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covered with bristly stellate hairs, not hitherto recorded. 

 Called "woolly white drought-weed" in California and (among 

 the Spanish-speakers) "verba del pescado," because the 

 Indians used to employ it to stupefy fish in small streams 

 (Jephson, Fl. West. Mid. Cal. 245). 



Sapindaceae. 

 Dodonaea attenuata, A. Cunn. Yadnarie, E.P. (Dist. 

 L; per A. G. Edquist) ; Port Augusta; Ooldea Soak 

 (J. M. B.). Shrub 1-2 m. high, with rough brown bark. 



Malvaceae. 



Sida cryphiopetala, F. v. M. Near Oodnadatta (Miss 

 Staer). This appears to be the first record of this species for 

 South Australia proper. Tate only gives it for his Dist. F, 

 which is in the Northern Territory. 



S. calyxhymenia, J. Gay. Tarcoola. 



Hibiscus Farragei, F. v. M. Eighty miles north of Ren- 

 mark (Dist. M; J.' B. Cleland). 



FRANKENI ACEAE . 



Frankenia pulverulenta, L. Foreshore at Geelong, Vict. 

 (H. B. Williamson, 1908). This identification has been con- 

 firmed by Mr. E. Surgis, of the Paris Museum of Natural 

 History, who is engaged on a revision of the Frankenmceae. 

 He adds that it agrees in all points with the European plant 

 and with specimens brought to France by the Baudin Ex- 

 pedition of 1801 from the east coast of Australia, also with 

 two others collected by Max Koch in South Australia in 

 1899. Max Koch's researches were principally made near 

 Mount Lyndhurst (Flinders Range), so that the plant pro- 

 bably exists in that district. Having been discovered so early 

 in the history of Australia it seems not unlikely that this 

 Mediterranean species is also indigenous here. Among our 

 endemic species it stands nearest to F. pauciflora, DC, both 

 in the flowers, placentation, and number of ovules, but differs 

 altogether in the shape of the leaves, which are flat, obovate, 

 truncate, or almost emarginate, and covered below with very 

 short white hairs which gave the surface a mealy appearance. 



F. fruticulosa, DC, collected at Murat Bay (Thevenard 

 Peninsula), has sometimes 3 placentas and 3 style-branches, 

 but in such cases I have only found 1 ovule to each placenta. 



Myrt ACEAE. 



Melaleuca glomerata, F. v. M. Rep. Babb. Exped. 10 

 (1859). 



M. hakeoides, F. v. M., ex Benth. Fl. Aust. iii., 151 

 (1866). 



