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says: — '"Fruiting perianth very flat, clothed with long soft 

 hairs, scarcely 2 lines diameter, including the annular wing." 

 Mueller, in his "Key to the System of Victorian Plants" 

 (1885-8), says: — "Fruiting perianth much depressed, ex- 

 panded into a hard, horizontal, lobeless margin." All these 

 are good descriptions of K. ciliata, but do not cover K. 

 coronata. The first notice taken of the latter species is in 

 plate 58 of Mueller's "Iconography of Australian Salsolaceous 

 Plants" (1889). In this plate (drawn by R. Graff), the 

 branch on the right, figs. 1 and 6, and the right-hand 

 perianth of fig. 7 represent K. coronata. The complete plant 

 in the centre of the plate, and the left-hand perianth of 

 fig. 7, represent A', ciliata. Helms' specimen of K. coronata 

 from Cootanoorinna Creek shows the whole plant, which 

 stands about 15 cm. high, with one short erect stem and 

 numerous branches. 



PORTULACACEAE. 



Anacampseros australiana, sp. nova ftah. x.). Suf- 

 frutex succulentus glaber, rhizomate carnoso tuberifero, 

 caule brevi, rands procumbentibus rubellis, foliis, ovato- 

 lanceokctis confetti* crassis 15-25 mm. Jongis 5-10 mm. laiis, 

 pilis stipularibus brevibus, floribus paucis, etia/n in sole vix 

 hiantibus, pedicellis longis basi bibracteatis, j>et<dis obovatis 

 roseis tenuissimis in sepalis inehisis, staminibus circiter 10, 

 antheris flavis oblongis, capsula oblongd 8-9 mm. lone/ci, 

 epicarpio chartaceo S-valvi ad basin secedente, mesocarpio 

 indurato in circiter 1.2 nereis set if arm ih as parallel is consist - 

 trite quorum 3-4 nervi ramosi ad quamque valvam mem- 

 branaceam endocarpii adhaerent et 3 nerri simplices et liberi 

 cum valvis alternant, seminibus dorso rotundatis tuberculatis. 



This curious little plant was found by Miss J. Mills on 

 a rocky hillside at Woolshed Flat, in the Flinders Range,, 

 between Quorn and Port Augusta, in August, 1913. Dr. 

 Angas Johnson also received specimens from a resident of 

 Quorn, and he believes that they came from the ranges near 

 Blinman. It grows easily in a pot — even a branch which 

 has been severed for more than a month will throw out 

 roots — so that it has been possible to keep it under observa- 

 tion. A naccempseros is a genus hitherto limited to Cape 

 Colony, and as our plant does not agree with any described 

 species, it must be considered indigenous to Australia. The 

 new species might be placed in the section Telephiastrum of 

 Anacampseros, were it not that the seeds are rounded on the 

 back and neither winged nor angled. The African species 

 are said to open their flowers wide in the sun, but I have 

 never seen the sepals of A . australiana open more than half- 

 way, and usually they appear not to open at all, and the 



