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Resedaceae. 

 *Reseda luteola, L. "Dyer's Weed." Tantanoola. 

 Europe and countries round the Mediterranean. Not pre- 

 viously reported. 



Leguminosae. 



Acacia linopkylla, W. V. Fitzg., in Journ. W. Austr. 

 Nat. Hist. Soc, May, 1904, p. 16. Wilgena, flowering, June, 

 1912 (J. W. Mellor) ; Mount Gunson, beginning to fruit, 

 October, 1915 (Mrs. Beckwith) ; Mount Gunson, flowering, 

 August, 1916 (Mrs. Beckwith) ; Ooldea, fruiting, January, 

 1917 (S. A. White). First record for South Australia; the 

 type came from Cue and Mount Magnet, Western Australia. 

 The identification (made by Mr. J. H. Maiden from Western 

 Australian specimens) was rendered certain when the curious 

 cylindrical, woody pods were found at Ooldea. The phyllodes 

 of this Mulga are scarcely distinguishable from those of the 

 narrow-leaved forms of A. aneura and A. brachystachya 

 except by their greater length, which is sometimes 18 cm. ; 

 they are slightly compressed and about \\ mm. broad. 

 Flowers (not seen by Fitzgerald) pentamerous, in spikes 15-20 

 mm. long, on spreading peduncles about 6 mm. long ; 

 bracteoles tack -shaped ; sepals linear-spathulate; petals 

 pubescent, thickened towards the summit, at first cohering, 

 afterwards free (see pi. xviii.). Some of our pods are con- 

 siderably longer than those described by Fitzgerald, two of 

 them being 12| cm. long. [This is the most plentiful species 

 of Mulga to be found in the sandhills round Ooldea. I feel 

 sure this species extends as far north as the Everard and Mus- 

 grave Ranges, but, in spite of all efforts, could not discover 

 seed-pods when I visited that region in 1914. This was owing 

 to a many years' drought.] 



Acacia Ran del liana, W. V. Fitzg., I.e., p. 14. Ooldea, 

 fruiting, January, 1917 (S. A. White). This is another new 

 record for South Australia, the original specimens being from 

 Mount Malcolm and near Kanowna, Western Australia. The 

 moniliform pods bear a considerable resemblance to those of 

 .4. Burkittii, F. v. M..,v but are not quite so long, and the 

 globular seeds with a very prominent umbo form a distinctive 

 feature, as well as the two-edged phyllodes, which are, in our 

 specimens, broader and shorter than those of A. Burkittii. 

 In the latter species the seed is compressed-ovoid, 6-7 mm. 

 long, while in .4. Randelliana the seed is globose and about 

 5 mm. in diameter. The flowers are the same, except that the 

 petals of A. Randelliana are lacking in the slight pubescence 

 at the base. In both cases the phyllodes are delicately ciliate 

 towards the summit, but those of A. Burkittii have a distinct 

 gland not far from the wrinkled base, and this is absent or 



