RY A. A. HAMlLTOX. 449 



L. LEPTOPETALUM F.V.M. 



The following extracts are taken from a letter aecompanyinii 

 a series of specimens, including the above, forwarded to the 

 National Herbarium for identification and report, by Mr. Walter 

 Gill, Conservator of Forests, South Australia: — "Herewith some 

 specimens which 1 found early this month (November) north 

 east of the Burra, about 70 miles in the dry district, with small 



uncertain rainfall Nos.47, /. Icptopetahim F.v. M., and 



48, Craiy.'itylis canocephala Sp. Moore, [l^luchea conocephala 

 F.V.M.) which, I find, are regarded as valuable fodder-plants by 

 the owner of the sheep-station on which T secured them.'' 



