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broadly lanceolate and acute, 2-4 cm. long, but the pedicels are 

 always short, never as long as the almost globular fruit, and 

 very different from specimens collected in Tasmania, which 

 have pedicels 12-15 mm. long, much longer than the large 

 obovoid capsule, which is almost lobed, owing to the deep 

 furrows between the cells. This is the typical B. viscosa, as 

 shown in Labillardiere's figure. In short, if the two species are 

 distinguished by the pedicels and fruits, we do not, on the 

 present evidence, possess B. viscosa in South Australia ; if 

 they are distinguished by the leaves, we do. Probably the two 

 species should be united, but if they are maintained distinct, 

 I should feel inclined to make the pedicels and fruit the leading 

 characteristic, and in that case we have only B. opaca, with the 

 following localities : Robe, Beachport, Port Vincent, Kangaroo 

 Island, Marino, Cape Thevenard (leaves lanceolate or oblan- 

 ceolate, long or short, acute or obtuse, very white below) ; 

 Loxton, Ooldea (leaves oblanceolate, short, light green below) ; 

 Alawoona, Loxton, Yaninee, Gladstone, Quorn (leaves' broad- 

 linear, usually short, 1-2 cm. long). Var. linearis, Benth. 

 Torrens Gorge; Clarendon. 



Phyllanthus trachyspermus, F. v. M. Mount Lyndhurst 

 (border of Dists. C and S). Sent to the Department of Agri- 

 culture under suspicion of poisoning stock. 



Bertya Mitchellii, J. Muell. Eight miles inland from 

 Port Broughton (Dist. N; F. S. Salisbury) ; Yumali (Dist. T. ; 

 S. A. White). This species has been recently united with 

 B. oleifolia, Planch., from which it was distinguished in the 

 Fl. Aust. by its narrower leaves. 



^Euphorbia helioscopia, L. Paddock near Walkerville 

 terminus (H. W. Andrew). Already recorded from Port 

 Lincoln. 



Rhamnaceae. 



Spyridium eriocephalum, Fenzl., var. n. adpressum. 

 Variat foliis confertis adpressis subcylindricis 3 mm. longis 

 apiculo deflexo terminatis, petiolis brevibus sed conspicuis, 

 capitulis sessilibus, foliis floralibus 2-3. 



Port Lincoln; Edilillie (H. Griffith). A slender shrub, 

 easily recognized by its small, crowded, erect, glossy leaves. 

 The typical form of S. eriocephalum, with spreading leaves 

 3-10 mm. long, is found at Karoonda and in other parts of 

 the Murray scrub, Woodchester, Keith, Bordertown, Stans- 

 bury, and Minnipa. It is a shrub with intricate branches, about 

 50 cm. high. A form with thicker and broader leaves, some- 

 times with a slight groove on the upper face, occurs on Kan- 

 garoo Island and at Port Vincent. 



S. vexilliferum, Reiss. The typical form, with rather 

 long, spreading leaves, hispid and deeply grooved above owing 



