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Ranges and 20 miles west of Lambinna Soakage. [Quite large 

 bushes were found in the dry sandy beds of watercourses; the 

 flowers had a beautiful scent like the cultivated species.] 



Verbenaceae. — Verbena o-fficinalis, L. Wantapella 

 Swamp. Carpels reddish-brown, with 4-5 longitudinal ridges 

 on the back. 



Labiatae. — Mentha aiistralis, R. Br. Neales Creek. 

 Teiicrium racemosum, R. Br. Forty miles west of Ood- 

 nadatta. 



SoLANACEAE. — Solanum ellijHicum, R. Br. Fifty miles 

 west of Oodnadatta ; Glen Ferdinand. [Not a common plant; 

 met with- in two localities.] S. Sturtianum, F. v. M. 

 Vaughan Hill. [Only met with in the one locality.] S. 

 'petro'philium, F. v. M. Mount Illbillie. [This was a common 

 plant in the Everard Range, growing low down amongst the 

 rocks.] Datiora Leichhardtii, F. v. M. Mount Illbillie. 

 Nicotiana suaveolens, Lehm. "Native Tobacco." Glen Fer- 

 dinand and 20 miles west of Lambinna Soakage. [A common 

 plant, growing near or in all the ranges, occasionally found in 

 the thick mulga or along watercourses; natives do not seem to 

 make any use of this plant.] 



Nicotiana suaveolens, Lehm., var. n. excelsior (tab. Ixx.). 

 Variat a fonnd typicd altitudine majore (1-2 m.), epidermide 

 fere glabra, foliis magnis in alas longas decurrentibus, calyce 

 25 mm. longo pilis glandulosis consperso, lobis lineari- 

 siibulafis ciliatus, corolla 5-6 cm. longd, capsidd vix tubum 

 calycis aequante, seminibus magnis foveolatis. "Giant 

 Tobacco." Mount Carmeena, Everard Range. Mentioned 

 by R. Helms in the report of the Elder Expedition (Trans. 

 Roy. Soc, S.A., xvi., 248, 293, 317, and 320). He says the 

 plant was called (in 1891) "okiri" by the Everard Range 

 tribe and "pulanda" by the Blyth Range tribe, but Capt. 

 White found that the natives of the Everard Range nov/ call 

 it "kaman," and Mount Carmeena was named after the 

 tobacco. Specimens collected by Helms, and similar to ours, 

 are placed in the Tate Herbarium under N . suaveolens, and 

 the plant is listed in Mueller and Tate's report without any 

 reference to its structural peculiarities, but it seems to me 

 to constitute at least a well-marked variety of this poly- 

 morphous species. It is noteworthy that ordinary specimens 

 of N . suaveolens brought from drier parts of the same region 

 and mentioned above do not approximate to var. excelsior at 

 all. They are short (not over 30 cm. high), small-flowered, 

 and with very hairy stems and pedicels. [There is not the 

 slightest doubt that this plant is a distinct variety of N .. 

 suaveolens. I collected specimens of the latter not far from 

 W'here the giant variety was growing. The natives roll the 

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