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and have sessile fruits («, sessiliflora Buchenau), others are more 

 slender and have pedunculate fruits (ß, pedunculata Buchenau, 

 see PI. IV, Fig. 7). On the whole the species seems somewhat 

 variable. 



I have collected it near the Yallingup Gave House (No. 141; 

 26. Sept. 1914) and have seen specimens from other places in 

 West Australia, as well as from New South Wales and Victoria. 



2. Triglochin Stowardii N. E. Brown, Kew Bull. (1914) 189. 

 Of this species I have only seen a poor specimen (PL IV, Fig. 11), 



kindly sent me by Prof. A. J. Ewart. It is part of the type 

 collection. Evidently this species is very close to T. calcitrapa. 

 It has the same filiform leaves and the shape of the fruit is not 

 much different ; further, the two species have in common the well- 

 developed basal spurs of the fruit and also the even tapering of 

 the fruit from the base towards the apex; but the fruit is much 

 larger and longer (about 15 mm) and more linear, and the curved 

 spur is shorter. 



Up to now it is only known from the type locality : Bever- 

 ley, W. A. (leg. F. Stoward 1913). 



3. Triglochin turrifera (Luehm.) A. J. Ewart, Victorian Naturalist, 

 23 (1906) 43; T. centrocarpa, var. turrifera Luehmann; T. calcitrapa 

 Ewart, Victorian Nat., 24 (1907) 60. 



I have not had access to the two literature references quoted, 

 but Prof. A. J. Ewart has kindly given them in a letter, and has 

 further sent me specimens so named from Taylor's Creek, Wim- 

 mera, Victoria (J. P. Eckert 1898; PL IV, Fig. 10), and another 

 specimen of just the same form, but named T. centrocarpa from 

 Little Desert, County of Lowan, Victoria (F.M. Reader, 1892; PL IV, 

 Fig. 9). These specimens show that Victoria possesses a well marked 

 species which has not hitherto been found outside this state. 



No doubt it is related to T. calcitrapa, but widely differing 

 by the linear, flaccid leaves and the shape of the fruit. This is 

 short (3,5—4 mm), pyramidal with an abruptly set apical cone, 

 not pyramidal-linear tapering evenly from base towards apex ; 

 further the basal spurs are shorter and not curvate. 



4. Triglochin centrocarpa Hook., Icon. pl.VIII (1845), tab. 728; 

 Buchenau, Pflanzenreich (1903) 13; T. nana F.v. Müller, Trans. Vic- 

 toria Instit. 1 (1854) 135, et Hooker's Journ. of Bot. VIII (1856) 

 332; Buchenau, 1. c, 12. 



Buchenau keeps T. centrocarpa Hook, and T. nana F. v. Müll, 

 as two distinct species, but I must agree with Bentham (FL Austr. 



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