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496. Mitrasacme lepidocalyx (W.V.F.), n. sp. 



An erect, slender-stemmed annual, glabrous in every part, dicho- 

 tomously branched from about the middle ; leaves all radical 

 and rosulate, ol)lanceolate, 1-nerved; bracts subtending the 

 branches, branclilets and intlorescence in solitary pairs, 

 connate or free, ovate, obtuse, flowers pedicellate, small, 

 4 or more (ogether in simple umbels, the whole inflorescence 

 forming a rather large dichotomous panicle, with 1-2 flowers 

 in the forks; pedicels filiform; calyx-tube with 5 promi- 

 nent dark-coloured ribs which terminate in extremely short 

 broad obtuse lobes, the spaces between the ribs closely in- 

 vested with small white scales; corolla slender, the lobes 

 lanceolate, obtuse, scarcely as long as the tube; filaments 

 inserted abo"\'e the middle of the tube; anthers narrow- 

 oblong, conspicuously exserted; style much exserted, with 

 2 rather short oblong linear stigmatio lobes ; capsule shortly 

 exceeding the calyx, ovoid-oblong, acute. 



i\ressmate Creek, Packhorse Range (W.^'.P.). 



Height 6-12in. Leaves J-lin. long. Bracts :l-f line long. 

 Calyx ^-| line long. Corolla 1}-1| line long, white. 

 In wet sandy soil. 



Affinity to M. exserta F. v M. 



497. 21. hispida (W.V.F.), n. sp. 



An erect weak branching annual, the stems, branches and in- 

 florescence hispid with short spreading white hairs; leaves 

 on the lower portion of the stem, the radical ones withering 

 before the flowering commences, the uppermost 2 pairs 

 approximated so as to form a false whorl at the base of 

 the branches, of thin texture, lanceolate-ovate, obtuse or 

 slightly mucronate, trinerved, glabrous above, beneath the 

 ner\-es alone hispid; bracts small, linear; flowers in simple 

 or compound few-flowered umbels, often nodding on fili- 

 form pedicels; calyx-lobes deltoid, acute trinerved, as long 

 as the tube; corolla campanulate, glabrous or scantily 

 bearded within, the lobes very short ; filaments inserted near 

 the base of the tube; anthers ovate, usually semi-exserted ; 

 style soon separating at the base, shortly exserted, stigmatic 

 lobes short, rather thick and slightly divaricate; capsule 

 globular, scarcely exceeding the calyx, the persistent styles 

 connivent in the upper portion. 



Lennard and Isdell Ri^'ers; Bell Creek; eastern base of Jit. 

 Rason (W.Y.F.). 



Height 6-12in. Leaves usually under lin. long. Calyx f-line 

 or less in length. Corolla seldom above 3 lines long, yellow. 

 In moist grassy spots. 



Affinity to M. lutea F.v M.. 



