Note on brachycome melanocarpa sonder.

I take this opportunity of placing on record the occurrence of Brachycome melanocarpa. Sonder et F. von Mueller as a native of Tasmania. It has as yet only been gathered on the eastern slope of Mount Wellington, in a damp locality at about 3,000 feet altitude, but probably occurs elsewhere, only its general resemblance to B. scapiformis, D.C., has caused it to be overlooked.
It has hitherto been recorded from South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland.
A tufted perennial, sending up annual flowering scapes of usually four to ten inches in height, as in B. scapiformis, it differs in being more extensively hirsute; the leaf has a long attenuated base or petiole, an obcuneate apex with usually seven bold dentures;the scape is coarser, with more leafy bracts, or commonly bears a gradually reduced series of foliage leaves, but these characters are not quite constant for either species.