184 A. J. EWART, JEAN WHITE AND J. R. TOVEY. 
CONTRIBUTIONS to tHE FLORA or AUSTRALIA.* 
By ALFRED J. HWART, D.Sc. Ph.D, F.LS, Government 
Botanist of Victoria and Professor of Botany at the 
Melbourne University, and JEAN WHITE, mM. sc., Govern- 
ment Research Scholar, assisted by J. R. Tovey, First 
Herbarium Assistant, National Herbarium Melbourne. 
(Communicated by J. H. MAIDEN.) 
[With Plates XXX.-XXXVI_] 
| Read before the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, August 5, 1908. ] 
Aristida ramosa, R.Br., (Graminez). New for Victoria; 
Benalla, July 1906, and March 1908. 
Baeckea Maideni, Ewart and White, (Myrtacez). After 
Mr. J. H. Maiden, Government Botanist of N.S.W. 
M. Koch, No. 1021. Cowcowing, W.A., 1904. 
Shrub 15 to 3 feet high. Leaves opposite, crowded 
towards the ends of the stems. Broad-linear, with a 
small petiole, the surface of the lamina, especially on the 
under side, well provided with glands. Somewhat thick, 
blunt at the tip, slightly incurved at the margin. Length 
2mm., diameter °5 mm. Flowers solitary or in pairs. 
Sepals 5, petaloid with sinuous edges, perigynous, persist- 
ent, free. Length ‘9 mm., diameter 1 mm. Calyx tube 
green and rugose, more prominently ribbed than in B. 
crassifolia, which it appears to resemble in certain other 
respects. Bracts 2, conspicuous, persistent, pointed, length 
about 1 mm. Petals 5, white, sinuous edges, almost 
globular, free, very shortly stalked, perigynous. Length 
1°5 mm., diameter 1°5 mm. Stamens 10, one opposite the 
centre of each petal, and also one opposite the centre of 
1 Ninth Contribution, No. 8 in Vict. Nat., Vol. xx1v, p. 190, 1908. 
