270 J. H. MAIDEN. 



3 mm. broad, rigid, thickish, finely striate with numerous 

 fine parallel nerves, scarcely visible without a lens, the 

 central one sometimes rather more prominent than the 

 rest, and so visible to the naked eye. 



Peduncles somewhat angular, resinous, erect, short, 

 usually about 5 mm. long and single, straight, bearing an 

 ovoid head or a subcylindrical or a somewhat loose spike of 

 1*5 cm. (say \ inch) long. 



Mowers 5-merous. Calyx sinuate-toothed, not half as 

 long as the corolla, glabrous. Petals united about half- 

 way down, glabrous. Pistil hoary. 



Pods thin, somewhat oblique, somewhat narrowed at the 

 base, 4 or 5 cm. long, and 1 cm. wide, the sutures edged 

 with a narrow thickened margin, and the valves slightly 

 veined. Seeds ovate oblique or almost transverse, promin- 

 ently embossing the valves, the funicle in two folds, 

 terminating in a not very much thickened arillus. 



Comet Vale, 63 miles north of Kalgoorlie. (John Thomas 

 Jutson, No. 281, in flower; No. 175, in fruit). 



This may be a puzzling species, because it varies from 

 inflorescence in heads to inflorescence in spikes, but the 

 spikes are so marked in some of the specimens that it had 

 better be put in the Juliflorse. 



The following specimens illustrate the above variation: — 



(a) Ovoid heads scarcely more than globular, Goongarrie, 

 55 miles north of Kalgoorlie (J.H.M.) ; Tampa, 120 miles 

 north of Kalgoorlie (J. T. Jutson); Comet Vale (J. T. Jutson, 

 No. 253). 



(b) Short oblong spikes, hardly twice as long as broad. 

 Comet Vale (J. T. Jutson, Nos. 271, 253). 



(c) Decidedly spicate (Comet Vale, J. T. Jutson, Nos. 

 281, 282). So far, therefore, the species has been traced 

 between sixty and seventy miles north of Goongarrie. 



