25 
Florets solitary, 5-merous. Pappus a ring of short bristles, dilated and 
. connate at the base, and usually falling off with the corolla. 
Locality . — Minginew, September, 1903. — W. V. F. 
Remarks . — Closely allied to B. skirrophora , Benth., differing in 
more slender habit, the not hirsute receptacle, in all the partial in- 
volucral bracts bearing laminae and in the pappus. 
HELIPTERUM PACHYCH^TUW, sp. nov — 
An annual more or less invested with crisped woolly hairs, with 
several slender, almost simple branches ascending from the base, all 
specimens under 6 inches high. Lower leaves lanceolate-oblong, 
almost opposite, f-i-J- inches long, upper linear, smaller and degenerat- 
ing to small leafy bracts on the peduncles. Involucre hemispherical, 
3-I-4 lines diameter. Bracts in few series, ovate, with a firm lanceolate- 
ovate centre, tinged with purple and excepting a few of the outermost, 
all membranous-margined and terminating in deltoid-ovate hyaline 
laminae of not more than one line in length on the inner bracts. 
Florets 20-25, slightly hispid, all hermaphrodite, and, excepting 2-3 in 
each head, all fertile. Achenes compressed, comparatively broad, 
densely silky-villous. Pappus of 15-20 plumose bristles, all equal and 
longer than the floret, rigid, much thickened downwards and united 
at the base, forming a short tube. 
Locality. — Jacup, 50 miles west of Phillips River, among grass in 
shade of trees, October, 1903. — C. R. P. Andrews. 
Remarks . — This species has the habit and involucre of some forms 
of H. hyalospernium , F. v. M., with almost the achenes of H. rubellum 
Benth In the shortly connate pappus bristles, it approaches H. 
Troedelii , F. v. M. 
GOODENIACE^E. 
GOODENIA DECURSIVA, sp. nov.— 
An erect shrub with stout branches and, excepting a little wool 
in the axils of the leaves, bracts, and bracteoles, quite glabrous, the 
lower portion of the branches covered with the persistent bases of 
the leaves. Leaves crowded in the upper portion of the branches, 
sessile, stem-clasping and shortly decurrent, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 
obtuse, or hardly acute, distantly and irregularly toothed, rather 
firm, from 1 to 1 \ inches long, the floral leaves gradually smaller, 
from narrow-ovate to broad-lanceolate and entire. Flower white 
or tinged with purple, in a narrow racemose-panicle, the flowers in 
the lower half 2-4 on short secondary peduncles, the upper portion 
of the inflorescence simply racemose, the whole 3-4 inches long ; 
primary peduncle not much shorter, stout and quadrangular. Bracts 
narrow-ovate to lanceolate ; bracteoles linear-subulate. Pedicels short. 
