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The Viitoriun yaturalist 



A NEW TRIGGER. PLANT FROM THE NORTHERN TERRITORY 



By Rica Ericksok* and ). IL Wuust 



SI 'VI.IDIUM QUAPRIFURCATUM Ern-kson & HUlhs; 



species dQva (ijbK&wds Attdtricitifi', uHercnd*, ob fonriam corolla 

 6'. fisiihiftitu K. MuelF. et $ tyiwWff* F, MucH. *<+tc<J*c s*<l 

 ditTcn ah utroque statura parvtore. atque modo auctus (wapo 

 uitico>: .£. mm'ckoia fotia pauea infra irondem rosuJatnrn ((olio 

 quoquc 1*3 4^jtt. lato) JCTii c »us calyx usitale omm'no glaitdulo- 

 nUosus lobis obtusis duin petuJa (quanquam bifida) nou late 

 lurcata sunt; .9. fissifolmm folia dispcrsa parva lincaria bractt- 

 fot'rviia *oluin tert, eiu*. flos S. tiutsrwofn &rrmltiimis scd calycc 

 minus trJaodulo-piloso. 



.tmwn tircit«r 7 cjiv nhn. tfto*>ra, mulufloM, <nm*nto albido-hy.ilino infra frimdeai 

 msHlataui fo/io ore. 5, tVjsuUta (fttf bislrt cfliiU**, * s*<&ilia, laic ©vm», ore. J njJii 

 lory?*. §c&fru* unicu*. iflfW iftubfo rami* qui <ni«Ttfcrc intern* tncipunit, p; part;hus in* 

 Cctit/finus pullior. Calyr linearis, nd ftorlt.anem vix 10 mm. lon^iis mm! usque *<l I? tan), 

 prolueens, unvnino jjlatiti* pr*lpf plfortlfll p.'Hifonim (ffl.viHthml prope basin luUwuan: 

 tubi pfrhrtws, ftctrfi, coruni aUn&ua p&tie usque rtiJ apices cutmactj Loratlr rue /> mm. 

 Imm, prUluU, totalis permwMualititts*, uiN»* qpfUd ccOydv lv>* p*mlb lopfput', lpt«r pcula 

 Xrttcftorfc profundi Ua WiSMS JXtftt* *jimiia irgulnritf.r fciq fyrc^liu p.iri yptfrior* bifirfo 

 ccctto et tr tent em long'futPni* pctuloj OM aMi»r<.mt MVk uUUV^cttli, pdO p\>sU;riure titHilO 

 ls:e cxpamtanti crc. £ mm lonitri* faucn 3pp<ntriimL>r prtminiente*, saltan th:;t tVWiatJ" 

 vijnm), Ular, obhivx cl illis .?. tofrritfMJA* 1 vinults, sod ylap>1es inacpitialcs nbecPtcs; Ubcl- 

 firm rtiHiunini anifitstum (jlt^utltlVU&jUn Pi sm))-tF ;)c tiil»l cmollti' \ii:r;i ior'Kiinim atlticMni 

 Calum»a RratiiU, coroll:i circ. ;equilyiiHa. 



A small sUbrou* |.lam, ahoin 7 cm tffelv with numerous fJowers and a 

 tnnuparent whitish caul sheathing the stock below the ba*at rosette of leaver. 



Lcovrx about 5, dark yrc-cn, rosulatc at b;i>e ol stem, more or leis K's- 

 Ktlr. broadly tJv^K*,, about 3 rHtr?, long Stapt' iiatfb?, H'ith ]HH)ie;oL>i bra>icbcs 

 spreading from lather low on the scape, darker in (he lower parts, with 

 minute narrow bracrs subtending the branches and ha<e5- r.-l the rlowers. 

 Cofy,\- linear, scarcely 1 coi. at rime of rtcwftrlllg, but kngtlienipg later ro 

 12 mm. ; lobes very short, pointMl, two of them connate alnu^st to the apices, 

 K'iabrous thtoui-hout c.sc^pt r'or a Jew gUndu'ar hairs near ll-e oaics ui the 

 lobe?. CoroJlti about 6 mm, wide, pale, with vef,v mieciusi petals ; tube a little 

 longer than the calyx lohes, mure deeply iuci*od bftw^en the anterior petal*. 

 l J cl(it,i all regularly and widely forked, anterior p;nr bii'id, erects ksi than 

 a third the length of the other petals; posterior pair bifid, abmu S mm. long, 

 spreading broadly. Throat &ppenda<irs prominent, at JeaM 2 ('as far as seen), 

 broad, obtuse and nnufar to tho.'-e of S. SchizitttthUm: btlt no margitial glands 

 present, Labfthm situated on the outer wtdl of the corolla tube below the 

 incifiion, minute, narrow and pointed- Cvluwn slender, about as long as the 

 corolla. 



fzfttfhct ; In ath'yion to the tour broadly forked petals 



V&KMw&Hltylh*' Four-prong Tri^ger-pl^nt, 



h'lihitnt On low-lying u-et gTound near water -course*. 



Ri'piwutatwr /aratitics: NOKTI-IEUN 1 'ERUITOIIY — Pine Creek 

 (HOLO"i'Yt 3 E in MEL— J, fi. fthtfwm AfiK )^J4. ex Herb. F- \f 

 Reader) ; "South to tributaries of MtKiulev Rivpr" (MEL ai\4 K — /?. Tate. 



Xo. as; ?]882), 



The new species it close to 5. pssiloiitwt F. Mnell. and .S*. wjuacolti F. 

 \luell. (of the tropical bub£eous AH<?F?fti*ifo) hi tbe fofn-j of its corolla, but 

 dn'fcrs it) hwbit of growth — with stn^te, short, nmeb-brauched scajie. These 



J • Fcu-lra". Holgan, W. A»st, 



f Nabor.Ji H^rharmm d Victoria, S, Varrn, Vic. 



