HORN EXPEDITION — BOTANY. 193 



Bassia Incuspiclata Eroinophila Froplingi 



Acacia anoura Hakea leucopt.pra 



Acacia totrao-onophylla Fimbristylis coiiiniunis 



Acacia Kempei Diplachiie loliiformis 



Cassia desolata Triodia sp. 

 Ptilotus incanus 



A more typical colloction is that afibrdod by the followini^- list (ibservod on 

 the tabledand, about 700 feet elevation, at al>nut five miles south from Charlotte 

 Waters, and also between Blood Creek and the Stevenson Iliver : — Atriplex 

 r/idi^odioides, Sa/so/a kali, Kocliia apliylla, Ercinophila Frcc/ingi, Bassia diacaiitha ; 

 A. r/ia_i^vdioidt'S is the prevailing shrub, but where the stony surface gives place to 

 fr-iable loam then K. aphylla is dominant, where the surface is channelled by 

 water-runnels their C(iurses are indicated by lines of the shrubs or small trees i^f 

 Acacia aiiciira, A. cvperopliylla or A. Iioiiialopliylla and with theuj Cassia dcsalafa. 

 Among bare patches of loam the following were noted : — Lepidiiiiii papil/asin/i, 

 Frankeiiia Imns, Euphorbia Dn/iiiniondi, Boerliaavia diffusa, Ptilotus exaltatns, 

 r. i/icaui/s, Tragus racc/imsus, Cyuodon ciliaris, Sporoholiis octiuoclados, KIcusiiie 

 cruciata, Aristida arcuaria, Pappoplwruui counuuuc and Astrclda pccfiuata. 



2. List of Plants, Nkw or RarI': in the Region. 



[The asterisk prefixed indicates that the species is New for the Region.] 

 *Drosera Indica. Wet Ijanks of the River Stevenson. 



Hibiscus Krichaurti. Common from Oodnadatta to Crown Point. 



Rumex crystallinus. River Steven.son between Oolal>arrinna and Macumba. 



*Atriplex elachophyllum. Ciown Point and Adniinga. 



*Threlkeldia proceriilora, a hirsute variety. Adniinga. New for South 

 Australia. 



Kochia brachyptera. Adniinga. 



*Bassia salsuginosa. Adminga. 



Crotalaria Mitehelli. Sandy loam-flats by the Stevenson Rivei', from 

 Oolabarriiina to IMacumlja. 



*Acacia liomalophylla (giddea in the vernacular). Forms a dense serul) around 

 base of Mount Daniel ; margining water-channels from Charlotte Waters to 

 Oodnadatta. Conspicuous by its ashy-grey foliage. 



