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LAURACE^:. 



Cassytha glabella, B. Broion. W.A., near Karoling. 

 Cassytha melantha, R. Brown. W.A., Victoria Desert 

 (C. 56). 



CAPPARIDE^E. 



Cleome viscosa, Linni'. S.A., Warrina 

 27° 5', long. 119° 15' (D. Gumming). 



CRUCIFERuE. 



Sisymbrium trisectdm, F. v. M. S. A., Cootanoorina ; Upper 



W.A., C. 24 ; lat. 



Fraser Range. 

 Cootanoorina ; 



W.A., 



Arkaringa Creek, with large white flowers ; W. A., 



SiSYMBEIUM NASTURTIOIDES, F. V. M. S.A., 



Arkaringa and Upper Arkaringa Creeks. 



Erysimum brbvifes, F. i: U. S.A., Arkaringa Creek : 

 Fraser Range. 



Erysimum Blennodia, F. v. M. S.A., near Arkaringa Creek. 



Stenopetalum velutmum, F. r. M. A nearly glabrous 

 variety, with shorter pedicels and pinnitifid leaves. W.A., 

 Camps 53, 54; near Mount Squires; also at Pidinga, S.A. (R.T.)! 



Stenopetalum LiNEABE, R. Bvown. W.A., Fraser Rano-e. 



Stenopetalum sph.erocarpum, F. v. M. W.A., 80 miles south 

 of Victoria Spring (C. 64). 



Menkea spimrocaepa, F. v. M. S.A., Cootanoorina and 

 Arkaringa Creeks. Some of the plants have white petals. The 

 fruits are too young for determining absolutely the specific 

 position. Mr. Merrall has sent this .species from the vicinity of 

 Parker's Range; pedicels occur hardly twice as lon<' as the 

 matured fruit. 



Capsella cochleaeina, /'. c. J/., var. ocheantiia. S.A. 

 Arkaringa Valley. 



Capsella villosula, sp. nov. S.A., Arkaringa Creek, 

 Annual, dwarf, erect; much be.set with simple, very "spreading 

 iiairlets ; leaves nearly all radical, broad-linear or narrow-elliptic^ 

 'nit gradually attenuated into the petiole, entire, or some slightly 

 denticulated, always blunt; flowers corymbosely crowded, "emit- 

 ting a perfume like hawthorn, mixed with heliotrope ;" pedicels 

 ■ioon longer than the flowers ; sepals spreading, outside pilosulose ■ 

 petals bright-yellow, longer than the calyx ; anthers yellowish, 

 ellipsoid recurved ; style conspicuously longer than the stigma • 

 ovulary pubescent ; fruit small, elhpsoid-oval, lobeless ; the valves 

 Doat-shaped, the septum in the narrow diameter ; two or three 

 seeds in each cell. From two to five inches high. Stem usually 

 simple. Radical leaves to one and a half inches long ;md quar- 

 er-inch broad, less pubescent than the stem and pedicels ; stem- 

 eaves diminutive, usually narrow, often undeveloped. ' Petals 

 'ardly one-eighth inch long, elliptic-ouneate. This species stands 



