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strongly striate. Flowers sessile, forming short head-like spikes, ter- 
minal and in the upper axils on short leafy branches. Bracts minute ; 
bracteoles hyaline, cordate-ovate, obtuse, about ^ as long as the calyx, 
keeled and scantily ciliolate. Sepals hyaline, ovate-lanceolate and 
■somewhat cordate, obtuse, slightly above i-line long, ciliolate. Corolla 
.2\ lines long, the lobes longer than the tube. Anthers attached to 
tthe filaments, immediately below the bases of the conspicuous sterile 
itips. Hypogynous disk sinuate-dentate. Ovary glabrous, 2-celled, 
-dilated at the summit and then abruptly tapering into the very short 
style. 
Locality , — Murchison, October, 1902. — E. W. Hursthouse. 
Remarks. — The new plant differs from L. Gilbertii , Stsch., in the 
presence of hairy vestiture, broader striate leaves, proportionately 
shorter cordiform hyaline bracteoles, broader sepals and in the ovary. 
From M. gnaphalioides , Stsch., it is principally removed by the 
differently shaped and proportionately shorter bracts and bracteoles 
and the very different sepals and ovary. 
MYOPORINE^E. 
EREMOPHILA (Pholidia) Seaberula, sp. nov- 
A low growing, almost procumbent heath-like shrub, the branches 
with raised decurrent lines from each leaf-stalk and along with the 
foliage scaberulous and scarcely viscid. Leaves rather crowded, spread- 
ing or incurved, linear or almost subulate, obtuse, attenuated into a 
short petiole, entire, thick, flat above, the midrib prominent beneath, 
2-4 lines long. Flowers purple, solitary, on thick axiiliary pedicels of 
1-2 lines long. Calyx glabrous, about 2 lines long, the segments 
lanceolate-ovate and terminating in subulate recurved points. Corolla 
5-6 lines long, tube not longer than the calyx, the obliquely broad 
campanulate portion longer ; lobes broad and rathei short, the upper 
ones connate high up and recurved, the lower middle one bioader and 
longer than the others, quite glabrous without, slightly woolly within. 
Stamens included. Ovary glabrous, scarcely rugose, slightly laterally 
compressed, cylindrico-conical, 2-celled, each cell 2-ovulate. Style 
slender, glabrous, hooked at the end, exserted. Fruit narrow-ovate, not 
longer than the calyx, rugose and usually 4 celled. 
Locality. — Moora, growing in clay or rich loam in flat country. — 
E. W. Hursthouse, October, 1903. 
Remarks.— This new species approaches Eremophila ( Pholidia) 
microtheca , F. v. M., differing principally in the branches and foliage 
bein 0- scaberulous, not plumose-pubescent ; shape and arrangement of 
the leaves ; calyx-segments glabrous, not plumose-pubescent, also in 
the shape of the corolla and less rugose fruits. 
