74 Win is ArfJitioitt *& 1/Utorian $$$ MfafNfi [ v £*; ^J V 



S. T, Ulakc makes this comment concerning it (8/3/1948) 'I do not recall 

 liMv't'fi seen Mich kmg filaments in ScinVniri before.") 



16 RHYNCHOSPORA RUCOSA ffcWJ £ Cttfft 1944 JSvn fl etoutfri 

 Vahl. 18061. 



TawOitpa, on G. \. Tonkin's property (AV .4. Black, 30/4/ 1940. 



This collection constitutes the first record of the genus kh$U8bp&Jwii fox 

 Victoria, and oi)« suspects that the plant may have been introduced front 

 Xcw South Wales or farther north. It i:; a grass-like species, to 2 ft, high. 

 Willi a terminal inflorescence ot small Npskrlct? clustered in shoit irregular 

 corymb's Tndigenou? to Mvw South Wales and Queensland, ii |s &l«0 widely 

 dispersed in tropica) regions or the world. 



FLORA OP VICTORIA; HtV* $PtCtt$ AND OTHER AOOlTIONS— 9 



By N. A. VV.>Kcrnar>, Noble Park 



Genui GftEVILLEA: Two Undescrthed Species Hitherto 

 Included under G. illctfolio 



CHElstLLEA IVtVOrUyLl.A 5 ». nov-; On ymrniatc C itieifoime 8 Br.. 

 seil tohorum lohis dentate induntento s-pat'mj pcrt*jrtili uvano subscs-iUi 

 villoso Stylo bi'cvi (ctrciter 1 cm. lOitgQJ difFert. 



HOl.OTYPfc: Kang»*0O Fhll (near Bendigo ) I November 1934, A J. 

 'ladKuU (MKL; duplicate* to Ik sent to K and NSW'), 



Divaricate tdmib to «3 ft. high; leaves up to 7 cm. long and 5 cm. wide, 

 usually divided (often deeply) with (our main lateral lobes which arc 

 •dullowfy toothed u ith ■ tew pimgcul points, the venation conspicuously 

 reticulated, sparsely pubescent on berth surfaces with short very twisted 

 hair.s ; flowers secund in racemes I 5-2.5 cm. long, the pedicels about 1 tnni 

 long, the perianth about 5 mm. Iohr and densely pubescent on the outside, 

 the ovary subsesssile and densely villose, the style about ] cm. long 



Dtsti, tuition Endemic ill Victoria in the northern auriferous belt (Cast!c- 

 maine, Bcndtgo, Skipton and Upper Avoca aicas). 



C (frypphyltcs has hitherto been passed by as a form of C, i7u"ifo/<n. but :Se 

 latter species has a more cuncale leaf with the lobes :£ confined to the upper 

 hall ^^\<^ usually entire, the vesuture under-leal i£ dense and short, the flowers 

 arc stalked (with pedicels 15-2 mm. Ions) and invested with sparse vestiturc, 

 the ovary is st.pttate fwith an almost glabrous stalk 2-3 mm. lortu) and 

 invested with oppressed hair, and the style is about 17 mm. Iuiik 



GftE^lLLEA STEICLITZIANA sp. nov.; itf*m ex aJHmtate -G. iltaiotiar 

 R.Hr., sed foliorunt lobis dentatis induinento *f*ar40 Wfl^O flonbus 

 MibsessdibuK -ova no (stipitem incHnlens) villoso stylo basin vers' is 

 pubescent* rccedit 



HOLOTYPF: Ueathtamls near Geelong Reservoir. Brisbane Ranges Vit- 

 )0mi Sepi Wi 1°*I : %• P R. H. St John (MHt.). 



Divaricate shrub to 3 ft. hiph ; leaves up to 5 cm. Um« and 3 cm. wide. 

 usually shallow }y divided wilh 4 main lateral lobes which arc shallow ly 

 lonthed with ;t few pungent points, *enatioi) conspicuously reticulaterl. upper- 

 surhiccs becoming glabrous, underneath sparsely invested with long :£ straight 

 hair*; flowers svetrnd m racemes 2-3 cm, long, the pedicel* abou! I tfflfc, )oj\^, 

 the perianth about 6-7 mm. long ;im\ densely pubestenl on ihc outwdc. lha 

 ovary ^tipilate (stalk <?-3 mm long 1 ) and densely villotc the style 15-17 mm. 

 long and usually sparsely pubescent towards the base. 



• HE!. — NAttonAi H^fwrhftiUVf Vietoua. MeMvmrof K — Ko_»u WlAAId r»4'de«5, Kcw. 

 Fnifland; iVSVV - Nntionnl Hcrharium of \'<w South Wales, Sjdney 



