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Miscellaneous Contributions 



NATURAL HISTOEY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 



Edited by Professob Tate, Director of the Natural Science 

 Correspondence Department. 



BOTAXY. 



Addittoxal locatittes or Acacias known already from South 

 Australia. By Baron Sir F. von Mueller. 



Acacia minutifolia, Acacia patens?, and Acacia tetragono- 

 phylla ; Finke River {Hev. If. Kempe). 



Acacia colletioides ,{A.. nyssophylla). Near Fowler's Bay 

 {Mrs, Bichards); between the Elizabeth River and Ooldea 

 (Jesse Younrj). 



Acacia strongylophylla. Finke River {Bev. H. Kempe). 

 Nearest to A. pyrifolia. 



Note on the occurrence of Eriociiilus fimbriatus in South 

 Australia. By Baron Sir F. von Mueller. 

 Through the circumspect and continued searches for plants 

 instituted by Mr. Otto Tepper many additional plants from 

 South Australia became recorded, and now he has afforded the 

 means of adding a highl3^-remarkable orchid found by him quite 

 recently in the vicinity of Clarendon. It is the same plant of 

 which i saw leaves on the Onkaparinga Ranges in 1848, and in 

 two or three of the subsequent years ; but I noticed the plant 

 only very scantily, and did not succeed in ever obtaining a 

 flower. This I had occasion to state in a note before the Vic- 

 torian Field Naturalists' Club, at its last meeting, when flowering 

 specimens collected by Messrs. French and Luehmann in heath 

 ground at Port Phillip were exhibited. This orchid escaped 

 notice because it is one of the earliest harbingers of the spring, 

 and produces blossoms at a time when excursions are seldom 

 made in search of flowering plants. It is, however, known 

 since many years from AVest Australia — Professor Lindley 

 already, in 1839, having described it as Leptoceras fimbriatum 

 (and also L. pectinatum) from Mr. Drummond's collections. 

 Subsequently it was, as indicated by others previously, joined 

 to Caladenia ; but it is anomalous in that genus, being devoid 

 of the glands on the upper side of the labellum ; it accords 



