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perianth is convex, showing an approach towards K . pura- 

 widafa. I would suggest calling this var. steUuhifa. K . 

 viUosa, Lindl. "Cotton Bush." Moorilyanna Native Well; 

 Flat Rock Hole, Musgrave Ranges : Wantapella Swamp ; 

 Lambinna Soakage. [Found in patches all through the 

 country, but very little west of Indulkana Springs. Good 

 fodder for all stock.] K. decaptera, F. v. M. Moorilyanna 

 Native Well. [Not a common plant in this locality; a few 

 bunches growing at the foot of the granite rocks.] K. 

 aphi/Ua, R. Br. Thirty-five miles west of Moorilyanna Native 

 Weil. K. eriantha, F. v. M. Indulkana Springs and 15 

 miles west thereof. There are some puzzling points about 

 these specimens and about similar ones received from, Arka- 

 ringa through Miss Staer. All the flowers I have examined 

 are feim.ale : even in the youngest I could find no sign of 

 stamens. The fruit is obliquely placed within the perianth 

 and the radicle is always descending. The horizontal wing 

 of the perianth has 5 broad lobes, hidden (as are also the 

 5 short lobes covering the fruit) among the dense wool. 

 Similar specimens collected by Helms in 1891 at Arkaringa 

 are in the Tate Herbarium labelled "Bassia DaJIach>/aua = 

 Kochia eriantha.'' [A common plant about Indulkana 

 Springs, but is not found far west from that point.] A triplex 

 vesicaria, Hew. "Bladder Saltbush." Forty miles west of 

 Oodnadatta; Indulkana Springs; Lambinna Soakage: 

 Moorilyanna Waterhole. [A common plant; many fine plains 

 are covered with this good fodder.] .4. ninnmidaria, Lindl. 

 Indulkana Springs. [Very large bushes of this plant were 

 often seen in the ranges.] .4. spongiosa, F. v. M. Fifty 

 miles west of Oodnadatta, and at Oodnadatta. [This plant 

 ■does not extend very far west of Oodnadatta.] Rhagodia 

 spinescens, R. Br. Fifty miles west of Oodnadatta. Fh. 

 nutans, R. Br. Everard Range; Moorilyanna Native Well. 

 [Not often found; generally growing up in the shelter of 

 some other plant, and made conspicuous by its bright red 

 berries.] Bassia quinquecuspis, F. v. M., var. rdlosa, Benth. 

 Wantapella Swamp. B. Birchii, F. v. M. Glen Ferdinand. 

 Agrees with specimens in the Tate Herbarium of B. Cor- 

 nishiana, F. v. M., which was afterwards reduced to a variety 

 of B. Birchii. The fruiting perianth, however, resembles 

 rather that of B. echinopsila in the illustrations of Mueller's 

 "Salsolaceous Plants" than that sfiven for B. Birchii. The 

 2 shorter spines of the 5 are united towards their base, and 

 the summit and tube of the perianth are sharply ridged 

 between them. [A quantity of this bush was growing in the 

 glen.] B. longiciispis, F. v. M. Fifty miles west of Oodna- 

 datta. Fruiting perianth broad and gibbous at base, 2-lobed 



