20(1 Wilms, Horn nf innorio ™<i South Austria ( V vJi. r** 



"Wljiustick Scrub" and the Ml YVelKtigtccrt area (between MacallKtw and 

 .Avon .Rivers). 



f'ROSTANTHERA MLCROPHYLLA A. Omit, in heath, 

 forma AERUGINOSA J. H. tyitiU* 



fi><-»m no*a cb corcl'iur cy>tueu*vir:ilctn laer>iKTfcli'3i.iffV£A&] 



V*| *|M.HCMMrtl) belie tlis-luKU. 



/*. tkfaratttJt.i tens, auctt, V<cf., ko/j K, Muen. 



HQ1 QTYPUS 'J h\ Herb. MEL specimen hflike oomlam eoinitans— "Rock 

 Holes bote, Zl\ miles north tii I'anitva and near the South Australian 

 border" (I, if. Willis, 29 Aug, 1955)" 



As it occurs in the desert sand-lull country throughout north-western Vic- 

 totia (and adjoining parts of South Australia). Prostan-thrnh microfrhytln is 

 almost invariably a dinrijurtive shrub with bluc-grcen flowery; out i»» otfier 

 States the colour if usually scarfet or purplish. This green form has for lung 

 been iden titied in Melbourne Herbarium as "P. chtaruntha K, MuelL" ana, 

 a* such, it appear in Ewart's Fl<*ty* 0/ Ficiotia, p. 983 (1^30) The true 

 t. chUmntha of South Australia (type from ML Barker Creek I is * tyify 

 different plant, distinguished by en indimicnium of spiny -brand tcl (never 

 simple, curled) hairs, much larger ribbed calyx (to !2 nun long), slender 

 fjedicelh about K> mm king and anthers without the slender appendages found 

 in nil forms of P uinryfthylfa; it jia&s not oti.ni in Victoria, and should be 

 deleted from the State's flora. Type v f the original red-flowered P. tnkro~ 

 PbylhK which is morphologically almost identical with the (orirta ffftow*^ 

 came, from "Kuryalian Scrub" in the lower T.arhlan Rtvcr area, N.S.VV. 

 (A. CmnwrjUa-ntNQ, 225, iSl/). 



Composite 



fiNAPTlAT.TUM UWRttTCOLA /, tf. Wttlis, nomen novum. 



<f- ntputcH»m V. Muell <?.< Hnnk r P/aw /.vm*. /; ,517, T. «M (l$sr*i; ncm 



l/ ( utiu(n:]i\\m V,. K'.>ch in iwits-u «M. 55*1 O0$l). 



The name L*»w/>/m/tiwi at t y^Hmt F. Muell. e.v Hook, i., betru/ a l&Kct 

 homonym for (I. al{<iyjt<?titu C. Kficfi (validly published, with detailed deccrip 

 tion nl :t Kitmsian plant), tuust lapse am'i he replaced by a new name 1 

 have chosen the epithet " uwbricola? for this uncommon plant of south-east 

 Australian mountains, In allusion to it? habitat — always >n the shade, perching 

 on wet tuck facts ot ledges ami usually associated with waterfalls or QftfiCflcW. 

 Mueller's epithet (Kilpigsmcm) was a little inappropriate; for, although thU 

 most elegant oi Vntorian cudweeds 'tort aveencf into the nips, it oo.tir*. alsj 

 at such comparatively low elevations as the Little River Falls near VVaujnl- 

 nierang* and Mason"? Falls (in the Kinglake National Park — it.? nearest 

 approach to Melbourne). Other occurrences in the State are at Mis. Coupler, 

 Buffalo, St. Bernard, Fealhertup, Spurn ICojj, Bogong and the Cobboras; 

 nthcrvvisc tnt Mraintatn Cudwvixl in found only nt the Kosciusko region of 

 south-eastern New South Waif:? and, aeeortlinc to L. Rodway £l9wj. "about 

 the summit -of mptt mountains" in Tasmania. 



LEPTORRHYNCHUS GA'LKSIT (if, B. JiV(faJM4|Q / H, Willi*. 

 comhinatio nova. 



Jfeiirhryxxm <tatciit H fl. Willi»mson in Prcc. r&y. A'rtc. t>'iet. n. fct- ii: 

 2i, T5 W22). 



Type ai this species came from a drv hill-Mde at Lome. Vic, tHerb. 

 .MEL— A- C F ColCV ? Her, 1<)2J ) and no «uhv^uenl eollrctirvn h%$ ever 

 rearhetl the Melbourne Herbarium^ In his original description, Williatn&on 

 stated that the plant bears a ■J»stintt resemblance in habit and £*f\e*ff1 aspect 

 to certain spec>es <d Lef>torrU\mihus, but went on to say: **Jt is here placed 

 out oi Upton hynchns on account of the shortness of the florets and the 



