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THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW PLANTS FROM THE WESTERN 
REGIONS OF AUSTRALIA; 
By Baeon Yon Muellee, K.C.M.G., M. & Ph.D., F.R.S. 
Melaleuca seorsiflora— Quite glabrous ; leaves scattered, conspicuously stalked, 
short, semicylindric-linear, spreading, nerveless, bluntisli ; flowers small, solitary 
in the axils ; tube of the calyx ellipsoid-cylindric, twice longer than broad ; lobes 
semilanceolate-linear, nearly half as long as the tube; petals white, oval, indexed 
longitudinally ; stamens white, 10 — 14 in each set ; filaments fascicularly arranged, 
from as long as the connate part to twice as long ; anthers oval, pale ; ovary 
immersed. 
Near Mount Bugged; Miss S. Brooke. 
Leaves from a quarter to nearly half an inch long, somewhat narrowed into 
the base and apex, not shining nor very crowded. Flowers towards and near the 
summit of the branchlets, but not forming spikes. Calyx remarkably slender, 
nearly J- inch long. Petals tender-membranous, not ciliated. Fruit not seen. 
Height and stature of plant also as yet unknown. 
Allied to M. dissitiflora, particularly so far as the dispersion of the flowers 
is concerned, but the leaves shorter and blunter, no distinct bracts developed 
unless very fugaciously, the calyx considerably longer and the fruit also likely 
different. — From M. pauperiflora, to which M. fasciculiflora of Bentham is near 
akin, our additional species differs principally in the solitary position of the 
flowers, in non-occurrence of long-persistent and imbricated bracts, in the 
elongation of the calyces and their pointed lobes, in the longer integral portions 
of the stamens with somewhat more numerous filaments, — the fruit also in this 
instance requiring comparison. The strong odour of the plant indicates its 
antiseptic value. 
Goodenia O’ Donnell ii. — Decumbent, short-hairy ; branches leafy, slender ; 
lower leaves obovate-cuneate, upper cuneate-lanceolar, gradually narrower and 
smaller, all flat, denticulated and narrowed into a petiolar base ; peduncles 
none ; pedicels axillary, solitary or two or three together, about as long as the 
flowers ; bracteoles none ; lobes of the calyx linear, broader downward, nearly 
as long as the tube ; corolla yellow, somewhat hairy outside, the three lower 
lobes rather short, the two upper laterally produced outward into a small 
semiorbicular appendage ; anthers minutely pointed ; style glabrous, hardly half 
as long as the corolla ; cover of the stigma longitudinally much impressed, 
bearded only at the orifice ; fruit-capsule roundish, compressed, at and near the 
base only septate ; seeds few, large, standing nearly at the same level and 
not much shorter than the valves, flat, pale-brownish, surrounded by a conspicuous 
colourless membrane. 
Near the Ord-River ; H. T. O’Donell. 
Seemingly an herbaceous plant. Stem or branches weak. Leaves of thin 
consistence, equally pale-green, the lower 1^ — 2 inches long, the upper of lesser 
dimensions, those towards the end of the branches almost reduced to bracts, thus 
rendering there the inflorescence a foliate raceme ; denticulations rather remote 
and not extending to the lower portion of the leaves. Pedicels slender, generally 
about half an inch long; the joint at the base of the calyx. Corolla about ^ inch 
long, inside thinly white-velvety towards the base. The bulging of the stigma- 
cover indicative of an inclination to form two partitions, as in the section 
Distylis of Calogyne. Capsule measuring hardly more than J inch. Surrounding 
membrane of the seeds not very broad. 
Affinity connects this plant variously with several congeners, while its 
external appearance reminds also of Catospermum Muellcri. From G. coronopifolia 
