probably exists on Yorke Peninsula. The shrubs which I saw 

 north of Murat Bay were 2-3 m. high, with loose, light- 

 coloured, papery bark. 



M. fasciculiflora, Benth. Torrens Gorge ; Beachport. 

 The Tate Herbarium contains similar specimens from Port 

 Lincoln district and Yallum. A shrub, usually rather low and 

 always growing near fresh water ; a Western Australian species 

 not hitherto recorded for S.A., because it has been confused 

 with M . erici folia, Sm. This identification is also due to Mr. 

 Cheel. The white flowers grow in small clusters on the 

 previous year's wood, but sometimes flowers which are male 

 only form small globose terminal heads ; the fruits, which are 

 truncate, rough, and somewhat corky, occur still lower on the 

 branches, solitary or in clusters of 2 to 6 ; the leaves are 3-8 

 mm. long, flat above, convex below, and with 2 parallel rows 

 of more or less immersed tubercles on the under-surface. The 

 filaments in each bundle vary from 10-20, while in Bentham's 

 description they are given as 7-11. 



M. quadrifaria, F. v. M. (plate v.). The type was collected 

 at Eucla by J. D. Batt in 1886, and sent to Baron von Mueller, 

 who evidently intended to describe it in, Wing's Southern 

 Science Record. In the 2nd Census (1889) the reference is: 

 "F. v. M., in Wing's S. Sc. Rec, April, 1886." In the 1st 

 supplement of the Index Kewensis (1895) it appears as "F. 

 Muell., in Wing's South. Sc. Record, N.S., ii. (April, 1886)." 

 In spite of these two statements it appears certain that the 

 number for April, 1886, was never published. The copies of 

 this periodical in the Adelaide and Melbourne Public Libraries 

 and in the Victorian National Herbarium contain no such 

 number. Mr. F. A. G. Barnard, writing in the Victorian 

 Naturalist, xvi., 112-3 (1899), claims to have a complete set 

 of the Record, and says that the undertaking was frequently 

 interrupted owing to pecuniary difficulties, and that only four 

 monthly numbers were issued in 1885 and one (for January) in 

 1886, after which publication ceased altogether. The only 

 known description of M. quadrifaria is in Tate's Fl. Extra- 

 trop. S.A., 93, and is as follows: — 



Leaves elongate, recurved-pointed. 

 Leaves opposite in 4 decussate rows ; flowers in well- 

 developed heads q uadrifnria 



The leaves are not elongate, being only 4-6 mm. long, and 

 as short as those of any other South Australian species except 

 M. gibbosa, while the point is rather slightly oblique than 

 recurved. The remainder of the description would apply 

 equally well to a number of other species of the genus. There 

 is no specimen in the Tate Herbarium, and Professor Ewart 

 very kindly lent me one from the Victorian National 



