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MR. SrKNCKK MOORE: A CONTRIBUTIO.N 



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The plants of ('uptain Sturt, a name perhaps better known now in 



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of an explorer, were collected during his second ex[)edition into the Interior 

 of Soutli Australia, 1844-6. As examined by Robert Brown, tlie collection 

 comprised only about a hundred species, of which Brown described six iind 

 twenty* A large pro[K)rtion of those left unnoticed wore too unsatisfactory 

 for description ; but liore and there "will be found a specimen sufficiently 

 good for naming, and very occasionally so, as a new species, of which 

 statement an instance will be piven heie^fter (vide p. 210). 



II. Some New ou Raee West Australian Plants 



from the recent Collections of Dr. F, Stoivard and Ah\ J. E, C. Jlfavf/on. 



(Plate 12. A). 



Dr. F, Stowardj of Leederville, near Perth, has sent from time to time a 

 large number of specimens to the Museum. His range of opportunity has 

 been extensive, and the result o£ his efforts is coriespondingly important. 

 The chief localities are Kununoppin, 130 miles E. by N. from Perth, 

 Nung;irin, Bruce liock, Mount Marshall, AVongan Hill?, and Cowcowing, 

 the three last from 100 to 150 miles N.E. from the capital, besides places 

 on or near the railway to Southern Cross and a ft'W farilier south, lu 



addition he sends from liis herbariun 



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Brown at Kauring, near Greenhills*. Althougli much smaller than the 



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from Mulline with a few from Mount 



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species, one of which, the remarkable BelUda major^ will be found described 



and figured in the 



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sequence of natural orders^ it nuiy be added, followed in this niemior, is that 

 of the ' Flora Australiensis,' a linear sequence in the present statn of our 

 knowledge being thought preferable to more andjitlous arrangenuiuts based 

 upon a highly speculative l>hylogeny, 



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ITtbulutlv (§ Uemistemma) pullula, sp* nov. Yorisimiliter siiffrutex 

 creLro ramosus, raniU subteretibus cortico cinerco in longitudinem exuto 

 glabro cinctis ; /j/i?5 parvis sessilibiis lineaii-oblongis obtusis aj)iCH paruni 

 recurvi>s mariiino arcto revolntis secus margintMn falsum tubcrculatis ccterum 

 glabris ; fi>nhus ad apicem ramulorum solitariis pedunculatis pedunculis 

 gliil)ris folia suba>quantibus ; sepalis ovatis vel oblongo-ovatis obtusis nisi 



obtuse acutis concavis dorso carinulatis glabris ; fetalis sepala excedentibns 

 obcordatis ; stamhiihus 10 anthcris obtusis cum staminodiis lineari-spathnlatis 

 vix totidem conversatis ; carpelUs 2 lanatis, 2-OYulatis. 

 Ongerup district ; Stotcard^ 842^ 843. 



* The Stuward luniiberSj it slKUild be noted, refer only to Musoinn mnterial. Llnilical sj^onrR 

 will ortcii be fouaJ at Kow under LinuLlicr luiuiLcr and difTerent species under the same number. 



