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Th/r South Australia Naturalist. 
BOTANICAL NOTES. 
By ERNEST H. ISING. 
Eremophila decipiens. 
Eremophila decipiens, Ostenfeld, in “Contributions to West 
Australian Botany” Part III., in “Danske Videns Selskab.” 
III., 2 (1921), p. 120, t. 12, fig. 2. 
1 his is the first record of this plant in South Australia, as 
I obtained a specimen of it at Ooldea, on the East-West line, 
in September, 1920 (No. 1611). I submitted a specimen to Dr. 
C. H. Ostenfeld, of the Botanical Museum, Copenhagen, Den- 
mark, and under date of August, 1923, he writes: — “Your plant 
agrees well with my Eremophila decipiens and I should name 
It so. There are small and insignificant differences, viz., the calyx 
lobes are somewhat longer and more acute in yours, but I do not 
think it of any importance. Kew Herbarium has many speci- 
mens of E. decipiens from the eremaean parts of West Australia, 
and it is quite natural that it also reaches to South Australia.” 
1 he type comes from Kaigoorlie and was collected on the 
7th October, 1914, by Dr. Ostenfeld (he.). This West Australian, 
locality is similar country to Ooldea. 
Dr. Ostenfeld says: — “Ihis new species comes near to E. 
maculata (Ker.) F.v.M., and has been confounded with it. It 
differs in the quite different tomentum, which in E. maculata 
consists of rather short and recurved single hairs forming a dense 
clothing on the young branches (the leaves are quite glabrous), 
while in the new species both the young branches and the young 
leaves bear a minute stellate pubescence. Further differences 
are found in the smaller calyx-lobes (in E. maculata longer and 
acuminate) and in the glabrous innerside of the corolla (in E. 
macidata with some long hairs), etc. The present species seems 
to be mostly a West Australian representative of E. maculata 
and is probably well distributed in the interior of 
the State, as far as I am able to judge from the 
numerous specimens in the Kew Herbarium. The true E. macu- 
lata F.V.A4. (Stenochilus maculatus Ker., in Bot. Regist. tab. 647, 
1822) seems to be mostly Eastern, but I do not know if it also 
occurs in West Australia. To my species perhaps 
belongs E. maculata var. brevijolia Benth. (El. Austr. V., 1870, 
29), but the few words of the diagnosis do not say anything about 
the different kind of hairiness.” 
This species is also near E. glabra (R. Br.) Ostenf., in the 
foliage which is lanceolate in both, but I have specimens E. glabra 
with both larger and smaller leaves. The brandies have similar 
clothing in both. 
