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the lobes exserted and divaricate, stigmas truncate; fruit 

 ovoid, obtuse, indistinctly four-ribbed, usually consisting 

 of four one-seeded not veiv hard pyrenes. 



Mt. Marmion (W.V.F.). 



Pleight lo 40ft.; trunk 10ft., diameter 9-12in. Bark greyish, 

 smooth. Timber pale-yellow and moderately hard. Leaves 

 3-5in. long, thin, bright-green. Calyx J line long. Corolla 

 2 lines long, yellow, Fruit IJ line diameter, scarlet. In 

 iron-stone .uravel. 



Affinity to E. saligna R. Br. 



534. Tourneforlia mollis F. v M. 



Montague Sound (A. Cunn.) ; Goose Hill, near Ord River 



( W.V.F. ). 

 An erect shrub, 8ft. high ; flowers and fruits white. 



535. Coldenia proeumbens L. 



Ord and King Rivers (W.V.F.). 

 In moist sandy spots. 



536. Heliotropium ovalifolium Forskael. 



A perennial with a thick woody stock; stems diffuse or spread- 

 ing and attaining a height or length of 1ft. ; the whole often 

 as much across; flowers white. The species is always 

 braeteate in North West Australia and not ebracteate as 

 described in the Flora Australiensis. 



537. //. flaviflorum (W.V.F.), n. sp. 



A slender erect much-branched shrubby plant, glabrous except- 

 ing the flowers; leaves shortly petiolate, linear, subacute 

 or acute, the margins entire and closely refracted; flowers 

 distant in one-sided simple or once-forked racemes terminat- 

 ing the branchlets; bracts setaceous and deciduous, occa- 

 sionally none; calyx moderate, the outer segments ovate, 

 the inner much narrower, all acute and ciliolate; corolla 

 yellow, scantily invested without with closely appressed 

 scabrid hairs, the tube ventricose about the middle and 

 densely barbellate within, nearly twice as long as the calyx, 

 lobes narrow-ovate, obtuse, a little more than half as long 

 as the tube ; anthers acuminate, cohering by their tips ; 

 style comparatively stout, at least four times as long as the 

 obscurely f our-lobed stigma ; central cone small and obtuse ; 

 fruit almost mitriform, crowned by the persistent base of 

 the style, the nuts, four, glabrous and shining. 



Paekhorse Range; Mt. Rason; near Mt. Marmion (W.V.F.). 



Height 2-3ft. Leaves lin. or less in lengih. Calyx 1 line long. 

 Corolla under 2 lines long. Fruit | line diameter. Seed' 

 almost black. In dry sandy soil. 



Affinity to H. paniculatum R. Br. 



