>\b™»* ] Wiu.t*. fhra .►/ VUioth fflfrf Jtottfl Australia 351 



the petHcal as usual, Bkek (I.e.) further <li<Veieiuiate?s his new variety ^V 



^D^i lying fruits 20-25 mm. ul length, ns against 17-20 mm. in the typical 

 hairy- floweret! plane. .Such a distinction, however, cairnol be upheld, becauic 

 fruits of the latter iorm frequently stair JO and even 3a nm» — a* noted in 

 material at the Melbourne Herbarium The type of car. glahnfara sbowsa 

 maximum leaf-length of 5 cm., wheieas leaves on the single Victorian 

 "Malice'' collection range to 1 rni. Fret|Hnitly hot Hot always var viiJdta 

 i*hihiu a distinctly curved or even uncinate spine at tne leaf-tip, but all 

 specimens ot var. ghhnflora (known at present) have pungent paints that aic 

 quits straight. Length, thickness, Bind curvature for not) of aj>kal soine, in 

 the leaves of hairy -nowrred var. ciHnU- itself Vary sstoni&hin^ly; 2 stout 

 funn from the South Australian "Murray scrub" (ftfft F". Mueller, abonl 

 1850) l>as many leaves [hat are only 2,5 cm long <T') but 2 mm, »n dj>mcrer. 

 [jfitf Jean Cralbraith, Hufcra 7>itt<ita, "Black** and '•While" in Viet. Nat. 66: 

 m {Jan, 1!>50)J, 



£ant«Fo<cx 



LXOC/IKPQS L6PTQMP.R?01D£S Jr, Mattl- ,u- Miq, in Vederl. Kniidk. 

 Arch. 4: 019 (JB56). 



£, Q^hyHa Mrnth. F*JSm 4osf ft ">jfl (IRHi pro parr*, Eurart (1930) cl 

 *l. mo X ]?:. 



The true identity of R. Brown's Ilxorurpos apSyttn has for long been io 

 douht, Bentham's description under tins name covets two ojtite di&thKt tapf* 

 less plants; (1) a -dense bush 2-6 it- high, with stout thick (to 4 mm.) 

 uitim^r 1 branches 1 narrowly grooved between the numerous, close-;*!. 

 broadish, fattened ndges), crowded inflorescences mid almost globoid, smooth 

 trim minutely pubescent) fruits which at maturity surmount very broadly 

 svcollen, brvght-red fleshy s-talks ; (2) a small divaricate tree, usually h-32 M. 

 hi^b. with more slender branches t widely grooved and Witli rather Itwcr, 

 more acme in tei veiling ridges I and pyramidal, persist colly whhe-hairy, 

 manifestly furrowed fruits (to 5 mm. lonpr) with conspicuous flattened and 

 swolku HigMauc annum* at the >tmirmt (the llesh.v Ml(S being father 

 incjiHi'icvousJ, 



The writer forwarded material of both entities to the British Museum 

 {Nat IIis« ) for can:fu1 comparison with type EL fipIrylU*, and Mr J 1 ; M. 

 Csrron of that institution very kindly advised (U/.VI956j that, although ihe 

 Browman type is without fruit, its stem striatums closely match those of the 

 first plant briefly described above, viz, the atual] stoutly branched bush with 

 smooth globoid fruits (my specimen from Streaky Rav, S. .Mist. — lesc- A. J* 

 Hicks, Dec. 1"53L This ineam that true Ex near pas apltytUi is restricted 10 

 ncar-oaMal, rather and tracts of Sottib and Western Australia, extending 

 irom Vorke i'euinsula across Kyre Peninfiula fa^ far north as Warramboo) 

 and with isolated occurrences in the western State (eg, between Eipeianrc 

 and firasspstch). 



The different, larger, eistvrn plant, umil now kitovtii as B* ophyifa in 

 Victoria^ leqnirei- another name and the |»o;5ibihtics were It. dasystachys 

 Schlecht-cndal < 1847) and E. tcp1omcrh*t<l?A t r . Muell.tr Miy. M9S0J- both 

 cittxl as synonyms <st B. aphytlo l>y Bentliaui (t,c\)- Kerr K. Werner com- 

 municated bis opinion i_ 29/6/1956) lint rhc t>'|»r of £. (in\\\\'f<ichys in 

 Schle.chteml.irs herlwrtum <at Ualle. Cjermany) is identical with £. ft'^Wt'- 

 forms Labill— a very dilterem BpedM from B fiphyffa. On the other band, 

 a ftaptoiypC ^jieeimcn (""'Murray J?rruh"> of H. Icploiti/'rfoidex in Xfelbourne 

 Herbarium conforms well in stem si nations, to the Victorian Mallet tree 

 with pyramid."*! fU1 rowed frtnr*, <wr1 ll i=; toy upiniun that this name imtst 

 rej/iace that pf*7i. ophyitn" In Ihe flou; uf NMctoria, New Sooth Walrs and 

 QiteensJand ; both gpectes, however, occur in South Australia, 



