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424. Helicteres rhynohoearpa W.V.P. n. sp. 



Stems erect, mimerous, almost simple, from, a thick woody- 

 stock, densely stellate, tomentose ; leaves petiolate, 

 acuminate, often apiculate, margins flat, entire, green 

 above, pale beneath, shortly and densely tomentose on 

 both pages ; flowers in racemose-paniculate axillary cymes, 

 the peduncles and pedicels very short ; calyx obliquely 

 lobed to about one-third of its length, densely stellate- 

 tomentose, the lobes subacute, petals narrow-linear with 

 long slender claws, two slightly broader than the others, 

 glabrous without, pubescent within, with a thickened 

 woolly protuberance extending shortly upwards from the 

 base of the claw, with usually two short lateral teeth lower 

 down ; stamens 10, the filaments not long ; anthers very 

 small ; fruits stipitate, ovate-oblong, densely rusty- 

 stellate ; carpels straight, each with a slightly diverging 

 beak, usually 6-seeded ; seeds tuberculate. 



Synnott Range (W.V.F.). 



Height 3ft. Leaves 3-4in. long ; petioles 3-4 lines. Calyx 

 3 lines long. Petals 4 lines long, red. Fruits : stipes 

 2 lines, carpels 5 lines long, the beaks above IJ- lines in 

 length. Seeds dark-brown. Among sandstone and quartz- 

 ite boulders (W.V.F.). 



Affinity to H. incana Benth. 



425. Melochia pyramidalis L. 



King Sound District (Froggatt) ; May, Lennard, Fitzroy, 



Barker, Isdell, and Charnley Rivers (W.V.F.). 

 An erect bushy shrub of 2-4ft. ; flowers pink or red. 



426. Dicarpidium monoicum F. v. M. 



Mounts Behn, Herbert, Broome, Leake ; Bold Bluff ; Synnott, 

 Artesian, Edkins, and Harding Ranges (W.V.P.). 



Of straggling habit, the stems and branches wiry ; flowers 

 white or pink. Among sandstone and quartzite rooks. 



PARIETALES. 



ELATINACE^. 



427. Bergia perennis F. v. M. 



Sturt's Creek (F. v. M.) ; Lennard and Isdell Rivers (W.V.F.). 

 In sandy localities. 



FRANKENIACE^. 



428. Frankenia paucifiora DC. 



Decumbent and 6-9in. to erect and 2-3ft. ; flowers white 

 to pink. 



