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flat or slightly concave, with a prominent midrib, glaucous, drying 

 with a bluish tinge, 3-5 mm. long. Stems hairy. Bracts but 

 little broader than the foliage, leaves merging into them, usually 

 at least 3 bracts can be distinguished. Flowers longer than the 

 bracts, about 1 cm., with a long tube, mostly apparently herma- 

 phrodite ; corolla silky villous outside, glabrous within. Filaments 

 short, anthers flat. Fruit not seen. It was collected near Port 

 Elliot, Encounter Bay, South Australia, by Miss J. Hussey, 1894. 



Polygonum articulatum, R.Br. (Polygonaceae). 



Darwin, Northern Territory, M. Holtze, No. 1244 (1891). 

 This is an addition to the Flora of the Northern Territory ; it 

 was previously recorded from Queensland. 



Ps am mo my a, Diels and Loes. (Celastraceae). 



This genus was described by Diels and Loesener in Engler's 

 Botan., Jahrb., Bd. xxxv., p. 339 (1905). They state that what 

 was described by F. v. Mueller in the Victorian Naturalist, vol. vi., 

 p. 118 (1889), as Logania choretroidcs does not belong to the 

 Loganiaceae and should be transferred to the Celastraceae under 

 the above named genus. They have divided it into two species, 

 namely P. choretroidcs and P. ephedroides, but through some 

 error the specimen from Mount Narryer, Murchison River, I. 

 Tyson, 1893, is given under P. choretroidcs. It should have been 

 placed under P. ephedroides as it agrees with the illustration given 

 by Diels on page 341. The specimen from towards King George's 

 Sound is quoted under P. ephedroides but obviously belongs to 

 P. choretroidcs. 



The distribution of these two species, according to the speci- 

 mens in the National Herbarium, Melbourne, are : — 



P. choretroidcs, Diels et Loes,' Eastern Sources of the Swan 

 River, Mrs. Heal, 1899; towards King George's Sound, 1892; 

 Cowcowing, Max Koch, September, 1904. x 



P. ephedroides, Diels et Loes, Mt. Narryer, Murchison River, 

 Isaac Tyson, 1893. So far as we know at present this genus 

 is confined to West Australia. 



Ptilotus, R.Br., and Trichinium, R.Br. (Amarantaceae). 



The species given under these two genera in the Flora of the 

 Northern Territory, pages 97 to 100, should be transposed, i.e., 



