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II. List of the Species collected. 



In the following list I enumerate all the species which I have 

 collected during my short stays at the different places. This list 

 is of course very incomplete, and does not in any respect pretend 

 to give a full impression of the flora. 



It was rather difficult for me to identify the plants, as the 

 material at my disposal for comparison was very poor, and I was 

 not able, under the present circumstances, to visit the large her- 

 baria of Kew and London. Nevertheless I trust that the identi- 

 fications will in most cases prove to be correct, and I think that 

 the notes under many of the species may be useful for later wor- 

 kers on the flora of the tropical Western Australia. 



I have arranged the natural families according to Engler's 

 Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien, 7. ed., 1912. 



Gramineæ. 



Eragrostis Dielsii Pilger, in Engl. Botan. Jahrb. 35 (1904) 76; 

 Domin, Beitr. FL u. Pfl. Geogr. Austral I. 2 (1915) 391; E. falcata 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. VII (1878) 649, non Gaudichaud. 



Port Hedland, in dune depression near the coast (No. 1140, 

 3. Nov. 1914). 



The specimens collected seem to agree rather well with the 

 var. sciuras Domin (1. c, 392), but I have no authentic specimen 

 for comparison. 



Triodia sp., T. pungenti R. Br. affinis. 



Point Samson (Cossack), the characterising grass on a sandy 

 dune-like area, growing together with Scævola sericophylla. 



The specimens collected (No. 1139; 2. Nov. 1914) — and all 

 specimens seen — were past flowering and fruiting, and the pan- 

 icles contain mostly only empty outer glumes, rarely the lower- 

 most flower, and in no case a whole spikelet. The identification 

 is therefore only approximative. 



Spinifex longifolius R. Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. (1810) 198; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. VII (1873) 504. 



Point Samson (near Cossack) and Port Hedland, common 

 on the dunes near the shore. 



Moraceæ. 



Ficus indecora Miquol in Hook. Lond. Journ. VII (1848) 426; 

 F. orbicularis Benth. Fl. Austr. VI (1873) 175, ex parte. 



