FC M,7- flr> l WIUW. i'torti Of Vktorui owi Svuth Auxtrtrfiu 1.W 



LOCUS: VICTORfA f hnreali-ocddentalis remola<— \Vlerid"ai! Road about 

 Ui miles south of Benetook" (HOLOTVPUS ju Hcr»> M£|* MJM* 

 WrUS In NSW— £. Raman I Jtf. 1950) j '9w(C war Miltlwa 

 iron-links'* (MEL— £. flfttWMjf, 21 Mar. 1950). 

 The new species seem? most closely related 10 Pn&sfo /»yiJ».w>ri-/(? Eft 

 Xfticll ) R. H. Anderson, which is fairly common in Hoc same region. It Ira* 

 x similar s^uat fruilinjj-pertanth with hollowed base, horizontal seed and 

 (used spines, which form a horizontal wing -like sJo?k ! hUl t"- r DcriMU) i; 

 hairy and without vtMical whirs (rj. ftUhrmts and narrowly 5- winged in 

 ti. i?T(uiiyf'frr t i) «mu \hr unequal flattened spines protrude far beyond thCK 

 irregularly "used bases ( cf • & small equal spme-lceth to Lbe pcuUigOHat *^d 

 quite horizontal disk or wing, of B btechypffipb)* ft. rautsaytr is also a more 

 vpnitht plant than #. b*yirh\;pUra and its leaves, although vdlose. wnh 

 appre^sed hairs, lack the (jwig interwoven arachnoid hairs ho characteristic 

 of the fatter species, iJ. rosm'd R. H. Anderson (iron: Central Australia! and 

 B.<±ctttjt/>f'$i?0' F, Afuell. show an approach in the configuration of their tithed 

 Jrtiiting-pe-riauths, with 5-6 spines; but i»e periaittli or Wffc Utter is mfhfjut 

 an excava'led base (il usually has 1 or 2 hardened decurved basal lobe* or 

 flaps) §tf*d fo ?wH (s vertical or almost so, while the spines In both are com- 

 paratively longer and neither flattened nor webbed with * connecting v tug 

 as in D, rawMtycr, Jn many fruit* sectioned, the seed was found to be 

 abortive i minute and shrivelled up). 



The sparine, epithet ^ a tribute to -Mrs. E. Kamray ol Ked Cliffs, whose 

 energy and hieb ettUiustfl. : in have been responsible "for the discovery of this 

 and several now specks in her district, also for other important additiutiu to 

 i>ur Victorian Malite flora, tluiiujj the past decade. 



BASS1A CAPUT-CASUARIT R U. With*. 



speiir*. nuva oh farjeui nerianthu -fnictiferi clistinctissima : /ueffruti- 

 i-ttlus decunthens. inultn-nmosus: rami * glabrcscentcs.; folia crasta. 

 U'Tctut, aipiejc >>utiobtusji, £irc|tcr 4-7 -t I itiui., leniter pilo^a ; flows 

 numerosi, in Ekfcillfc iolitat'ii; prnrtntftiiott- friwtitcruw (imacum spinis) 

 rircitcr --.5 nud. Ionium ft. latum, paulum complaitatum. in kmjjitu- 

 dinem phui coautum, minute et H»ar*e pubefCcnSv tUbo cadtfotmi 

 1.5-2.5 mm. longo (a base 0.5-1 mm. tenus cxcavato.i, spinis 2 valde 

 divancatia quorum una vtntto ttthcr (I unit, tenus) latetaliter cow- 

 idan.na suhnhtus&tiue (.^jsina tettin minma s^|ie adesi) ; (ftum ah«ir- 

 tfvum in iructu, hoTUontaJe, 



LOCUS'. VICTORIA (borcnli-OLCidemaJb ren»ota>— 'Mrridian Koad, about 

 5-6 miles south «rf Bi'nctciok" [HOLOTYPVS in Herb. MFL, P IfcA- 

 TYH iu AD, NSW, BR1, CANB, K E. Ro-msay. 1 Jul, 10501 



The .?nenfic epithet C'casnowary's head^) was chosen in allusion to the 

 <uri0U3 shspe oi the rruiltnfi-fjenaulli, which has no parallel among oihKt 

 Anstralian tr^eics of Biutxta; in form it also somewhat rescn>lt|c* ft miniature 

 lea-j>ot i*/C waierine-C3n. At maturity the fruiting structure is lnrrcl-shai>eil, 

 mure or less flattened* finely pubescent, v-criicaHy nbbeij and prcdncef 4 into 

 two very unequal appendage-* — rhc- shorter one acirulat. ilie other murh 

 broader Uterally-flatlcued and obtuse, with '.he aspect •*>£ a ^houlrler-hke 

 cxlcOMiiu Ajr high d>yinitietrjt htsfll|> lo one 5tde ot Llic pcTiantli lube which 

 is matufeitiy^excavated at l\\ base. A third \*ei> suiall Spflte »s oMcji presenl 

 hetwveu lite two major excrescences. 



In its larger hollowed appendage, the yerianOt ofi B- capttt-cas'tarit bears 

 autakbig reietnlddiKx to that of 8ahbtwu\ <u-yoput<\ P. Mttell var, rf^t?»tttiflE 

 Ji M. Btaek- a smaller ^Jabiotu plant occurritiK in the same, rvgirm — , but the 

 latter is entirely spineless. In view of the (act that seeds on the type specimens, 

 of the new Bassiu are totally abortive, ir tray perhaps represent a natural 



