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would come between H. rugosa R. Br. and H. epiglottis Labill. The 
present species would key out as follows : — 
Fruit rugose, stigmatic disk with a central cone. 
Ftuit above 1 inch long, f inch broad . . . . . . . . E. rostrata. 
Fruit i-f inch long, under \ inch broad . . . . . . E. rugosa. 
Fruit smooth or slightly rugose, stigmatic disk flat or with a minute 
central apiculuin. 
Leaves 4 - 7.5 cm. long, 1 mm. diam. Native of Tasmania . . E. epiglottis. 
Leaves 2-4 cm. long, 2 mm. diam. Native of South-west 
Queensland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E. collina. 
Hakea intermedia Ewart and Davies FI. North. Terr. 86, tab. 10 
(1917). 
Gregory South District: Mount Howitt Station, about 80 miles W. 
of Eromanga, in drifted sand at and near the base of sandhills, S. T. 
Blake 11935 (flower buds, a few older flowers and old fruits), 4-7-1936 
(irregular small tree up to 20 ft., with very thick dark grey deeply 
furrowed corky bark; flowers dull yellow, scented) ; Tanbar Station, 
S.W. of Canterbury, on sand-plain among Triodia Basedowii , S. T. Blake 
12142 (flowers), 15-7-1936 (narrow, rather irregular shrub or small 
tree, up to 15 ft., with dark grey rather rugged bark ; leaves dull 
subglaucous; flowers dirty yellow). 
Specimen No. 11935 bears mostly young buds rather badly insect- 
eaten but they have the oblique gland of H. intermedia Ewart and 
Davies. It consists of two sheets taken from separate trees; a sterile 
vigorous shoot has leaves up to 20 cm. long. No. 12142 has leaves mostly 
about 5 cm. long, racemes up to 12 cm. long and large flowers on pedicles 
up to 1 cm. long, the flowers are badly insect eaten, especially the 
stigmatic tops of the pistils but one or two in better preservation show 
the peculiar stigmatic top of H. intermedia Ewart and Davies described 
by the authors. 
Helicia Bauerlenii sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, 6-10 m. alta, ramulis robustis junioribus dense 
ferrugineo-pubescentibus. Folia perbreviter petiolata, serrulata, 
lanceolata, apice acuta, basin versus leviter angustata sed basi ipsa 
obtusa, utrinque valde reticulata, supra glabra, costa media excepta ; 
costa media impressa plus vel minus dense ferrugineo-floccosa ; venis et 
vemflis elevatis; subtus ferrugineo-pubescentia, costa media et nervis 
praecipuis valde elevatis ; petiolo 2-2*3 mm. longo ; lamina 12-18 cm. 
longa, 3-4 cm. lata. Racemi densiflori, 5-8 cm. longi; rhachi pedicellis 
petalisque densissime ferrugineo-pubescentibus; pedicellis bifloris, 1.5-2 
cm. longis. Petala 5 mm. longa; antherae 2 mm. longae. Pistillum 4.5 
mm. longum ; ovario dense ferrugineo-hirsuto ; stylo in parte inferiori 
pilis paucis longis vestito ; stigmate clavato, glabro. Fructus ellipsoideus, 
1.3 cm. longus, 1 cm. diam. 
New South Wales. — U ralba, W. Bauerlen 629 (type: flowering 
specimens), Nov. 1891 (small tree 20-30 ft. high, 3-6 in. diam.) ; several 
sheets in Herbarium Technological Museum, Sydney, labelled H. 
ferruginea F.v.M. ?; Chillingham, Upper Tweed River; Mullumbimby, 
W. Bauerlen (flower-buds), Sept. 1895; Murwillumbah, W. Bauerlen 
(flowering specimens), Nov. 1892 — all in Herbarium, Technological 
Museum, Sydney; Chillingham, Upper Tweed River, J. Dixon — in 
Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane. 
