely 

 pointed and almost pungent, striate with three veins on upper 

 surface besides the nerve-like margins, on under side midrib very 

 broad and crowding out the lateral veins, maximum length 9 cm., 

 breadth about 1 mm, 



Eacemes cylindrical, pedunculate in axils of uppermost leaves, 

 forming a leafy panicle, maximum length 6 cm., breadth 2-5 cm.; 

 peduncles rusty tomentose, from 1 cm. to about 4 cm. long, rhachis 

 densely and softly villous. Pedicels slender, villous, 4-6 mm. 

 long, perianth-tube narrow throughout, much revolute under the 

 limb, villous externally, glabrous inside, 7 mm. in length, the 

 upper segments much shorter than the lower, limb globular, about 

 1*5 mm. diam., densely covered with long silky hairs. Torus 

 oblique, large, gland horseshoe-shaped, ovary on a short tomentose 

 stipes close to upper edge of torus, hidden under a dense silky 

 pubescence. Pistil 12 mm. long, style about 9 mm., loosely villous 

 chiefly on back, stigmatic disc oval, very oblique, or lateral with 

 an undulating free margin all round, and convex in centre. Fruit 

 globose, oblique, on pedicels of 5 mm., surface even, hoary villous, 

 becoming blackish with age, about 2 cm. diam. ; valves with hard 

 and crustaceous walls 1 mm. or rather more in thickness, opening 

 freely along upper suture and splitting readily on shorter lower 

 side. Seeds orbicular plano-convex chocolate-brown discs, 4 mm. 

 thick and about 1-5 cm. diam., including a wing about 2 mm. 

 broad all round margin. 



Kununoppin, 130 miles east by north from Perth, October ; 

 F. E. Victor. 



A hoary free-flowering shrub of 6-8 ft., branching from 12-18 in. 

 above ground. 



If the position of this plant in the genus Grevillea were to be 

 decided by its possession of some of the less common character- 

 istics of the flowers, its villous style and- stipitate as well as villous 

 ovary, with lateral stigmatic disc, would bring it into sect. 7, 

 Eriostylis, of which these are the most striking features. Its 

 panicled racemes with acicular leaves suggest sections Cycladenia 

 and Cyclojotera, or G. i^olybotrya and nematophylla in Conogyne ; 

 but it has little in common with these in the details of structure 

 of the flowers. It has the villous ovary and lateral disc of 

 Ptychocarjpa and Plagiojjoda, and also an oblique torus as in the 

 latter ; yet its nearest affinity is probably to sect. 4, Calotliyrsiis, 

 in which a number of forms are grouped, showing an oblique 

 torus, stipitate ovary, and oblique stigmatic disc, many having 

 also a panicle of cylindrical racemes. 



Grevillea simulans, n. sp. Arbuscula foliis brevipetiolatis 

 integris anguste linearibus vel filiformibus apice breviter acumi- 

 natis acumine uncinato, racemis elongatis cylindricis paniculam 

 terminalem formantibus, perianthio infra limbum depresse glo- 

 bosum recurvo, toro recto, glandula incompleta, ovario breviter 



