76 E. CHEEL. 
usually found, and to the above specimens in the National Her- 
barium, Sydney, are represented as follows:— Wardell, Richmond 
River, E. Betche and Rev. W. W. Watts; Byron Bay, W. Forsyth; 
East Ballina, W. Baeuerlen (No. 458) and Rev. W. W. Watts; 
Broadwater, Richmond River, E. Cheel; Tweed River, W. Forsyth; 
Coffs Harbour, J. L. Boorman; Stradbroke Island, Queensland, 
C. T. White. I have not seen the specimens collected at Mudgee 
by Woolls (F.v.M., Fragm. 1x, 176), and suggest that they prob- 
ably belong to H. flavescens. 
H. flavescens A. Cunn. ex Schau. in Linnea, x, 310 (1835); 
Myrt. Xeroca. i, 192, t. 3 B. (1840); Walp., Repert. ii, 154 
(1843); B. Fl. iii, (1866); Hnosanthes flavescens A. Cunn. | 
ex Schau., Nov. Act. Acad. Caesar. Leop. Carol. X1x, Suppl. 
ii, 192, t. 3 (1840). 
The following is a description given by Walpers, l.c., 
“Ramis decumbentib.; foll. incurvis fasciculato-confertis 
claviculata acerosis, a lateribus compressis.”’ 
This is united with H. virgatus as a synonym by Ben- 
tham l.c., and Mueller l.c., but the decumbent habit and 
crowded leaves and other characters seem to me to render 
it sufficiently distinct, to regard it as a distinct species. 
From the collector’s notes and abundant herbarium material 
it may be described as follows:— 
A low decumbent shrub usually attaining a height of about 14 
feet, but spreading several feet on the ground. Leaves slightly 
shorter than those of H. virgata and more or less linear-triquetrous 
falcate, crowded, especially on the short branchlets; oil-glands very 
prominent, the whole aspect of the plant being of a glaucous or 
silvery appearance. Flowers on very short but distinct pedicels, 
crowded towards the tips of the branchlets in the axil of the leaves. 
Sepals and petals similar in shape and size, but of a yellowish 
colour and more viscid, and the style longer than those of H. 
wurgata. 
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