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Chaiiles Avstix Gardner. 
Grevillea candicans C, A. Garchi. sp. nov. 
Section Cycladenia. 
Fi’utex ereetusj 2 m. altus, vamis erectis, ramnlis serieeo-pubeseentibus ; 
foliis erectis, pinnatis, pinnis 3-5, angustissime linearibns, rigidis, supra 
eonv(‘.\is, uninervis, subtus bisuleatis, glabris, aciitis, apiculo xxstulato 
praeditis; raeemis plei‘um<|ne singulis, tonninalibxis, ereetis, plixsminusve 
Jaxitloris; podnnculis brevissime pilosis; pediccdlis brovissinxis patentibus, 
pilosis; ptu’ianthio albo, extn.s pilis breviljiis vestito, intixs g’labx'O basin 
exeeplo, sub linil)o ovoideo-globoso vevoluto; toro redo; glandula hypogyna 
conspicua, annixlitonni, ovario globose, glabro, longe stipitato, non viscoso; 
stylo albo, elongato, Jeviter i)Iano, disco oblique laterali. 
Frntex 2 ju. altus; folia usque 17 eiu, longa, ])uitiae usque 14 <'ni. lougae, 
1 uuu. latae; rav-eini 9*M etn. longi; ])eriauthiuu] 1 eui. longuui, stylus 1.5 cm. 
loiigus. 
flab, in disti'. Irwin ad lines septentrionales, ab Galena se]>tentrioneni 
ciiM'u (>0 kin. versus, in locis areiiosis apertis, dor. in. Septeni. W. E. BlackaU 
4718. Typus in M(n*b. Pertli. 
AKinity to G. lencopteris Altnssn., tliifering priiici])ally in the I'edueed 
inlioreseiniee (usually a siiiijile raceme or very rarely 2 together), the shortly 
hairy perianth, fewer Itnif-segimmts, axis of the raceme &c. 
STEANGEA Aleissu. 
In working ovin* some S])ecimens in tlu' Herlin lierliarium in August, 
1937, 1 found a s] lecimen of Straiujca Jittsarls Aleissn. in fruit, which I 
immediately recognised as congeneric with a plant formerly known as Hdkca 
f stenocaypoicle:^ Y, Aliudl. ex Benth., and descu'ilied in this Journal xix. 79 
(1933) under the name Diplopter^ .^tenoenrpoh'les ( P. Muell. ex Bfuith.) 
€. A. Gnrdn. Still later, in January, 1949, whilst colh'cting at (’oclvlcsholl 
Gully, I saw Styaiujea cifanehicarpa in both llowau’ and fruit, and through 
the courtesy of Mr. C. '\\ White, the Go\'ernm(*ni Botanist of Queensland, 
I secured fruiting material of S. linearfs. There is no doubt that the three 
species constitute a separate and distinct genus, but in no case have tnau ioxxs 
authors described the seed correctly. This is solitary and ixuidulous on a 
slender funich', and togetlu*r Avilh the fiinicle enclosed in a 2-s(n‘iate ondocarj); 
the inmu’ layei’ ol' the endocarp conforms to tlie shape (tf llie cavity of the 
follicle and tnUii'cly <mcloses both seed and funicie, and is in turn enveloped 
by an outer la\'(*r of the endocarp Avhich is membranous but free rdong the 
outer margin. This jxeculiar structure was descril)ed undcu- Diploptera. 
Aleissner, Avheii desci’ibing Straugea Imean's referre<l to ‘hni upper follicle 
apparently (juite dev(doj)ed, but only Ix^ginniug to sjdit on one edge, and 
shoAving the nerviform itiargin of the seed Avhich Ave durst not take out for 
fear of spoiling the specimen, the other a]iparent]y le>ss peidladly developed 
although ready U) split to tlu' base into tAA'o nnri'ow convex and ratlnu' thick 
valves .... with one single unrijte blackish seed Avhicli is ten lines long, 
3 lines broad, lanceolat(', tapering at both ends, flat and membranous, 
bordered on one sidt^ Avith a sliglitly thickened neiwiform margin.” 3'his 
description refers to the endocarp of the fruit and not to the seed itself. 
Alueller, in describing the same s])eeies (S. linearis) refei’s to the ^SA'ings of 
the testa at the apex suddenly and obliquely obtuse, at the base gradually 
cusixidate; the keel of the investing membrane is seen at tlie margin of the 
fol]iclo.”t 
