52 Plants Collected in Capricornic Western Australia, 



Poly car paea Indica, Lamarck, var. obfcusiflora. The 

 plants only about two inches high, but much branched and 

 profusely flowering ; sepals rather blunt; capsule exceedingly 

 short. Perhaps this variety will, under the above name, 

 have to be raised to a specific position. 



Polycarpaea longiflora, F. v. M. 



Mollugo trigastrotheca, F. v. M. 



Trianthenia crystallina, Vahl. 



Trianthema pilosa, F. v. M. 



Achy ran thes aspera, Linne. Reaches the most northern 

 regions of New South Wales (Fawcett). 



Amarantus pallidiflorus, F. v. M. 



Ptilotus obovatus, F. v. M. 



Ptilotus exaltatus, Nees. 



Ptilotus alopecuroides, F. v. M. 



Ptilotus helipteroides, F. v. M. 



Ptilotus fusiformis, Poiret, Mr. Moritz Holtze found 

 this plant also near Port Darwin. 



Ptilotus axillaris, F. v. M. 



Gomphrena canescens, R. Brown. 



Gomphrena Maitlandi, F. v. M. Specimens with flower- 

 heads partially axillary. 



Gomphrena platandra, F. v. M. Under this new name 

 a species is defined, which from the only other Austra- 

 lian congener with filaments dilated and at the summit 

 bidenticulated, namely G. conica, differs in diffuse growth^ 

 in shorter leaves, in unchanging globular flower-heads sup- 

 ported by two floral leaves, in larger bracteoles of greater 

 length than the calyx, and in the rosy colour of the sepals.. 

 From the following species it is distinguished in broader 

 leaves, in much largfer and never elonsjated flower-heads, as 

 well as in the toothed apex of the filaments. 



Gomphrena conferta, Bentham. This was found by the 

 Hon. J. Forrest also on the Yule- and Shirlock-Rivers. There- 

 likewise G. tenella occurs, but with finally spicate inflores- 

 cence. 



Alternanthera triandra, Lamarck. 



Codonocarpus cotinifolius, F. v. M. 



Isotropis atropurpurea, F. v. M. Fruit about f -inch long ;. 

 seeds kidney-shaped, l^-iuch long, prominently reticulated. 



Gastrololium grandiflorum, F. v. M. 



Crotalaria Novse HoUandise, De Candolle. 



Crotalaria Cunninghami, R. Brown. 



Crotalaria dissitiflora, Bentham. 



