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A REVIEW OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES SPECIES 

 OF HALORRHAGACE^E AS DESCRIBED IN PROF. 

 A. K. SCHINDLER'S MONOGRAPH (1905); WITH 

 THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES. 



By J. H. Maiden and E. Betche. 



In Prof. Anton K. Schindler's Monograph of Balorrhagacece, 

 written for Engler's ' Pflanzenreich,' 23 Heft(iv. 225), December, 

 1905, the following new species are described for New South 

 Wales : — 



Halorrhagis tenuis Schindler, I.e. p. 2 7. Quirindi, William Mac- 

 donald, November, 1903. Nearest allied to H. elata A. Cunn., 

 and chiefly distinguished from it by the glabrous ovarium. In 

 habit it is a more slender and more branched plant, with thin 

 branches and sparse narrow leaves, almost entire, or the lower 

 ones with a few short teeth. 



Halorrhagis villosa Schindler, I.e. p.31. Jenolan Caves, W. F. 

 Blakely, January, 1900. This species is, in appearance, very 

 much like a straggling form of H. serra Brongn., with villous 

 branches, but in affinity it is nearest to H. tetragyna (Labill.) 

 Hook. f. It belongs to Prof. Schindler's section Monanthus (a 

 single flower in the axils of the floral-leaves or bracts), while 

 H. serra belongs to the second section Pleianthus (several flowers 

 in the axils of the bracts). From H. tetragyna it is easily distin- 

 guished by the tall straggling habit and by the hairy calyx. 



Halorrhagis longifolia Schindler, I.e. p. 35. N. S. Wales, on 

 steep hills of Leuwin's Land* (Bauer); Port Jackson (Andersonf ); 



* Leuwin's Land " is not in New South Wales, but in the extreme sonth-west 

 of Western Australia, 

 t Probably James Anderson, Botanic Gardens, Sydney, circa 1830-40. 

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