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Notes on and Additions to the Flora of 

 Kangaroo Island. 



Bv J. G. O. Teppee, E.L.S. 

 [Read November 4, 1886.] 



The "Botany of Kangaroo Island," by Professor E.Tate, 

 F.G-.S., &c., was the first work giving an authentic and com- 

 prehensive list of the flora of the island (Trans. YI., 116-171). 

 This was published in 1883. Various additions have been made 

 from time to time and published in the Transactions of the 

 Eoy. Soc, S.A. 



The first-named work enumerates 415 species, of which 11 

 were considered as peculiar to the island. The additions 

 referred to, after rejecting varieties, &c., comprehended 43 

 species, thus raising the sum total to 458, and augmenting the 

 endemic species to 12. 



The following list adds 70 species, of which four are new to 

 science, and several to the province, besides five varieties that 

 may be fairly ranked as species. The number is therefore now 

 increased to 526 in all. These additional plants were obtained 

 through the kind hospitality of Mr. Hy. A. Harpur, then 

 manager, now lessee, of Karatta Station, situated on the banks 

 of the Stunsailboom Eiver, and about seven miles from its 

 mouth. 



The plants peculiar to the island enumerated in the 

 "Botany," 1883, were— 



1. Cheirantliera volulilis, Bentham. 



2. JBei'fya rotundifoJia, F. v. M. 



3. LliotzJcya glaherrinia^ F. v. M, 



4. Melaleuca cylindrica, E. Br. 



5. Cryptandra WaterJiotisei, F. v. M. 



6. " Tiahnafurma, F. v. M. 



7. PeiropliUa omdtisecfa, F. v. M. 



8. Selichryswm adenopliorum, F. v. M. 



9. AclinopJiora Tatei, F. v. M. 



10. Fidten(Pa viscidula, Tate. 



11. Hydrocotyle crassinscula, Tate. 



Of these, Xo. 8 has to be withdrawn, as the writer found it in 

 January of 1887 near Coonalpyn, in the so-called jS'inety-mile 

 Desert. On the other hand, Xanthorrhoea Tateana, F. v. II., 

 at first mistaken for X. quadrangidaris, until the writer 

 pointed out some of the differences (see Transactions, voL 



