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and mav be referred to as the standard record of this region. It is 

 useful to South Australians in a special manner, and I make no apology 

 for insisting on its importance. 



VL— FLORULAS {h) FROM SPECIFIED LOCALITIES. 



(a) — Eremian Region. 



(^F.—C.—S.—W.—M.)Xi) 



F. 1. " Plants Indigenous to the Neighborhood of Hermannsburg 



on the Eiver Finke, Central Australia," bv Rev. J. (should be H.) 



Kempe, missionary. Read October 5th, 1880. (Proc. R.S., S.A.^ 



III., 129-137.) 



A list of nearly 162 species found in the vicinity of the Mission 

 Station, supplemented "with useful notes. 



2. In the paper by the same author, ■\^^th the same title (Proc. 

 U.S., S.A., V. 19-23)," 125 species are added, making a total of 287 

 collected from that district to date (February 7th, 1882). 



3. " Descriptions of Two New Species of Plants." Baron von Mueller 

 (Proc. R.S., S.A., IV., 112). Calotis Kempei and Thysanotus exilifloruSy 

 both from the Macdonnell Ranges. 



(The Rev. Hermann Kempe, Evangelical Lutheran minister at 

 Balaklava, South Australia, was born March 26th, 1844, at Deuben, 

 near Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Was theologically educated in the 

 Missions Institute of Hermannsburg, Hanover, Germany, from which 

 he was sent to South Australia to form a mission station on the River 

 Finke, Central Australia. He airived in Adelaide in 1875, and reached 

 the mission station in 1877. He stayed on the Finke River for 16 

 years, and left owing to broken health. Mr. Kempe informs me that 

 he sent 600 different plants to Mueller. Acacia Kempeana, F. v. M., 

 was named after him.) 



C. 1. Tate and Mueller record " List of Plant Species collected by 

 Mr. J. C. Chandler in the neighborhood of Peake, Central Australia.'^ 

 (Proc. R.S., S.A., v., 95.) 



2. "Plants of the Lake E\T:e Basin." Tate (Proc. R.S., S.A., 

 XL, 85-100). 



3. "A list of Plants collected on Mount Lvndhurst Run, South 

 Australia." Max Koch (Proc R.S., S.A., XXII.^, 101-18). 



A valuable list of plant:, collected over an area (Farina district) 

 extending over 200 square miles. The plants were named by Professor 

 Tate and myself. 



4. At pp. 81-5, vol. XXIV., Mr. Koch publishes a supplementary 

 list. 



5. " On some New or Little-known South Australian Plants." 

 Tate (Proc. R.S., S.A., XXIL, 119-21). Based on Max Koch's collec- 

 tions. Includes Corchorus longipes, n.sp. ; Acacia papyrocarpa, Benth. ; 

 Helipterum fnicroglossum, Tate. 



(h) The works referred to in the previous chapter have not been repeated. 

 (i) The nomenclature given in " Tate's Handbook," 1890, is here adoiJted. ^ 

 There do not appear to be papers specially dealing with S. 



