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Plants Indigenous to the Neigh- 

 bourhood of Hermannsburg, 



ON THE EIVEE EINKE, CENTRAL AUSTRALIA. 



By the Rev. J. Kempe, Missionary. 



[Communicated by Baron F. von Mueller, K.C.M.G., F.R.S., &c, 

 Hon. Memb.] 



[Read October 5, 1880.] 



Introductory Note by Baron F. von Mueller. — I had named the 

 sjiecies of the following list of plants from Mr. Kempe's suc- 

 cessive collections. As a constituted whole it gives a good idea 

 of the vegetation of the mission locality. Next year a second 

 list will be given. Mr. Kempe writes — " If rain should fall 

 in summer, then nearly all species of flowering plants, even 

 most of the shrubs, commence to blossom a second time. The 

 maximum temperature is in the shade 120° E., and the minimum 

 is 27° E." 



DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



Crucifer^. 



Lepidium papillosum, E. M. ; L. plilebopetalum, E. M. ; L. 

 ruderale, Linne. All annuals, widely dispersed over 

 the whole country, and blooming in August. 



Stenopetalum nutans, F. 31. ; an annual. 



Erysimum lasiocarpum, F. M. ; an annual, growing in shady 

 places only, particularly under shrubs ; flowers in August. 



Capparide.e, 



Capparis spinosa, Linne and C. MitcJielli, Lindley ; both peren- 

 nial shrubs. The latter attains to a height of 10 to 

 12 feet, whilst C. spinosa, the true caper-plant, is a some- 

 what trailing shrub, growing up and near the ranges, even 

 on the most arid and deserted places. The month of 

 November is the usual time of blooming, but C. spinosa 

 is blooming and bearing fruit nearly all the year, even in 

 winter. 



Cleome viscosa, Linne, is annual, which grows only on stony 

 places. 



