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Additions to the Flora of Extra-Tropical 

 South Australia, including Descriptions 

 OF T^wo New Species. 



By PEorEssoR Ralph Tate, F.Gt.S., P.L.S., &c. 

 [Read October 6, 1885.] 



Dtsphania siMULAisrs, F. von. 3ficeUer and Tate. 



Erect, stemless or very sliort stems or brandies from tlie root, 

 densely beset witb sliort glandular bairs ; leaves conspicuously 

 stalked, ovate-oblong, cuneate at tbe base, wavy at tbe margin 

 or bluntly sbort-lobed ; flowers in elongated leafless, dense, 

 simple spikes ; segments of tbe calyx tbree, somewbat scarious, 

 inflated, prominently angular in front and at tbe margin, 

 pointed at tbe summit, closing valrularly togetber over tbe fruit, 

 tbe lateral angles membranous, not fringed ; tube of tbe calyx 

 semiovate, papillular ; stigmas two, subtle-capillary ; fruit 

 spberical, pale-brown, smootb, translucent ; embryo nearly 

 semicircular. 



G-ypsum, salt-flats, Cootanoorinna, on tbe west side of Lake 

 Eyre ; Malcolm Murray. 



Tbis plant simulates in a remarkable manner tbe D. planta- 

 ginella, F. v. 31., so mucb so, tbat witbout careful inspection it 

 migbt be passed for tbat species ; but tbe leaves are provided 

 witb slender stalks and sinuated margins, tbe flowers are 

 larger and not so readily falling ofF in age, tbe bracts less de- 

 veloped, tbe segments of tbe calyx are almost deltoid, not 

 obovate, not tbinly attenuated, but connate into an almost 

 bemispberic base, wbicb partly- encloses tbe fruit ; tbe latter 

 is broader, not ovate, tbe rapbe forming a broad dark-brown 

 band. Some approacb of tbe genus Dysphania to tbe section 

 Orthosjporum of Clienopodium is establisbed by tbis species, as 

 will be noticed by a close comparison of C. atriplicinum and 

 particularly C. cristaticm. 



Teiai^thema tuegidieolia, F. v. M. ; Frag. X., p. 83, 1876. 

 Interior. F. v. M., in 2nd Supplt. Census Aust. Plants. 



Oeotalaeia Mitchelli, Bentham. Strzelecki Creek. James 

 Macleod ! 



LoEANTHFS GIBBEEULrS, Tate. 



Brancbes and foliage boary-tomentose ; inflorescence woolly- 

 tomentose. Leaves alternate or nearly opposite, terete, stout, 

 erect, mostly two incbes long. Elowers axillary, pedicellate. 



