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A handsome shrub of 2 metres high, hoary. Branches 

 round, hoary, with a fine tomentum wearing off in age, divar- 

 icate. Leaves 5-10 mm. long and 3-5 mm. wide, broad oblong 

 to ovate, sometimes broad at base, entire, obtuse, hoary, with 

 a very fine down of plumose hairs, midrib above and below 

 and often a few lateral veins, prominent, scattered, or in 

 clusters of 2 or 3, petiole very short. Flowers 1 to 3 in the 

 leaf clusters, almost sessile, sweet-smelling. Calyx tubular, 

 1*5 mm. long, investiture similar to the leaves; lohes very 

 short, obtuse triangular. Corolla white with three fine reddish 

 short longitudinal lines inside, tomentose outside, except 

 almost smooth near the base, glabrous inside; lobes oblong, 

 as long as the tube, spreading. Stamens 5, hardly exsert; 

 filaments dilated and pilose at the base. Ovary with a few 

 stellate hairs; ovules 2 to 3 in each cell, only one appears to 

 develop and is finely tuberculate. 



The new species is nearest to ^4. Blackii, F. v. M., but 

 differs from this and all other species of this genus in the 

 truncate calyx, the tomentose clothing, and rotate corolla. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. 



Plate XXXVIII. 



Antliotroc^ie truncata, n. sp. 1, Flower, viewed near the toii ; 

 2, flower, side view, showing calyx; 3, stamen, showing dilated 

 pilose filament. 



Plate XXXIX. 



Fig. 1. A new solanaceous plant (Anthotroche truncata, 

 n. sp.) growing on a sandhill at Ooldea showing habit. 



Fig. 2. Vegetation on a sand ridge at Ooldea showing 

 Eucalyptus transcontinentalis, Eremophila alternifolia, Olearia 

 Muelleri, Triodia irritans, and Westringia Dampieri. 



Plate XL. 



Fig. 1. Nullarbor Plain at Hughes showing the open forma- 

 tion of bluebush (Kochia seclifoliaj and saltbush f^Atriplex 

 vesicarium ). 



Fig. 2. At Ooldea Soak showing a carpet of Myriocephalus 

 Stuartii with Leptospermum laevigatum, var. minus, on the right. 



Plate XLI. 

 Fig. 1. Eucalyptus oleosa at Barton with prostrate trunks. 

 Fig. 2. Barton from a sand ridge with Thryptomene Elliottii 

 in the foreground, Casuarina lepidophloia and Eucalyptus below. 



Plate XLII. 



Fig. 1. Looking north of Tarcoola showing the stony, un- 

 dulating nature of the country. Acacia tarculensis and Trichinium 

 incanum in the foreground. 



Fig. 2. On the flats at Kingoonya. Minuria leptophylla in 

 the foreground with trees of Acacia Loderi and shrubs of Kochia 

 sedi folia in the middle distance. 



The photographs were taken by myself. 



