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species needs still further to be investigated ; the development of 

 seedlings from the earliest stage should also be watched. 

 Possibly hybrid forms may naturally occur, not yet recognized as 

 such, and so it may be in numerous others of large Australian 

 genera. 



D. HUMILIS. 



Wimmera-Desert (D'Alton), Kangaroo-Island (Prof. Tate), 

 Fowler's-Bay (Mrs. Richards). 



Young branchlets beset with minute hairlets. 



D. LARREOIDES. 



Near Sharks-Bay (F. v. M.), Mount Churchman (J. Young). 



D. IN^QUIFOLIA. 



Near Champion-Bay (F. v. M.), Mount Churchman (Young). 

 Leaflets to ^-inch long, rarely indented at the upper end. 

 Dissepiments very small, persistent to the columellar axis. 



D. TENUIFOLIA. 



Warrego (Mrs. Spencer). 



D. MICROZYGA. 



Lachlan-River (Duff), Pedinga (Mrs. Richards), Eyre's-Creek 

 (Kayser), Musgrave-Range (Giles), Fraser's-Range (Dempster) j 

 closely allied to the preceding species. 



D. STENOZYGA. 



Western end of the Great Bight (Carey), Yorke's Peninsula 

 (Tepper). 



Sepals slightly ciliolated, hardly shorter than the stamens ; 

 anthers glabrous, apiculated. 



D. BORONIFOLIA. 



Hume's-River (F. v. M.), Cudgeyong-River (Jones), Black- 

 Range, near the Wimmera (D'Alton), Grampians (Sullivan). 



D. PHYSOCARPA. 



Gilbert- and Daintree-River (Armit), Hodgkinson- and Nor- 

 man-River (Gulliver). 



D. POLYZYGA. 



King's Sound (Froggatt). 



D. MEG AZ VGA. 



Seeds turgid, somewhat shining, estrophiolate. To this allied 

 D. Madagascar iensis (Radlkofer, in " Abhandl. des Natur. Hist." 

 Vereins von Bremen, viii., 470, 1883). 



During a ramble along the Kooyong Creek, Oakleigh, on the 

 15th ult., I was somewhat surprised to see hanging by its claws 

 (as I thought) to a sharp-pointed limb of a gum-tree, about 20 

 feet from the ground, a specimen of the Ring-tailed Opossum, 

 but upon closer observation I found that such was not the case, 

 but that the unfortunate beast had in its flight become impaled by 

 its pouch, thereby causing death. Perhaps it was a case of 

 suicide through family troubles, as on examination I found the 



