30 



A tree of 30ft. ; trunk to 10ft. ; diameter 9in. ; bark greyish 

 and rather rugose ; timber reddish and not very hard. 

 Also the variety concolor. 



162. S. Cunninghamii R. Br. 



From a long bushy shrub to a tree of 30ft. ; trunk 10ft.; 

 diameter 9in. ; bark greyish, smooth or slightly rough ; 

 timber reddish and rather tough ; flowers yellow or 

 greenish-yellow, full of nectar and of a sickly sweet odour. 

 Among sandstone quartzite rocks, frequently in their 

 crevices. In juvenile plants the leaves are bipinnate, 

 occasionally pinnate, with numerous linear mucronate 

 segments. 



163. Orevillea mimosoides B. Br. 



A tall shrub to a tree of 30ft. ; trunk to 12ft. ; diameter under 

 1ft. ; bark dark-coloured, rough and irregularly fissured ; 

 timber reddish, free-grained and rather hard ; leaves 

 ash-coloured, flowers yellowish-white. In the Flora Aus- 

 traliensis the following occurs in the description of this 

 species : — " Pedicels |— 1 inch." This should read 

 " Pedicels |-1 line." 



164. G. miniata (W.V.F.). n. sp. 



An erect, graceful looking shrub, the branches and branchlets 

 terete and along with the leaves invested with a short 

 close wliite-woolly or velvety tomentum, the young shoots 

 ferruginous ; leaves on stout petioles, ovate to almost 

 orbicular, obtuse or nearly truncate, the base cuneate, 

 much undulate and margined by conspicuous prickly 

 teeth, the midrib prominent, much reticulate between ; 

 flowers in dense seound reflexed axillary racemes, solitary 

 or occasionally several together, and then forming short 

 panicles ; peduncles, pedicels and rachises densely silky 

 villous ; perianth orange red, with a pinl< spotted throat ; 

 pubescent without, slightly bearded at the throat within, 

 the tube broad and oblique, much inflated and revolute 

 under the globular limb ; torvis very oblique ; gland con- 

 spicuous, horse-shoe shaped ; ovary glabrous, on a very 

 short glabrous stipes on the upper margin ; style hispid, 

 broad and compressed, longer than the perianth, the 

 stigmatic disc orbicular ; fruit ovate-globoso, smooth, 

 rounded at the summit, the persistent base of the style 

 lateral ; seeds oblong- ovate, edged with broad membranous 

 margins. 



Slopes of Mt. Leake, Lady Forrest Range (■\V.^^K.). Height 

 8-12ft. Leaves 2J-3Jins. long on petioles of Jin. 

 Racemes 2in. or less in length. Peduncles a^ffin. Pedi- 

 cels two lines long and slender. Perianths abo\-e three 

 lines long. Style 3 J lines long, the stigmatic disc 1| lines 

 in diameter. 



