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Locality . — Murchison District, in sandy soil. — E. W. Hursthouse, 
October, 1902. 
Remarks . — This new plant differs from M. Dmmmondii , Benth., 
orincipally in the foliage, the flowers sessile and seldom solitary in the 
txils and in the conspicuous persistent bracteoles. From the other 
fipecies having 5 stamens it is still further removed. 
8EAUFORTIA ERIOCEPHALA, sp. nov- 
A low spreading shrub of about 18 inches high, the branchlets 
md leaves invested with woolly white spreading hairs, rarely quite 
glabrous. Leaves opposite, spreading or erect, linear to linear-lanceol- 
ate, obtuse, shortly petioled, concave, keeled, 3-nerved, 3-4 lines long. 
Bracts broadly ovate or almost orbicular-cordate, with 5-7 nerves, 
reticulate-veined, all shorter than the calyxes. Flowers rather small, 
in dense globular or ovoid white woolly heads, the axis soon growing 
out; rhachis woolly tomentose. Bracteoles subulate, black-pointed. 
•Calyx woolly tomentose, the tube about one line long ; lobes subulate, 
•erect, glabrous within, about as long as the tube. Petals as long as 
ithe lobes, red, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, keeled, the back and edges 
woolly tomentose. Stamens scarlet or reddish purple, 4-5 lines long, 
in bundles of 5 ; claw narrow, densely woolly-tomentose, as long as or 
shorter than the glabrous filaments. Anther cells orbicular. Ovary 
/very short, with one perfect ovule in each cell ; style long, filiform. 
Fruiting spikes ovoid, \ inch long. 
Locality. — Moora, in ironstone gravel. — E. W. Hursthouse, 
► October, 1903. 
Remarks . — Before expansion, the flower-heads form an ovoid 
woolly mass, with the black points of the bracteoles and calyx segments 
protruding. The species is allied to B. purpurea , Lindley, but is 
easily distinguished by the woolly white hairs on the foliage and in- 
florescence ; bracts all shorter than the calyx ; petals not shorter than 
the calyx segments ; the woolly-tomentose staminal claws, etc. 
COMPOSITE. 
BRACHYCOMIE CILIOCARPA, sp. nov- 
A glabrous annual, with erect or ascending often much branched 
stems of 4-6 inches high Leaves pinnate, with few to many narrow 
linear segments. Flower heads rather large on long slender peduncles. 
Involucral bracts ovate, thin, with membranous slightly serrulated mar- 
gins. Ray-florets (white?) with a limb of above ^ inch in length. Disk- 
achenes much compressed, wingless, the edges ciliate with long white 
silky hairs, the faces quite smooth and glabrous. Ray-achenes turgid, 
obovate, laterally compressed, with a slightly raised line in the com- 
pression, which is ciliate with long white silky hairs, the faces of the 
