M i*at b 3 Wnus, Uttf* Itf IkiOrin "»"* South .^m.V.m'w W 



0)0 re nomvnH-s peltate tfdlc* «n I he back* »-»f the totals. The epithet 

 "/gwih^ia?" alludes to the Victorian Counly of I owa<-\ where I lie specie* is 

 known to occur, but it uliHnnbtAcll y ako ranges nonit distance within ihi* 

 adjoining South Australiaxi County oi tiuckmgliaiit, 



Tremandrocear 



TKTKATilliC'V STUNOCARPA ) H, fj*8tt*- t 



specie* nova ad ?'. cimiiYiw: Liudb proxime accedes, sed difVcn - statura 

 majore* { 1&QU£ ad 150 cm ) lamis siinerionbus atu-nuatis pnctic 

 efoli&tU, f'uliih remotU aUe-rnk (inttrdum ba>in versus paucis tcniatH) 

 ± iCrrwli*, ucdicelli? a SfiUs pullis glandulosis promiuentec muniiit 

 ('similiter calyce) et fuveoaue- capsuli* rtsagflfe t, usque ad \£ s 4 mm J 

 fusiformibux fon-yr a-cummattT. 



I'AGATfO VICTORIA (ftuwvahs) — « Gembrook oWemem versus 1 mill., 

 in iOlo ex rupe grajiodiorittca abrosa (HOl-O'f'YPHS in Herb. ML'L. 

 P&R4TVPUS h* NSW— #>> WotitMK * t)pc. 1046); tx-mbrnoV 

 Ram/es CMBjCj-C U/V/rr. Sept. 188! ) ; Emerald (MEL- .P. ft, U. St. 

 Jo fat. Nov. 1903j ; "Junction of [ftfctfC roads on Rysrm's Creek, about 51* 

 mile-; north of Labenouchc" (MF.I., NSW, K -/. H Willis* \9 On 

 1952), 



A very distinctive Jilsc-Howci'cd mounUin- forest PnMU. ■apparently restricted 

 to the granodiurite waienshed of the Yarra, Larrobe and Bunyin Rubers, Vic- 

 toria. The ultimate slender, otten almost leafless blanche;; are weak and trail- 

 ing, to 350 till [;?; S ft.] b>ilp p , * tightly 31 abrnns but never hairy I.HQVCt $0t 

 rhomboid-orbicular. 5- Id tnm. lung and broad, almost ssssil^, remote, alternate 

 (or a few oi the lowermost tcrnutc. as in V. tilht-tn Liiutt.), at least some — 

 a* id oilco most— br^nlarly srttTytfc; flora) leavo or bracts narrower and 

 much smaller. Pedu-cis both minutely pubesrem ni d densely covered with dark 

 erecl gland-lipped bustles- tup to ).? mm. long.) which extend onto tUti calyx. 

 /'Viri// flattened, fusiform, up 10 12 mm. Itfnjy and 4 mm, wide (ar centre). 

 laperhnj into the lung-acuminate style, verv microscopically pubescent ami 

 with scattered p;landular bristle* (much sm.iHei than C'ii c.'^yx) SrnU d.irk 

 brown, ellipsoid, 2*3 a 15 inm., almost glabron:-, with pruinineuc whiti$K 

 afttj^ld appendage fit distal end (2 uvi'er ovules abortive^. 



DtSCHAStillt. 



T sft-Howi'lM, by virtue of its long, narrow, spindle-shaned eapaiilea — Uenue 

 the epithet — is unique m tins genus, all other Irnowu Nicies havmg ohovate, 

 apically flattened and btiruiculate fruits, ll most closely approaches T' t atiata 

 T.indl., -(vhich often grows hi the wme (ocftlvty, wid n few of iVig lo\vcrmo?t 

 leaves are often in Uirees (as in '/'. cifiata) ; but, in addition to the strikingly 

 dissimilar fruits, the t46thli foha%e, lotig nafcetf som^svhal rush like brandies 

 and constantly gUndnhr-briRtly |»edircls amj*ly jumify recognition of l!lW 

 new species. Snectmeus ra Melbounie Herbarium had been variously rtrferrtd 

 to r, rihata .nnd 5T- xnl'apkyHn 8tfu1t7, The latlcr is emjrcly ^labious ai\d 

 .-ilniost leaflos (<»r with very few scaacred narrow leaves and bracts), having 

 short smooth pedicels and only 2 ovule* to each ovary.; ft was collected in th* 

 "L'viicr Yam* Hatlyes'' (in'obably near the Baw baws) by r". Mueller dunuy 

 jAttUfi/)- 1803, and h also Unovvn from Mt. Kayc awl Combimbar jr» Kaist 

 Ciinp6lM.nd t extending across the N.S.W. border to sources of the Cienoa 

 River ("type locality)* 



Myrtcueae 



J.OMASTlil.MA SM1TH11 (foir.) J, H, H J r//iV, combinati* nova. 



t.onmitctma i-Uxptica R.nhn, Sxh. Trihir, t(>7 OS3fi'i; 



/;i(yt'iftu C/ttptiM Sin. tu 7'i;iJ!j_ /.I'rir S\>t M* 2Bt <J79<*K «<?;( Lain. (1780,), 



£ rip/mid irtwWu* Voir Evtyti mi*h But Suppl ^t W6 (l3t'.1)i 



.•b-Mk'Ktf ,vm:Vh,'i (Poit.) Merrill & Perry ii. .'. ArMfJ rfffati 1$ : lo U?J8J. 



