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This species seems to form one of the eastern outposts of the vast 

 mass of western Banksias, and may be still more limited in its 

 range than B. ornata. The celebrated and very venerable Edw. 

 J. Eyre (Journ. of Discovery— Expedit., II., 14) met the first 

 western Banksia, perhaps 7>. media, at Point Dover ; therefore, 

 still a degree further east than the longitude in which 

 B. Elder iana appears. B. marginata does not seem to penetrate 

 westward beyond Marble Range, 30 miles N.W. from Port 

 Lincoln. 



The^ following notes on the geographic distribution of some 

 Banksias may not be inopportunely offered : — 



B. sphisrocarpa at the Irwin and Arrowsmith Rivers, F. i: M. 



B. occidentalis at Wilson's Inlet, F. r. M. : petals yellow, style 

 bright-red. 



B. aitenuafa extends with JS. prionotes nortliward to near 

 Shark's Bay, F. v. M.; Howers yellow. 



B. Menziesii at Greenough River, F. v. M. : bark verrucose 

 petals yellow, style red and just below the stigma remarkably 

 constricted. 



B. nutans at Greenough River ; petals beset on the outside 

 with silver-grey hairlets. 



RUBIACE^. 



Oldenlandia elatinoides, _K v. M. W.A., Karelin. 



Cantiiium latifolium, F. v. M. S.A., Upper Arkaringa 

 Valley, near Wa-Wee Waterhole, Everard Range. W.A., 

 Ernest Giles' Range (D. Gumming). 



Canthium oleipolium. Hooker. W.A., Victoria Desert. 



Operculaeia scabrida, ScJdeclit. W.A., Victoria Desert 

 (C. 57), with shorter peduncles than usual ; Yerdanie, and near 

 Red Kangaroo Hill. 



Pomax umbellata, Solander. S.A., near Mount Watson 

 W\A,, Victoria Desert (C. 54). 



CUCURBITACE^E. 



Melothria Maderasfatana, Cogn. 8.A., Everard and 

 Birksgate Ranges. 



COMPOSIT,(E. 



Bracuv'OOMe ciliaris, Lessing. S.A., Warrina ; W.A., Vic^ 

 toria Desert (C. 53), Eraser Range. 



Braciiycome Muelleri, Sander (?). W.A., Victoria Springs. 



Minuria LEPTOPiiYLLA, DttCcmd. S.A., Arkaringa Valley." ' 



Minuria Cuxningiiamii, Bentham. S.A., Arkaringa. 



Minuria Candollei, F. v. M., forma denticulata. S.A., 

 Cootanoorina. 



