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Herbarium for examination and drawing. In order to validate 

 Mueller's name a short diagnosis is here given : — 



Melaleuca quadrifaria, F. v. M. Herb. (tab. v). 

 Frutex fere glaber, ramulis ad folia inserenda excavatis, 

 floriferis incrassatis puberal is, folds sessilibus decussatis 

 confertis erect iusculis lf-6 mm. longis semicylindricis (supra 

 planis vel parum canaliculars infra convexis) acutis apice 

 paululum recurvis basi lata obliqud orbiculari subpeltatim 

 nffixis, fioribus albis circiter 15 in capitulum terminale aggre- 

 gates, calyce ovoideo If mm. longo, lobis acutis 1 mm. longis, 

 filamentis cujusque phalangis 7-11 ungui duplo longioribus, 

 fructibus glob o sis circiter 3 mm. diametro. 



Although the leaves in size and shape rather resemble 

 those of M. cymbifolia and cuticularis than those of any species 

 belonging to Bentham's Series vii., Peltatae, Mueller was no 

 doubt right in placing it in his Census next to M . tamariscina, 

 on account of the manner in which the leaves are attached by 

 their broad base almost peltately to the excavations of the 

 branchlets, leaving behind them, when they fall, large circular 

 scars. A copy of some manuscript notes by Mueller was also 

 supplied by Professor Ewart, and (if I interpret the contrac- 

 tions correctly) they are as follows : — "Bracts very narrow, 

 shorter than calyx ; axis slightly downy ; calyx glabrous, its 

 lobes deltoid, 3 times shorter than the tube and hardly half 

 as long as the orbicular white petals; stamens 7-11 in each 

 bundle, the filaments arising fascicularly from the connate part 

 and surpassing it nearly twice in length." 



M . Wilsonii, F. v. M. West of Bordertown. A straggling 

 shrub about 1*50 m. high; filaments 11-15; fruiting-calyx 

 5 -angled at summit by the persistant portion of the lobes. 



M. squarrosa, Sm. Dismal Swamp; Glenelg River; 

 between Mount Gambier and Glencoe. Petals and filaments 

 white, a variation in colour already noticed by Mueller 

 (Fragm., v.-, 55). 



Oenotheraceae . 



Epilobium glabellum, Forst. Near Glenelg River; Beach- 

 port. At Dismal Swamp a dwarf form was common, 3-10 cm. 

 high ; leaves only 6-12 mm. long, glabrous, oblong, irregularly 

 and rather prominently toothed ; flowers small ; perhaps a 

 distinct species. E. junceum, Forst. Waterfall Gully; Scott 

 Creek ; Woodside ; Hamilton. 



Halorrhagidaceae. 



Halorrhagis heterophylla, Brongn. Bordertown (Dist. T). 

 Small, rather typical specimens, hispid, with leaves lanceolate, 

 entire or 3-lobed. 



