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The Virionmt Ntfufvitsi <$ 



SUNDRY NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN STYLIDIA 



'including o tiew name for o tropical trigger-plon! I 



By J. H Whi in. 

 National Hrrlurii'tn of Virii>rU 

 11 :: I .1 iDUJM EKICKSOV*: A Vf* Wflfifii nomcu mtvum. 



[.A- androsuccuw O. Sdwnr* »n tt+ptfzt. Spec. \*au Re&n Kftf. -'/: 



105 (1^27), mm Lindl, In kihi'tirth's Uvh Kt& Z31 Appendi*. . ;.. V£# 



Swan River: xvix (1 Dec. l8Jy V, mv HC. P'octr. Svxt. U<fi ?*' 7*-> 



(Dec. serqs 1&39), J 



\s a Inter homonym, Olio Srhwarr's name Styhdium oitdrnspnmm mnsi 



lapse lor the m*_cts.saiy r,e\v epithet, T have the greatest pJeaKcre in hrstuwriis 



the surname of Mrs. Rica Rnckson (Bolgarl, \V A. )— my Incnd *»»d eol 



(ibor&Mff during so many researches in Ibe fail: tun ling fngger-pUn unvily. 



Mrs, Fjickyju'ii ^alienee, ^^iti'is for minute detail and #ieai artistic sSciil 



fctftve yonc- .i very (our May toward solving tba taxonomk problems coime'-tcd 



witls this ddhcult group , >lie has travelled ex'erttav<ly to study specie* in Ilv 



ftfcju over milch o»' AttsJTRlfa (inrhidir.g rhe tropic*), and everywhere ha* 



made careful colour sketches of t)ie Jiving plauU— working lowaul rt compfs;- 



henvve monograph al all Australian T*l££6Jrfr* which- '5 now neaniie 



completion. 



5". pntfaiNbTC is a delightful and very characteristic pcrc-mia?. I' has elms? 

 ailjtl *'N-<:evthit*jJy hirsute, vcrticillat^ rosettes f.V'-J" udde) ;>om the upycr- 

 7iiOsf e»f which ftnif M|i to 20 (bat usually less) ucct ooo fl<>wetwj. |t4liViiw 

 peduncles to ft" h>ijf«- ; the calyx lube is elongated the corolla TO»y pink inside 

 and Ungbl yellow ev'.emaliy. As far as we know at present, the Krxiies occurs 

 only with'n a jhofl distance of Port Vlar-win, Apparently the hrrd ipeeirnem 

 -were, found By M. HolUe along tin* Adelaide River in 1»H90 fun-named col- 

 lefitkpl id Melbourne Herbarium). P. A. K. Bleeser collected ;t at Koolphryah, 

 .W miles oast of IWwm ( on wet s*ndy flMs"), riming the L$?(Psj Ill's 

 materia} became the tyra of -5r, an-drosacetott O, Schwarz, Mr^. lirirksoit 

 lie»'5<H- obraniod gWCil SiWcHilg *_ sample-., on wliite aUfid r.at.v along '.he Sluart 

 ii-^ltrtay, 2l) miles iroin Oarv.ni (July )2, 1^5) ^ind rtlso sevctal I HI Its 

 tienif.' (lie town. 

 1 Kug^eit "Androsaec Tr»^:^p:ri>!;4iit" as an npr-vopriMt'.- vernacular ttnt:je, 



2. SrYUDiUM l^KOUPMCATUM /?. Br. Prodr. Flor, \ov. TToll. 563 

 (WLO). 

 = 5. piloswm fcflWff, \ T ov. TToll Planr Specim- 2. 6lv T.2l> f IW), 

 5n ihe Ptoifromn.i Uohen Brown recognizes both .S. fihisxtJU sort $ vrfn/i'i- 

 mfiou, the Litter prestinicd :o differ »n ns redupltCtite kawj ;md feiiDrlCT scape 

 •vilti t'tin-trl,o*didar hnirs. ] r A-1i](ibrdtc in his moiiunrMpI-. (jt\ ^tylidifffMfl 

 [Dos i J fhw»ni,cuh IV : 27%, Heft J5 : £0 (1VU8)1 fete a fuutnoie to :)ie 

 dericriptlon of 6' rcd^pltcatnm, viz.: 



St. {ni</ii>ttt Liilitll . . ia»i >iiK; specks cn iuonibus ci fib^cr'fu tone >u»i 



COili*'"^' 1 «*» c;ft<' i*.iso'iu-:r. 

 C A Gardner omit^ S pllotum from hi? Pifuvirralio (1930), 



Throughout the SfUld inlain cotiini'y around E^perance Bay, ifxlendmj 

 CsNte.Hy to beyond the Cape l.e Grand Reserve and also occurring on some 

 islands oi the Recherche ArcripeTayo, is. a lar.cje 1'riggcr-planr which varies 

 a good deal in width of leaves, rolling oi margins, flower colour and dcyrec 

 of development of glandular hairs Oower part of scape usually nou-g)andul3i l* 

 Th'i i am convinced is Die S. pi(ownt of Labiltardiere, fn/m which .V. rcrfufiti- 

 frtwm R, t\r v,m\ not be separated yteciiicallv, 1 sent maleiial from Sandv 

 Hoclc bland ( Kecherche ArrhipeU^o) ro Dr. R. PidVt-Sermolli for ccno- 

 panson with Labdlardiere'*; type .ar Klorenccs and he replic<i (29f i )/W52') ; 



