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these two plants may also be different, but those of G. Eatonice 

 are as yet unknown. 



G. Baxteri flowers already, when only a few inches high, then 

 being even of erect growth. Maxwell found it also at Cape Arid, 

 but it has not been refound at K. G. S., so that Baxter must have 

 gathered his plant farther eastwardly. As many as nine flowers 

 may be noticed at and near the summit of a branchlet; the 

 calyces are never quite glabrous nor sessile. 



G. amplexicaule and G. ovatum are not specifically distinct ; 

 the former is the best name of the two. Lake Muir, Porongorup 

 and Geographe-Bay (F. v. M.) Cape Leeuwin (Mrs. M'Hard), 

 Bremer-River (Webb). Semi-herbaceous ; leaves occasionally to 

 two inches long ; upper petal to nearly one-inch broad ; seeds 

 ellipsoid, pale-grey. On Stirling-Range I gathered a variety 

 with linear -lanceolar leaves. 



G. obcordcdmn, found at Boxvale by Miss Julia Wells, at Lake 

 Brown by Mr. E. Merrall. Leaflets usually cuneate and retuse, 

 but never really abcordate ; hence the specific name might be 

 changed into G. Turczaninoioii' ; stalklets occasionally very much 

 shortened. 



G. marginatum is sometimes fruit-bearing already at a finger's 

 length. Said to be poisonous. Geographe-Bay and Blackwood- 

 River (F. v. M.), Bremer-River (Webb), eastern sources of 

 Swan-River (Miss Eaton), Pallinup-River (Miss Cronin), between 

 Esperance-Bay and Fraser's Range (Dempster). 



G. aristahim, Serpentine River (F. v. M.) 



G. tomentosuiii, Upper Greenough- and Irvine-River, also 

 towards Shark's Bay and at Geographe-Bay (F. v. M.), Israelite- 

 Bay (Miss Brooks), Drummond's collection 202. The exact 

 relation of G. capitatttm, G. Preissii, and even G. burtonioides to 

 G. tomentosum requires yet to be better ascertained, I being 

 sceptic about their specific validity. 



G. visciduhwi, near Stirling's Range (Hon. J. Forrest), near 

 Fraser-Range (Dempster). Occasionally somewhat beset with 

 hairlets ; leaflets always repressed to the carinular line ; fruit 

 oblique-globular, hardly of quarter-inch measurement. 



G. Shuttleimrthii, Preston- Collie- and Blackwood-River (F. v 

 M.), Irvine-River (Mrs. Pries), near Mount Churchman (Young) 

 Flowers occasionally solitary, Maxwell collected on the Gordon- 

 River a variety with elongated flower-stalklets. A closely allied 

 plant, perhaps conspecific, was noticed by the writer on Mount 

 Blackwood, remarkable for having the leaves recurved at the upper 

 end ; the fruit of this always broader than long. 



G. venustum attains a height of 3 feet at Stirling-Range (l'\ v. 

 M.) ; occurs also on the Bremer-River (Webb), at Cape Leeuwin 



