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Frutex humanae altitudinis, folia "2-3 poll, longa, lJ-2 rai'o 3 lin. lata, costa utriiique [p. 124] 

 distincta nee tamen prominens, venae obtectae. Pedunculi 1-1^ lin. longi ; flores subs&ssiles. Calyci.s 

 tubus 1 lin. longus. — E. viminali proxinia, foliis angustioribus et operculo acutiore et longioi'e differt. 

 Stirpes Novo-HoUandas a Ferd. Miillero collectas determinavit, F, A. G. Miquel. {Nederlandsch Krtiid- 

 kiindig Archie/, iv, 1859, p. 123.) 



2. E. desertorum, Naudin, 2u(i Mem., p. 56. 



Copy of a label in Herb. Mus., Paris : " Ei(calt/2)fi(s desertorum, Naudin, 

 (fragments do I'cxemplaire typique). Originaire des deserts de I'Australie interieure. 

 Cult. i\ la Villa Thuret, Antibes (Alpes Maritimes) . M. Naudin, 18S9." A shrub, 

 flowering abundantly the third year from seed. It is E. uncinata, Turcz. 



RANGE. 



It has been recorded from all the States except Tasmania and Queensland. 

 It is a dry-country species, and one does not expect it to be found in Tasmania, but 

 it is certainly worth looking for in Queensland — say at the extremest south-Avestern 

 8,iiglej near the New South Wales-South Australian border. 



Western Australia. 

 We know it from Fremantle, the York district, on the Great Southern 

 Railway {e.g., Tambcllup), and many places near the south coast, on the eastern 

 gold-fields, and as far west as Tammin. Then we have a few localities connecting 

 with the Murchison. But it is obvious Ave have many connecting localities to find 

 yet, so that we cannot define its range. 



Pollowiug are some specific localities : — 



"Thin-leaved Mallee," Subiaco Beach, near Fremantle (Dr. J. B. Clcland) ; 

 erect bushy shrub, 5-8 feet high, rocky ground, limestone hills, 3 miles south of 

 Fremantle (W. V. Fitzgerald). 



The folloAving specimens from southern localities have the pedicels absent or 

 very short : — ■ 



Shrub of 6-9 feet, Tambcllup (Dr. L. Dicls, No. 2,313). Kalgan Plains, in 

 bud, only a flower or two, also in fruit; narrow leaves ; juvenile leaves glaucous; 

 a round-headed, many-stemmed shrub of a few feet, with red Inids ; sometimes a 

 spindly, rather erect shrub (J.H.M.) ; Cape Riche ( Dr. Diels, No. 3,464) ; Decside, 

 Lake Muir, a coarse form, some leaves Avith a bluish-green cast (A. Muir) ; Israelite 

 Bay (Miss S. Brooke). 



Shrub of al)out 8 feet. Cut Hill, York, on ironstone (O. 11. Sargent, Nos. 427 

 and 429). 



