458 J. H. MAIDEN. 



angustati obtusi numerosioribus minore profundis. Fructibus 

 magnis conoideis, 3-5 costis prominentibus, margine truncata 

 planata, lata orificio parvo. 



"A shrubby Mallee" with smooth bark. 



Juvenile leaves not seen in their earliest stages, but broader, 

 and with the intramarginal vein more remote from the edge than 

 in the mature ones. 



Mature leaves coriaceous, shining, of similar colour on both 

 sides, covered with fine black dots, with long petioles (say 2-3 cm.) 

 lanceolate, asymmetrical, slightly falcate, tapering gradually to an 

 apex consisting of a soft point, about 11 cm. (say 4| inches long) 

 and 3 cm. broad in its widest part. 



Flowers with a terete peduncle of 2 - 2 # 5 cm., about seven in 

 the head, with flattened pedicels up to *5 cm. The buds large, 

 clavate, the calyx-tube longer than a third of the operculum, about 

 1 '5 cm. long, with five prominent ribs tapering into the pedicel, the 

 long slightly tapering blunt operculum with more numerous, 

 shallower ribs than those of the calyx-tube. 



Filaments cream-coloured, sometimes with a purplish flush at 

 the base, tapering trigonous or tetragonous, ribbed, with numerous 

 glands, anthers large with parallel cells and large gland at back. 



Fruits conoid, with three to five more prominent ribs and a 

 number of intermediate shallower ones, with a truncate, flattish, 

 slightly rounded, broad rim, with a small orifice; tips of the valves 

 sunk or scarcely flush with the orifice. 



Kwelkan, on the Northam-Merriden line, a few miles 

 north of Kellerberrin, Western Australia (Dr. Frederick 

 Stoward, Government Botanist and Plant Pathologist, No. 

 150, April, May, 1917). The type. 



The material is scanty, and it would appear that the 

 following specimen also belongs to this species. As this 

 material is also sparse it is desirable to describe it. 



A shrub or "small tree, the highest I have seen does not exceed 

 10 feet." Bark of a smooth, dull grey. Branchlets round, more 



