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Peplidium humifusum. Near Charlotte "Waters. Kempe. 



Utricularia lateriflora. Near Grlenelg River. F. v. M. 



Eremophila denticulata. Near Eucla. Bate. 



Acianthus caudatus. Kangaroo Island. Tepper. 



Crinum angustifolium. Near McDonnell Range. 



Triodia Mitchelli. Near McDonnell Eange. 



Nitella microphylla, Al. Braun — named by Dr. Nordstedt. 



Onkaparinga River. Tepper. 

 Cladophora crispata. St. Vincent Gulf. Tepper. 

 Physcomitrium repens, C. Mueller. Spencer G-ulf . 



Description of a New Corchorus from 

 Central Australia. 



By Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M. & Ph.D., F.R.S. 



[Read September 7, 1886."; 



Corchorus Elderi. 



Somewhat shrubby, upright, much branched, thinly starry- 

 tomentose ; leaves small, almost oblong, or some merging into 

 an ovate form, crenate-serrulated, above soon glabrescent ; 

 flowers minute ; peduncles usually very short or obliterated ; 

 pedicels one — three, soon longer than the flowers, scantily star- 

 hairy; calyx while unexpanded nearly globular; petals hardly 

 exceeding the calyx ; stamens twenty or fewer ; style ex- 

 tremely short; fruit small, ovate-globular, four — five-valved r 

 outside densely setular-andstarry-tomentose ; seeds five — three 

 or rarely two — one in each cell. 



In the region north of MacDonnell Range, found by Lieut. 

 Dittrich during Mr. Lindsay's expedition. 



Habit not unlike that of C. hirsulus; height, one — two feet ; 

 leaves short-stalked, half — one inch long, somewhat crisped ; 

 stipules and bracts wiry, short, setaceous-linear ; peduncles 

 occasionally lengthening to half an inch ; flowers only one- 

 sixth cr one-fifth inch long ; calyx deciduous, slit in its upper 



