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1 saves of this plant into a round ball and hold it betw&en 

 the lips, twisting and turning it round by means of the 

 tongue. Natives value the plant much, and when the camels 

 approached it became very excited and pulled up the plants 

 and placed them up on the rocks out of reach of the dreaded 

 animals.] 



ScROPHULARiACEAE. — FepUdium MueUeri, Benth. Fifty 

 miles west of Oodnadatta, July 1. Mostly in fruit, with a 

 few flowers. The capsules are ovoid but obtuse, not acute as 

 described in Fl. Aust., iv., 500, and in Tate's Handbook, 153. 

 When ripe they open in 4 valves from the the base. 

 Moorilyanna Native Well, July 7. In flower only. [Plen- 

 tiful in some localities, growing round claypans.] 



BiGNONiACEAE. — Tecoma Oxleyi, Cunn. Glen Ferdinand; 

 granite rocks near Moorilyanna Native Well. Usually placed 

 under T. a tt straits, R,. Br., but seems to be specifically dis- 

 tinguished by larger flowers (calyx 4-5 mm. long, corolla 

 25 mm. long, longitudinally red-streaked inside), leaflets 

 narrow and more numerous (7-9) and without any 

 gloss on the upper face. T. Oxleyi is a desert 

 plant growing in country with an average rainfall 

 of 5 to 10 inches, while T. oustralis grows in the eastern 

 coastal lands with a rainfall of 30 to 60 inches. [This is cer- 

 tainly not T . australis, for this plant grows in the most arid 

 situations and does not take the habit of that species. The 

 great bunches of flowers are very many times larger than 

 those of T. australis. Although it is often stated that the 

 natives make their spear-shafts from this plant, I did not see 

 any shoots fit for this purpose, nor did I see one instance 

 where the natives had cut any branches for that purpose.] 



AcANTHACEAE. — Justicia frocumhens, L. Glen Fer- 

 dinand. [Low bush, 10 or 12 inches high; not a common 

 plant.] 



Myoporaceae. — MyojJornm deserti, Cunn. Everard 

 Range, [Not a common tree: a few were met with in the 

 ranges attaining the height of 10 to 15 feet, and were in 

 fruit at the time of our visit.] Eremophila latifolia, F. v. M. 

 Moorilyanna Native Well. Young leaves and calyx very 

 sticky or glossy; leaves narrow and almost entire in our speci- 

 mens, which are in flower only (collected July 13). TA 

 number of large bushes of a very bright-green were growling 

 on the sheltered sides of the rocks.] E. neglect a, J. M. 

 Black. Indulkana Springs and 15 miles west thereof. Since 

 describing this species (Trans. Roy. Soc, S.A., xxxviii., 469) 

 I have seen the drawings of E . viscida, a Western Australian 

 species, in Mueller's "Myoporincus Plants of Australia," and 



