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: summits keeled and terminating in callous apices, margins ciliate with 
short woolly hairs. Corolla white, hardly 2 lines long, the lobes 
slightly longer than the tube. Filaments adnate above the middle of 
the anthers, the latter dark-colored, ovate, with small white recurved 
sterile tips. Hypogynous disk of free ovate scales. Ovary glabrous, 
turbinate, slightly ribbed, 2-celled ; style very short. Fruit slightly 
exceeding the calyx, obovate, longitudinally striate, 1 -seeded by abor- 
tion. 
Locality. — Near Albany, October, 1903. — C. R. P. Andrews. 
Remarks. — Independently of carpological differences, this new 
species can be distinguished from it nearest ally as follows : — 
Section — 
Perojoa 
Series — 
Oppositifolice 
L. oppositifolius , Sond. 
Leaves narrow to 
broad-linear, carinate, 
magi ns entire. 
L. denticulatus , W. V. F. 
Leaves ovate, promi- 
nently striate, margins 
denticulate. 
Sepals colored, simp- 
ly obtuse. 
Sepals herbaceous, 
carinate and callous at 
the apices. 
Anthers with promi- 
nent sterile tips 
Anthers with minute 
sterile tips. 
Hypogynous disk of 
connate scales. 
Hypogynous disk of 
free scales. 
LEUCOPOGON MINUTIFOLIUS, sp. nov.— 
An undershrub with numerous slender erect stems arising fiom a 
thick stock, all under 1 foot in height, corymbosely branched above the 
middle, the branches pubescent. Leaves imbricate, ovate to ovate- 
lanceolate, very obtuse, concave, thick, line long, strongly keeled, 
with several obscure parallel nerves. Flowers small, in headlike 
spikes. Bracts leaflike, slightly membranous-margined ; bracteoles 
ovate orbicular, obtuse, ciliolate, concave, prominently keeled, not half 
as long as the calyx, Sepals lanceolate ovate, very obtuse, purplish, 
ciliolate, slightly above 1 line long. Corolla 2\ lines long, the lobes 
much longer than the tube. Anthers rather broad, the filament 
attached immediately below the prominent recurved sterile tips. 
Hypogynous disk truncate. Ovary glabrous, 2-celled, slightly dilated 
at the summit, the style short and thick. Fruit cylindrical, slightly 
exceeding the calyx, truncate, i-seeded, the style persistent. 
Locality . — Sand plain East of Stirling Range, October 1903. — 
C. R. P. Andrews. 
