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long, spreading. [A remarkable bush, owing to its shining 

 leaves and rich green.] 



EUPHORBIACEAE. 



Euphorbia Drummondii, Boiss. Ooldea. [This plant 

 was not nearly so plentiful as I have seen it further north.] 



Beyeria opaca, F. v. M. Ooldea. 



Adriana tomentosa, Gaud. Ooldea (Dist. W). Seeds not 

 quite ripe; ash-coloured and smooth. [Only seen in one 

 locality near the Ooldea condensers; bush, 2 feet tall.] 



Sapindaceae. 



II eterodendron oleif oleum, Desf. Ooldea. [This is a 

 large shrub, generally growing on the loamy flats.] 



Malvaceae. 



Lavatera plebeia, Sims, var. tomentosa, Hook f. A 

 maritime, dense-flowered variety, with pure white flowers and 

 a velvety tomentum, collected by Capt. S. A. White on 

 Althorpe Island, February, 1916. It grew rapidly in my 

 garden from seed, and in a year became a stout shrub, 1 m. 

 high, with a stem of 6 cm. diameter at base. It was certainly 

 biennial, and perhaps of much longer duration, but I had to 

 remove it. Professor Ewart informs me that it agrees closely 

 with specimens from Yorke Peninsula in the National Her- 

 barium of Victoria. Samples were submitted to Kew, and 

 the following reply was received : — "The Lavatera has been 

 identified with specimens at Kew from Port Fairy, Victoria 

 (R. Gunn), Trefoil Island, near Woolnorth, Tasmania (R. 

 Gunn), and King George Sound, Western Australia (Cun- 

 ningham, R. Brown, Drummond). These specimens are 

 named L. plebeia, Sims, in the 'Flora Australiensis,' but 

 they evidently belong to a distinct variety, if not a distinct 

 species, and it has now been ascertained that J. D. Hooker, 

 in Hooker's Journ. Bot., ii. (1840), p. 412, described a variety 

 tomentosa to which he referred Gunn's and Cunningham's 

 specimens, citing L. australis, Cunn., in Hook. Herb., as a 

 synonym." [Found growing between the granite rocks on 

 Althorpe Island. The light-colouration and thickness of the 

 leaves, also their softness, seemed remarkable.] 



Abutilon Fraseri, Hook. Sixty miles along East-West 

 Railway. Here, as in similar specimens from Arkaringa and 

 Mount Hopeless, there is some doubt as to the species, all 

 the flowers being male. [Growing on stony tablelands ; have 

 met with this plant in many •parts of the interior.] 



Hibiscus Pinonianus, Gaud. Three hundred and ninety-six 

 miles from Port Augusta along East- West Railway. Locally 



