IW Wi..it5, AtiM iff iHcivm and Sam A#gpv!fo Vvl\ h n 



?'.. HJf.l KfiRA,\'nif—Shrnb (.mil, imtctnnScni, j£ ft 'ugh. Uif.ortsct<!(V r.->r 

 cxccedJMK the la hi leaves. iftfJ'f.* lei* pPttti 1 cm. Utttti 3 

 ttntlu a* iBUg iis broad of less, vM&tij?-oh&.wneijtc ot tfftM tor- 

 elate, brci.ii It *.t »t ba?<\ usually — pcafctritl", n; urging Ant'.r* 

 and r.ln'iiys rcvolme. Anthcft Mil. Cotci of fruii jmMxki?, witli 

 lateral boaks ,in<H ^tainincut MtSQ£J concentric vemj. 



True PhcWuon biloburtt (type from Mt William m the Victorian Cram- 

 piunO extend? across Bag* Strait hlamls to eastern Tasmania, but does n&l 

 occur anywhere in South Australia; there, its place is taken by xhc related 

 htn smaller /•' hilUl»-f,tiidti which is svctircTdly endemic and uncomuicn n 

 i*hc Mi Lofty and Btartt&a Ranges — a)one nxky w^ter-coursc? JKrtwren Mt. 

 Lofty proper and Tanunda. The epithet honours the [feme oi I*)r Wilhclrvt 

 Killtbckikli a inend ot Baron von Mueller during hi* early residence in 

 Adelaide. 



PHEBAUUM LOWANtiKSE J. f;\ IVUiii, 



species, nova ad P. natlii (F. Mueil.) Maiden & Bclcbe [Novae Cam- 

 brise Austiabs & Queenilatuhie] et F, htbtrcntcsnm (F, MttclL} ffenth 

 [Australia? Occidental^] cvidentor proxime accede-ns, sed a priore 

 differ* $tatura parva (baud ISO em.), foliis mmoribus semper arte 

 ret'olut'S (nuuquam plant* ) t perianth io multo WltiOre I'nnnquatv 

 6-9 nun.) ahjuc petali* baud mms purpureas : w P> tubcrcuhso ujxfrcntia 

 tuberculatum (m ramis ct folds), pctalis interne temper lattc )uu*u. 

 stftminibus et stylo quam corolla awiiper brevioeibus (vkJetur \ } corolte 

 squsnns pcttatis ptfucis (8-12 per petal uru) muho majoribus tU.4-U> 

 mm, dimiKt .) beiw disnngtuvur. 



VAGAT10-. V1CTOWA (ocademahs mnwU)- 'Big Defect, on maltee 

 samlbill* along the South Australian border fence, about 1 1 milts north ol 

 Serviectcm" (MOLD- & PARA-TYPUS in Herh. MKL—A ft. IVi'Ju. 

 1? Scpl W4$) : "Big Desert, on ogferi ma1lcc*beal1tlaiid of Bloc*; •&* aJ)oul 

 milo north-we$t of Yanac" (MF.L, AD K— /?. MetvitU No. I08£ SH 

 W. J. UkUs, l9Scpv 1932). 



A small, stiff, cricoid and non-tut*erculRr desert c-hnin, 30-60 cm, [1-2 ft.l 

 nigh, the smaller branches silvery from a dense indumcntuni 01 ov^Tlappm.e 

 Iie!la*e $49-le^- Leaves 5-12 \- I nipi M Linear, minutely scabrous but rather 

 shining, alniirtt terete from the strongly revohrtc margins (their under 

 ■silvery surface hidden), obtuse at apex, rigidly spreading at 4O 3 -90° l'ront 

 firanch). ftMpfrf eKeeediiii<ly scaly, 1-5 m ^inall uinbellaic- cluster? lcrminat- 

 infc tire final branches, on stotit pedicels about as lortg 3l5 the peftSntb 

 (4- s ^ Mini ), Caty? to two-thirds the lentflb of ex.pan^ed corolla, purplish- 

 scaly, each of the 5* prominent triangular lobes i. 2 mm. long. Petals sfc 4 Mfli 

 lonft, elJiplical, ncutish, vivid chrome-yellow and glabrous within, "but cloched 

 extcrnaJly wrth comparatively few (to 12), large (to 1 mm wi<le1, cop]tcry* 

 hued peltate scales which become torn radially. StajmvttA fil&mcuts 2*3 mm 

 long; anthers ratVr large, l-t.2 >; 0*8 omi. Ovo*\: pyfamidat, densely covered 

 with silver -white lacerate squamulej; style short and stout <*l-2 trim.) 

 becoming glabrous. Fruit not yet 3ecn. 



Except for Pkcbuliwm natui <F Muell.'i Maiden &: B^tche— -a shrub 

 5-10 ft high, with brc<ul flat leaves and larger pUfpfe corolla — , the new 

 species is the only eastern Auslralian representative of the scclion Enf>he- 

 bahum. (peltate-scaly plants) has 1113 (hslhttt mc.v.r Yttlk\ a! least as Long ^^ 

 the tube P> hxvaiteuse shares this feature with a group of closely related, 

 yellowish-floweTcd species m Western Australia; but the only one of ihe^e 

 approaching it at all closely is P, t\$frad&j\tm (F. Muoll) Beritlv. and i hat 

 Itas very tubercular branches, leaves revolute but not icabrid. cornpatatively 

 longer style and starniii&l filam<ms and much smaller (up to 0,3 moi wideK 



