JB53 J W.AKrriTXt) I'?*n* of jWftyrfc Win Spews. c;r. ]6a 



P. tilMpbyifa *ar ontccno DC, {Prod, i: lit) <s evidently based on one oi 

 Siebcr's. duplicate*, or" tb? same :>pecie$. 



Botft Stendel (Ncmot. hot., eV. *': 4I&) and Bemltam (Pf AtufU, 2. 113) 

 u*ed Sirber** specific name in synonymy, lint a Ii33 apparently not hulietO' 

 been validly published as a. s)*cics. 



Lmv, sparse shrub; branchlcts shortly vdtase ; leave* l>mNK-nUnti£. abopl 

 6-12 nun. Inng. and 2-4 mm. wide, glabrous al»ove. margins recurred, aprv 

 short and recurved, underneath *parselv villose; flowers in terminal hracteate 

 clusters; bracts orbicular, equally pubescent, 3-lobcd tthe cejiual lobe 

 vdlo*e). reddish-brown, persistent; calyx pubescent : bractecles high K a ihe 

 calyx-tube, filiform, villose. 



DtsTrihtUuiii I South-eastern New South Wales and eanetn Victoria. AjI 

 well 3s .Siebcr's specimen* irom Hie Port Jackson area, there are in the 

 Melbourne National Herbarium collections of P. awoata irom Ha/elbro"k. 

 Braidwood, Wagong* and Twofold Bay — all in New South Wales The 

 species was apparently JJfst collected in Victoria by C. £L Grove, ai Orhost, 

 nboul sixty vears ago (Melbourne Teachers' College Herbarium); and Inter 

 at Welshpool Ujo. A, K Cameron. 27/7/194$), at Caw! River (N.A.W. 

 Nos. 3M0 and .1497; about 1946/47) and Upper Genoa kivcr (N.A.W. No. 

 .1189, 25/9/194$). 



P. (tMiectia \i similar to P. Hitc^hyih Schfad ; but the laUer lias longer, 

 narrower leave* 0*2 cm. long, 1-2 mm. wide) which are pubescent on their 

 upper surfaces, ami Us bracts are oblonp. blackish and more coarsely pube- 

 scent. It has <K>t been possible for the writer to consult either type material 

 or the original description of P. linaphyttii; but it is assumed rhar Smith's 

 interpretation of the specie* Ua 7f;nu. Lain. &$$. 9: 2A?) is correct. 



Both these specie? are quite distinct from P. nuitsti, the last having fclabron- 

 Icaves with the apex broad and truncated and the midrib never recurved. The 

 allied P. strirfa has the lea* obnvate and with fi strong recurved apex, while 

 the inner bracts ("and those of P witi-ia also) are entire and fall early letting 

 the flower.'. loose, 



Genu* SPY INDIUM; Two New $p«efe* 



SPVMDfUM ClXliKEUM s\>. nov.; S. trtpyttatft (Reiss.) F, Muell. 

 ajfims. seel differt foliorum apinbus lationbu?, fulioruni lobis later- 

 ahbus obtusis (sine apice inclnrato), lobo medio ± recto fnon vaJde 

 rccurvatoL pilis stellatis in superncie (nou simplis), ovario villoso 

 (mm hwiter pubescenti). 



HOLOTYPE: Coastal heathlands near Mallacoou aerodrome, far-eastern 

 Victoria* N, A, Wakefield No. 4334; 24/1/1957 (MEL; duplicates to be 

 -cut tuKaud NSW J. 



Dwarf shrub 5-50 cm. high : leaves obcordale Up to & mm. long and 

 ,S mm. wide T apex with Large entire lateral lobes and a ania.ll ^straight acute 

 central lobe, niargitis strongly recurved, upper-sortaces densely stellate- 

 tomencosc, undcr-surfaces with looser lumentum and penni-costate; iurloces- 

 cence terminal, eyrnoae; floral leaves (ehy-\vhtte. mostly similar to the stem- 

 leaves but a few sometimes tsmall and entire; calyx, and ovary densely villuse 



Distribution: Victoria (Mallacoofa and Grampians). 



S. eittcrfuw was first collertcd by Mueller, in September 18b0, in the 

 type locafity, and was. identified as S, i&fl%4mii&i (vkU "bvittrauct of the 

 Genoa River, K. Mueller", in Pi. -4i«f. > ; 4Z?)i Other botanists have gathered 

 it since at the same place, for it is very abundant there: and '-juitc recently 

 it wa s found in western Victoria (Flats K.E. of Grampians, Jan. 1937, Us. 



