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JUNCACEJE. 



Xerotcs leucocephala, R. Br. 



GRAMINEiE. 



Andropogon sp., perennial confined to the ranges. 

 Pappophorum commune, F. M., annual, only in the ranges. 

 Festuca irritans (the Spiuifex of colonists) ; is the real plague 

 of the country ; it grows everywhere. 



ACOTTLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



FlLICES. 



Cheilanthes vellea, F. M., perennial, growing on rocks ouly. 



DIAGNOSES OF 



New Species of Plants Discovered 

 in South Australia. 



Translated and communicated by Stirling Sjieaton, B.A., 



Associate. 



[Bead October 5, 1880.] 



Justicia Kempeana. F. v. M., Fragmenta Phyfcograpliiae Australia^ 

 vol. xi., p. 101. (Ord. Acanthacese) . 



Very thinly pubescent, herbaceous, leaves small, circular or 

 obovate and wedge-shaped, crenately dentate, or almost entire ; 

 flowers axillary solitary, or more rarely almost sessile in twos 

 and threes ; bracts herbaceous, leaf -like ; calyx five-cleft,, 

 below narrow-lanceolate, above lineas-subulate, the lips of the 

 projecting corolla about double the calyx and equal to its own 

 tube ; the lower lip shortly trifid ; the stamens projecting 

 from the throat of the corolla, one cell of the anthers shortly 

 spurred, the style and ovary smooth ; capsule much stipitate ; 

 seeds warty and rough. 



Near the MacDonnell Range — Rev. H. Kempe. In the 

 neighbourhood of the Ashburton River and between the 

 Gascoyne and Murchison Rivers — E. Giles. 



A perennial herb, one foot and a half high, or shorter. 

 Branches thickly covered with appressed hairs. Leaves 

 shortly petiolate, oblong, and wedge-shaped ; upper ones 



