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Aethropodium Preissii, Endliclier. W.A.. between Red Hill 

 and Yilgarn. 



SowbrbtEA laxiflora, Lindley. W.A., near Warangering. 



Bartlingia grandifloea, F. v. M., var. paleacea. W.A., 

 near Warangering ; between Fraser Range and Esperance Bay 

 (Gywnne) ; between Red Hill and Yilgarn. 



BOEYA ^nTIDA, Lahillardiere. W.A,, Karolin. 



Xeeotes fimbriatus, F. v. M. W.A., Victoria Desert (C. 59), 

 between Red Hill and Yilgarn. 



Xeroxes leucocephala, R. Broimi. S.A., 70 miles S.W. 

 from Mount Watson; W.A., Victoria Desert (Camps 44, 61). 



Xanthokehcea Preissii, Endliclier. W.A., near Boorabin. 



A variety with short fruiting spike, but witli the robust stalk 

 of X. Preissii ; no leaves obtained. 



Grass-trees with trunks up to 15 feet high were observed on 

 sandhills in the Victoria Desert (C. 55). 



FLUVIALES. 



Triglochin calcitrapa. Hooker. W.A., near Mount Squires. 

 Triglochin centrocarpa. Hooker S.A., Upper Arkaringa 

 A-^alley, Mount Ilbillee. 



JUNCACE^. 



JuNCUs PALLiDUS, Pi,. Brown. W.A., 20 miles X.W. of Red 

 Hill. It is not easy to distinguish between J. pdlidus and J. 

 communis ; but Professor Buchenan, the monographer of Juncus 

 and Lunula, after lengthened study of the large Australian 

 material submitted to him by one of us (F. v. M.), does not 

 admit ./. communis as a genuine Australian species. 



RESTIACE^E. 



Lepidobolus Preissianus, ^i'ees. W.A., 

 56, 57). 



CYPE RACEME. 



Cypeeus l^vigatus, Linne. S.A., Xilpena, a 

 with some of the spikelets solitary. 



Cypeeus vaginatus, R. Broivn. 

 Ilbillee. 



Cypeeus subdlatus, R. Brown, 

 Treuer Tableland (D. Cumming). 

 greyish, 

 brown. 



Victoria Desert (C. 



slender form. 



S.A., Nilpena, near Mount 



var. CONPEETUS. W.A., Von 



The flower-bearing bracts are 



whereas in the plant from Alice Springs they are pale- 



This has also some relation to G. Gilesii. As the typical 



plant is of littoral habit, it seems very doubtful whether the plant 

 of the interior areas is actually the same. No ripe fruits are yet 

 available. 



