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Psoralen patens, Lindl. Mirra Mitta Creek. [This 

 common plant was growing in great abundance along the 

 creeks and lakes.] P. eriantha, Benth. Between Innamincka 

 and Kanowana. [Bushes up to 2 feet in height, and covered 

 in blossom were found growing in the sandhills.] 



Swainsona campylantha, F. v. M. Strzelecki Creek, 

 near Innamincka ; Mount Hopeless ; Devils Village, near 

 Mount Lyndhurst. Bentham appears to have seen only the 

 very young pod, which he describes as 'sessile and glabrous." 

 The ovary is almost sessile, but is silky-pubescent (as has 

 been already noted by Mueller, Fragm., iii., 46). The half- 

 ripe pods on our specimens have attained a length of 25 mm., 

 are becoming glabrous, are ripening only 2-3 seeds, and taper 

 at the base into a stipes of 4-5 mm. The standard is not 

 orbicular, but always considerably broader than long. The 

 specimens from Devils Village are only 15 cm. high. [Met 

 with in many localities, and varies in height according to 

 richness of soil ; those plants found in watercourses reach 

 4 or 5 feet high, while on poor stony soil only a few inches.] 

 S. phacoides, Benth. Between Innamincka and Kanowana ; 

 Lake Blanche. [Met with in many localities : strange to say, 

 in nearly every instance the leaves had dropped off or had 

 been eaten off by insects, leaving the bare flower-stems.] S. 

 procumbens, F. v. M. Mount Hopeless. A small, apparently 

 erect form, with about 9 leaflets, keel twice as long as wings, 

 and the spirally-twisted style at least twice as long as the 

 ovary. S. oligophylla, F. v. M. Strzelecki Creek, south-west 

 of Innamincka. [This seems to be a stunted species growing 

 in small clumps.] S. micro phylla, A. Gray. Tinga-tingana ; 

 Caraweena. [Not a common plant ; found in one or two 

 places in the sandhills; grows to 12 or 18 inches high.] At 

 Farina was collected a puzzling specimen, with the small 

 flowers of S. lessertiifolia but a thicker style, 7 blunt linear 

 leaflets, like some forms of S. phaci folia, but narrow stipules. 



Crotalaria Cunninghamii, R Br., n. var. trifoliolata. 



Variat foliis nonnullis t/xfoliola/is. "Stuart Pea." Strzelecki 

 Creek. The discovery of this variety proves that C . Cunning- 

 hamii, like C. dissitiflora , may have either 1 or 3 leaflets. Our 

 specimen shows only the upper part of the stem : the upper- 

 most leaf consists of 1 leaflet, the next 3 leaves are of 3 leaflets 

 each, the lateral ones rather smaller than the terminal. In 

 all other respects the specimen agrees with the type. [Small 

 patches were met with, but not in any great quantities.] 



Cassia. Sturtii, R. Br. Mount Lyndhurst: Mungeranie. 

 Leaflets in 2-3 pairs, obovate-oblong, grey-tomentose, with 

 a conspicuous depressed gland between each pair : pods not 



