New additions to the Flora of Western Australia. 71 



upper SLirface glabrous and slightly hairy with scattered 

 appressed hairs beneath, oblong-elliptical, the middle leaves 

 about 8 cm long and almost 2*5 cm broad, very coarsely 

 dentate. The searious scales are broad but very short and 

 fall off very early. The sepals are slightly hairy, the petals 

 are large. Very near to our form are the specimens collected 

 by Cecil Andrews (among granite rocks by Helena River, 

 17 m. east of Perth, 8. XI. 1902, W. A. FL First Coll. No. 

 14), which, however, are still more hairy and háve somewhat 

 smaller f lowers. Hardly an other Hibbertia — species could 

 be found in which the indumentum, the size, form, dentation, 

 textuře of leaves, the size of the bracts and flowers would 

 vary in such a degree; nevertheless Bentham is right in 

 iiniting all these forms, because there are trausitions be- 

 tween them. 



9. H. Cunning-hamii Ait. ex Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3183 

 (1832), Benth. FL Austr. I. 39 (1863), F. v. Muell. Fragm. 

 XL 93 (1880), First Census 2 (1882), Sec. Census 2 (1889). 



Candollea Cunninghamii Benth. in Maund Bot. II. t. 

 83 (1839). 



Hibbertia lactucaef olia Steud. in PÍ. Preiss. I. 267 

 (1844—45). 



W. A. — Yallins^up and Cape Naturaliste, A. A. Dorrien- 

 Smith." 



A form with ali^iost non-auriculate leaves, which thus 

 approaches the nearly related E. glaberrima F. v. Muell., 

 but may be readily distinguished by its far smaller flowers. 

 The latter species, an authentic specimen of which (Macdo- 

 nell Range, Brinkleys Bluff, M'Douall-Stuart) I had the 

 opportunity to examine, was collected on the originál loca- 

 lity also by R. Tate (Horn Exploring Expedition) ; besides 

 I saw an other specimen collected by Gosse (Gosse's Expe- 

 dition Centre of South Australia). 



H. Cunninghamii Ait., glaberrima F. v. Muell. and longi- 

 folia F. v. Muell. form a grotip of very neariy allied but 

 geographicaly separated species; the first is Western- Austra- 

 lian, the second belongs to the Eremaea, while the last spe- 

 cies which is characteristic already with its elongated, lineal- 

 lanceolate leaves and large flowers, is limited to tropical 



