■50 Plants Collected in CapricorniG Western Australia. 



during the survey, were secured, and through Mr. Forrest's 

 liberality placed at my disposal. As the region, from which 

 this collection was obtained, is phytogeographically a most 

 interesting one, the tropical and extra-tropical species of the 

 western part of the Australian continent largely meeting in 

 the tracts of country traversed by Mr. King, it is my 

 purpose to enumerate in these pages the species obtained, by 

 v/hich means new localities of many rare plants will be 

 placed on record, and some new forms will become eluci- 

 dated, while by these means also some further impetus in 

 various parts of Australia will be given perhaps for utilising 

 •the splendid opportunities, when surveys are effected in new 

 districts, to enrich collaterally also our knowledge of the 

 native vegetation and the resources connected therewith. 



Cleome tetrandra, Banks; var. grandior. Taller and 

 more robust ; leaflets broader ; style longer, very thin and 

 ■curved ; stigma not dilated ; fruit more distinctly stipitated. 



Cleome viscosa, Linne. Fruit always without any 

 stipes ; seeds smaller and darker coloured than those of 

 the preceding species. The variety grandiflora, noted by 

 Bentham, is in the third supplement to the Systematic Census 

 of Australian Plants raised to specific rank under the 

 above appellation. Some of the shorter filaments are 

 remarkably thickened near the summit, almost as in the 

 American species of the section Physostemon. The ripe 

 fruit of C. grandiflora remained hitherto unknown. 



Byblis liniflora, Salisbury. Fully a foot high. 



Drosera Indica, Linne. 



Tribulus platypterus, Bentham. 



Triumfetta chsetocarpa, F. v. M. 



Sida lepida, F. v. M. 



Abutilon longilobum, F. v. M. A variety with leaves 

 ^ess elongated and more definitely star-hairy, with calyces 

 not always cleft beyond the middle, and with the petals 

 usually longer. 



Hibiscus trionum, Linne. 



Hibiscus Goldsworthii, F. v. M. The specimens of this 

 highly ornamental plant show larger leaves with longer lobes, 

 also capsules of only about half the length of the calyx. 



Gossypium Sturtii, F. v. M. 



Go.ssypium Robin sonii, F. v. M. 



Gossypium australe, F. v. M. 



Brachychiton platanoides, R. Brown. Passes also in 

 -Eastern Australia j ust beyond the tropic of Capricorn. 



