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flowers more distinctly spicate. I have not seen the plant 

 figured, and therefore suspend my judgment concerning it. 



The late Dr. A. Morrison, in the " Scottish Botanical 

 Review " for April, 1912, p. 99 gave a description of the 

 pods of A. ephedroides (Kunonoppin, F. E. Victor). I have 

 not seen them, and the specimens should be re-examined. 



The following specimen (Minginew, W. V. Fitzgerald, 

 September, 1903) is temporarily attached to A. ephedroides, 

 pending the receipt of pods and further information. It 

 appears to differ from A. ephedroides in the young phyllodes 

 which are terete and covered with a close white tomentum. 

 The lobing of the calyx is also much more pronounced than 

 in typical A, ephedroides. 



Phyllodes when young, weak, covered in a close white 

 tomentum; when mature smooth, and lined rather than 

 grooved as in A. ephedroides. Flowers in short ovoid 

 spikes half an inch long, very irregular, 5-merous, and 

 sometimes 4-merous. Peduncle short and covered in white 

 hair. Rhachis hairy. Floral bract capitate or thin, hairy. 

 Calyx more or less deeply lobed, lobes rather narrow, fully 

 half as long as the corolla, hairy. Petals united half way 

 up when young, free when mature, smooth. Pistil hairy. 

 Pods not seen. 



A. Tratmaniana W. V. F. in Journ. W.A. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 p. 8 (1904). 

 The author says "It may ultimately prove to be a viscid 

 form of A. ephedroides Benth." This may be so; I do not 

 think so, but until complete material of A. ephedroides is 

 available it is best to let A. Tratmaniana stand, especially 

 as the four-angled phyllodes appear to be distinct, and 

 there are other differences. 



Mr. Fitzgerald describes his A. Tratmaniana with "calyx 

 broadly turbinate." The type comes from Ounderdin. I 



