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Saudy heath- ground ou the elevated central part of Dudley 

 Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, flowering in Xovember, B. Tate. 



Hakea Edxieaita. 



A tree of about twelve feet, with a somewhat hemispheric 

 outline ; branchlets and leaves clothed with short, appressed 

 s^ilky hairs. Leaves terete, once or twice bifid or trifid, rigid and 

 pungent-pointed ; the whole leaf usually under one and a half 

 inch long, the divided portion somewhat longer than its stalk- 

 like base. Flowers unknown ; inflorescence a short raceme 

 borne on a short axillary peduncle. Fruit one and a quarter 

 inch long, three-eights inch broad, nearly straight except in 

 the apical part, which is attenuated into a short upward-curved 

 beak. Seeds unknown, but the impressions in the interior of 

 fruit-valves indicate a smooth seed and a large wing. 



Sparsely distributed over the stony slopes of the Aroona. 

 Eaneje, bordering the Basin of Lake Torrens on the east. 

 B. Tate. 



When first observed by me, more than a year ago, the trees- 

 of the species were without flowers, and though my friend Mr. 

 Malcolm Murray has since then frequently visited them, yet 

 no advance to floral development has been made. Despairing 

 to obtain the desiderated floral organs, at least for some time- 

 to come, I have thought it advisable no longer to defer the- 

 publication of those characters which seem to entitle the plant 

 to specific rank ; and in doing so I have much pleasure in im- 

 posing on it one of the names of the Conservator of Forests, 

 Mr. J. Ednie Brown, F.L.S., whose " Forest Flora of South 

 Australia" claims some complimentary recognition by the' 

 systematic botanist. 



The protracted period intervening between the successive 

 blossomings of this species is not singular, as other arboreous 

 vegetation of this region exhibits the same phenomenon, 

 notably so Melaleuca glomerata, which flowered during the- 

 exceptionally dry summer of 1883 after an interval of at least 

 three years. 



H. Ednieana has the unique foliage of H. purpurea, but in 

 other particulars it seems to be markedly different. 



Stipa Muelleki. 

 Stems several feet long, wiry, slender, quite glabrous, with 

 erect branching flowering shoots, sometimes scrambling over 

 bushes. Leafless, except closed sheaths at the joints terminat- 

 ing in a small erect lamina, and membranous sheathing scales 

 at the base of the stem. Ligule very short, not ciliated. 

 Flowers racemose, of one, two, or three one-flowered spike- 

 lets on long filiform pedicels. Outer glumes exceeding one 

 inch, acute ; exterior glume purplish, inner green. Flowering. 



