Flora of Australia. 299 



awiied fruits would be less obnoxious than tliose of Stipa. 

 The stems are, however, too hard to be of much use for fodder, 

 though softer and more slender in young plants. 



ScHOENus ODONTOCARPUS, F. V. M. (Cyperaceae). 



Lowden, Preston River, West Australia, Max Koch, Oct., 1909. 

 No. 19.37. 



SoLANUM NUMMULARIUM, 8peiicer le Moore (Journ. Linn. kSoc, 

 34, p. 205), = S. ORBICULATUM, Dun. (S(jlanaceae). 



This is a somewhat dwarfed form of the above species. The 

 characters relied on to distinguish it — rustiness of tomentum, 

 smaller flowers with narrower corolla lobes, smaller leaves, and 

 more pointed anthers — vary independently of each other on 

 certain specimens. The Elder exploring expedition specimens 

 from, Fraser Range and L. Deborah, have these characters 

 united, as in Spencer le Moore's specimen, and were placed by 

 Tate and also by Mueller under »S'. orhirulatum. That from the 

 Victorian Desert Camp, 54, has the rusty tomentum combined 

 with large leaves (up to 1 inch in length and breadth), and 

 large flow-ers, but relatively narrow corolla lobes. On most 

 specimens the leaves are less than h inch long. 



Stylidium alsinoiuks, Dv. Br., vai-. cordikolium. (Stylideae). 

 (PI. LVI). 



This plant has been considered by certain West Australian 

 botanists as a distinct species, on the basis of the following 

 features : — 



Branches, angled or winged, leaves cordate, or ovate and 

 sessile, the two lower calyx segments connate to above the 

 middle, and the segments of the corolla also more united. These 

 are, however, all independently variable characters, the most 

 marked tendency being to the sessile cordate leaves, thus justi- 

 fying the recognition of a variety with various intermediate 

 forms, but not of a distinct species. 



Various localities in West Australia, also in North Australia, 

 Port Darwin, M. Iloltze, 1890. No. 1171. And in North-West 



