258 J. H. MAIDEN. 



It may be described as follows: — 



Phyllodia grooved, with a few scattered hairs; more on 

 the tip, flattened. Flowers in short spikes (|- incb), peduncle 

 covered with short white hair. Rhachis silky pubescent, 

 5-merous. Floral bract large, covered with hair. Calyx 

 lobed half way down, covered in soft hair, half as long as 

 the corolla. Petals smootb, separating about half way 

 down, generally recurved, and with a slight midrib. Pistil 

 covered in a thick mat of hair. 



I have also seen Drummond's Fifth Collection, No. 2, 

 which I understand was also collected on the Darling Range. 

 This specimen, collected in 1849, could obviously not have 

 been seen by Bentham when penning his original descrip- 

 tion of 1842, but he includes it in his amended description 

 of B. Fl. ii, 399. The present specimen, as compared with 

 Preiss's No. 974, shows the following differences: — 



No. 974 is silky hairy everywhere, except in the adult 

 foliage, and this silky hairiness extends to the floral bracts. 

 The phyllodes are longer and more deeply grooved, and its 

 calyx-lobes are pronounced, while the calyx-tube is almost 

 truncate in Drummond's specimen. Floral bracts stipitate 

 in Preiss's specimen and foliaceous in Drummond's No. 2. 

 The latter specimen may be thus described. 



Phyllodia terete, flexuose, smooth, more lined than 

 grooved. Flowers in ovoid heads, sessile; rhachis glabrous, 

 4-merous. Floral bract hoary. Calyx truncate, lobed, 

 with minute points, glabrous. Petals smooth, much 

 thickened at the tips. Pistil hairy. 



Pods in both cases unknown. I trust that Perth botan- 

 ists and collectors will make satisfactory collections and 

 notes of Darling Range (and indeed other localities) speci- 

 mens believed to be A. epheclroldes. 



The A. epheclroides of Fig. 35 of Diels and Pritzel, 

 Engler's Jahrb., xxxv, 306, shows a rather rigid plant with 



