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IticiNOCARPUS VELUTINUS, F. V. M. W.A., Lake Deborah, a 

 hrub three to five feet high ; 30 miles N. W. from Southern Cross ; 

 100 miles N.E. from Geraldton. The petals of the staminate 

 flowers are somewhat longer than the calyx and more glabrous. 



Bertya dimerostigma, /''. ?•. M. W.A., Victoria Desert (C. 

 54, C. 59). 



PiiYLLANTHUS THHSioiDES, Bentham. S.A., Arcoeillina Well. 



Pn\T.LANTHUS LACUNARius, F. V. M. W.A., near Mount 

 Squires. 



A.DRIANA TOMENTOSA, (raitdichaud. W.A., Victoria Desert (C. 

 54), two feet high. 



Adriana QUADRIPARTTTA, Gav.didi.nud. S.A., Arkaringa Creek. 



URTICACEvE 



Ficu.s PLATYPODA, Cunninf/hani. 

 Arkaringa Valley, Birksgate Range, 



Parietaria debilis, G. Forater. 

 W.A., near Mount Squires. 



S.A., Arcoeillina, Upper 

 S.A., near Everard Range ; 



near J>oorabin, four 



Range, five to 

 W.A., Victoria 



and 



CASUARINE>(E. 



Casoarina cobniculata, /''. r. 31. W.A, 

 to eight feet high. 



Casuarina glauca, Sieber. S.A., Everard 

 twelve feet ; near Ferdinand River, 30 feet. 

 Desert (C. 53, 54), 25 to 30 feet. 



These specimens include the ordinary desert form 

 with more slender branchlets. 



Casuarina iiumills. Otto & Dietrich. S.A., Everard Range ; 

 W.A., Victoria Desert (C. 56, two to five feet), near Fra.ser 

 Range, near Gnarlbine (five to eight feet). Rudimentary leaves 

 deltoid, not rarely six in a wliorl (as stated by Miquel) : strobile 

 slightly sericeous. 



Var. ? S.A., Moolalpinna Hill (C. 7). Has the foliage almost 

 of C. humilis, but the whorls are mostly seven-denticulate, and 

 the spikes rather long and quite slender ; fruits unknown. 



Casuarina acutivalvis, /''. v. M. W.A., Victoria Spring, 

 12 to 15 'feet. Fruit-valves slightly carinate, they might be 

 considered rather sepaline than bracteolar in some analogy with 

 the staminate flowers, the envelope of which is considered 

 bisepalous. The seed-like fruit of this species, inclusive of its 

 terminating appendage, attains a length of rather more than half- 

 an-inch, but it is narrow in proportion to its width. 



Casuarina bicuspidata, Bentham. W.A., near Victoria 

 Spring. Appendage of each fruit-valve long-exserted, subulate, 

 slightly curved. Seed-like fruits, brownish-black outside. In 

 the collection the strobiles of C. bicuspidata are mixed with 



