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List of Plants collected during Mr. 

 TiETKENS' Expedition into Central 

 Australia, 1889. 



Ey Baron Sir F. von Mueller, F.R.S., &o., and Professor R. 

 Tate, F.L.S., &c. 



[Read April 1, 1890.] 



Last year Mr. Tietkens was placed in charge of a party by the 

 'Central Australian Exploring and Prospecting Company, Ade- 

 laide, to explore the MacDonnell Range and the country to the 

 west and south of it. The period of exploration embraced the 

 months of April to August, and the plants, which form the sub- 

 ject of this report, were collected by INIr. Tietkens and his assist- 

 ants during that time. 



As Mr. Tietkens' map and journal are not yet published the 

 .approximate position of each locality, referred to in this report, 

 here follows : — 



Proceeding northward from Charlotte Waters the localities 

 are : — 



Crown Point, on the River Finke, about 40 miles north of Char- 

 lotte Waters. 

 Horse-shoe Bend, 20 miles north of Crown Point. 

 Orraminna, 40 miles south of Alice Springs. 

 Emily Gap (in the MacDonnell Range), 8 miles south of Alice 



Springs. 

 JBurt Plain or the Table-land on the north of the MacDonnell 

 Range, the scarped front of which constitutes that range. 

 See East, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., vol. xii., p. 47, 1889. 

 JBonn Springs, 10 miles north-east of Alice Springs. 

 Painta Springs, 15 miles north-west of Alice Springs. 



Thence along the MacDonnell Range are : — 

 Mount Sonder, long. 132° 20', lat. 23° 35'. Mareena Bluff, 

 Mount Razorhack, Glens Helen and Fareivell being adjacent 

 thereto. 

 Clen Edith, long. 131° 10', lat. 23° 50'. 



Thence about west to the boundary line ^^'ith AYest Australia. 

 Watson Hills, about midway between Glen Edith and 

 GilVs Creek, in Cleland's Hills, long. 130^ 30', lat. 23° 48'. 

 "Sandstone Rocks," long. 129° 35', lat. 23° 50'. 

 Laura Vale, 6 miles from Mount Rennie, in long. 129° 15', lat. 

 23° 35'. 



