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slender spikes; bracts ovate, acumiiiate, conspicuously cili- 

 ate, at least half as long as the ilowers; braeteoles narrower 

 but m other respects similar; calyx-lobes sinuate or almost 

 obsolete; corolla densely pubescent without, the throat and 

 tube within closely white bristly hairy; o^ary one-celled, 

 two-ovulate ; style and indusium glabrous, the latter scantily 

 ciliiite; fruit oblong-ovate, tuberculate, one-seeded. 



Near Isdell River, between Isdell Range and Grace's Knob 

 (W.Y.F.). 



Plant 1ft. high, and at least once and a half as much across. 

 Leax'es 4-C lines long. Corolla three lines long, white. Fruit 

 about 14 lines long. 



Grows on grassy black soil plains. 



Aflinitv to'S. scabrida (W.V.F.). 



1)43. jS'. deeipiens W.Y.F., n. sp. 



A much-branched diffuse hispid perennial ; leaves obovate to 

 cuneate, conspicuously toothed, sessile or very shortly peti- 

 olate, the floral ones similar but smaller; flowers sessile, in 

 short leafy s]'ikes; braeteoles linear-lanceolate, at least one- 

 third as long as the corolla; calyx-lobes small, broadly 

 o\-ate ; corolla pubescent without, within up to near the base 

 of the lobes densely bristly hairy; anthers inappendiculate ; 

 ovary two-celled; style hairy; indusium with a dense tuft 

 of long i)ur] lish hairs, on the base at the back longer than 

 the indusium itself, the margins densely white ciliate; fruit 

 ovoid-oblong, shortly hirsute and tuberculate. 



Port Hed'and (W.Y.F.)'. 



Height 4-6in. Leaves i-Jin. rarely |in. long. Corolla about 

 five lines long, whitish streaked Avith purple. Fruit two 

 lines long. In sandy soU. 



Affinity to ,S'. humilis R. Br. 



644. Dampiera conospermoides W.Y.F., n. sp. 



A s]3reading shrub, with stems, branches, underside of leaves 

 and inflorescence denselj' white-stellate-tomentose; branches 

 terete; leaves oblong to broad-lanceolate, obtuse tapering 

 into the petioles, firm, entire, or the margins bordered by 

 a few distant teeth, flat, at flrst stellate-tomentose above, 

 becoming glabrous with age; flowers almost or quite sessile, 

 2-3 together, occasionally solitary, subtended by small ovate, 

 obtuse bracts, on the long slender branches of a some- 

 what pyramidal panicle; braeteoles minute; calyx densely 

 invested with white branched hairs, the lobes small and 

 linear; corolla densely white tomentose without, the lower 

 lobes linear-lanceolate, obtuse, pale-coloured, the upper ones 

 ovate and shorter, the auricles comparatively large and of 



