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colour, tough and elastic, the light-coloured sapwood very scanty. 
Branchlets, young growth, and underside of foliage more or less densely 
clothed with a hoary or rusty tomentum. Leaves coriaceous, broadly 
close and capo and with the smaller reticulations prominent. on the 
upper f Calyx-segments 4, about 3 lines long, o phge gaat) 
2 outer ones silky-hairy on the ae side, 2 inner ones with 
poh margins, the cen or or part exposed in the mae sky ike fe 
ter segments, all glabrous on the inner face. Corolla glabrous, 
pag slightly exceeding te calyx, the 4 blunt ee shorter than 
the tube. Satie 4, oo in the centre of and in a line with the 
S Musgrave E. T. Station, Caps York Peninsula, Geo. Jacobson. The 
flowers are described from a few which were found at the base of the fruits, and 
se ese latte b ter were also immature, and in all examined tke seeds had been des troyed 
ub. 
eis dedicated = the oe the agent in Beg nim hay 
of ba hsp: point to botany a request, urgin nthe men stationed on 
Cape eninsula Blectrie Telegraph fine 7: lobality > little known to 
tanists) the desirability of their collecting specimens o e indigenous plants as 
Pips might ae found in bloom or fruit, and forwarding the same to my office. That 
® suggestion has already borne fruit will be seen from my recent publications, 
: which are descriptions of several new plants received from Mr. Geo. Jacobson, 
a I am indebted for the specimens from which the present species is 
Order CONVOLVULACEZ. 
CALYSTEGIA, R. 
c. “oa ara Linn., Sp. Pl. 226; Benth. in Fl. Austr. iv. 431, 
® named from the resemblance of the a hoa to those of the 
Peduncles |. flowered, abodt as lie as the leaves. Bracts 
My ovate- cordate, very obtuse, rather shorter than the calyx. 
Sepals nearly 3-in. long, broad and thin, all yery obtuse or the inner 
Amost 
counirieg 
9 acute. Corolla pink or purplish. Ovary ‘nasiieltal 
“celled, surrounded by a cup- ira disk, Stigmatic lobes ovate or 
“long, oS are 1-celled.— Benth. L.c. 
: On the perid aa “ete Head, J. F. Shirley. 
nt, so com the sea-coast of the southern colonies and other 
has not fiteviouily Deal observed & in Queensland. 
Order MYOPORINEA,. 
PHOLIDIA, R. Br. 
ie talina, Fv. U.; Benth., Fi. Austr. v.15; 
, Fo Te. v. M., 
rinous Plants. An erect clabrous bth of several iF slightly 
ular-verrucose. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, entire, GL or 
Mtoe tather long petiole, rather thick, 1} to 2 in. long. Flowers 
