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inner circle opposite to them is found also in C. Menziesii Hook.i 

 a Western American species, but in that case the petals are five 

 in number, and while the outer five stamens are alternate, the 

 remaining seven are opposite to the petals, of which the two 

 posterior have a pair in front instead of one. 



Indigofera boviperda Morr. FoHorum foHoHs 5 fol. termi- 

 nali ceteris majori, racemis axillaribus, calycis lobis quam tubus 

 longioribus acutis, legumine recto cylindrico. 



A shrub under 2 ft. high, in advanced fruiting stage, clothed 

 all over with a tomentum of centrally attached hairs, and more or 

 less rusty. Leaves unequally pinnate, the petiole with common 

 rachis grooved above, from 14 to 38 mm. in length, leaflets 5 

 on petiolules of about 2 mm., broadly oblong-obovate, mostly 

 cuneate towards the base, slightly retuse with a short dense 

 point, under surface dark grey with a short tomentum, mid- 

 rib and veins prominent, with corresponding depressions and 

 thinner pubescence on upper surface, lower pinnae about 6 mm. 

 long, the terminal one up to 12 mm. ; stipules of about 2 mm. 

 and stipellse both rigidly setaceous. Flowers numerous, shortly 

 pedicellate on long somewhat rigid racemes which are pedunculate 

 in the axils, and vary from 2 cm. to 12 cm. or even 19 cm. in 

 length, pedicels about 1"5 mm. long and recurved in fruit ; calyx- 

 tube under 1 mm. with subulate-pointed lobes of about 2 mm. ; 

 corolla not seen ; ripe pod straight, terete, sessile, obtuse at both 

 ends but mucronate at top, 12-28 mm. long and 2-3 mm. thick, 

 brown, densely tomentose, sutures somewhat thickened, seeds 

 usually eight in number, subglobose or truncate-cylindrical and 

 papillar-rugose on sm^face. 



Ashburton Eiver, North-west Australia. 



The nearest affinity of this species is to I. saxicola F. Muell. 

 and I. Georgei E. Pritz., having like them five stalked leaflets; but 

 the calyx-teeth are longer than in the former, while, as compared 

 with the latter, the leaves and pods are shorter, and the racemes 

 attain a much greater length. 



The plant came under special notice from having caused the 

 death of one hundred and twenty cattle out of a "mob " of five 

 hundred while travelling between Nanutarra, on the Ashburton 

 Eiver, and Uaroo, on the way towards Carnarvon at Shark's 

 Bay. A preliminary analysis of the dry plant by Mr. E. A. 

 Mann, Government x\nalyst, showed the presence of a poisonous 

 alkaloid. 



Drosera occidentalis, n. sp. Foliis rosulatis lamina orbicu- 

 lari peltata donatis, stipulis tritidis, scapis bifloris vel unifloris et 

 tunc bractea ad basin pedicelli onustis, sepalis petalis et staminibus 

 5, stylis 5 simphcibus. 



A minute plant, found in sandy soil in a newly cultivated wheat 

 paddock. Leaves to about twenty in number, rosulate, lamina 

 orbicular, eccentric-peltate, ciliate with long glandular hairs, very 

 concave, about 1 mm. diam. ; petiole about 4 mm. in length, 

 flattened below but slender at top, the rosette spreading to a 

 diameter of about 10 mm. ; stipules shining white, forming a bud 



