I see the more I feel convinced that K. decaptera, F. v. M., 

 Frao-m. ix., 75 (1875), cannot be maintained even as a variety. 

 Most of our South Australian specimens have 4-5 vertical 

 wings on the fruit, but at Stuart Pass (Tate Herb.) and at 

 Broken Hill, N.S.W., specimens are found which have norm- 

 ally 3 wings, but occasionally 4 or even 2 wings; sometimes, 

 where there are apparently only 3 wings, abortive fourth or 

 fifth wings are present. Otner specimens from Broken Hill, 

 similar in all otiier respects to the above-mentioned, have 4 

 or 5 vertical wings. K. pentatropis , Tate, in Trans. Roy. 

 Soc. S. Austr., vii. 67 (1884), was later on united by its 

 author with A', decaptera. 



K. triptera, var. erioclada, Benth. Between Mounts 

 Parry and Playfair (Tate Herb, as K . pentatropis): Dublin 

 (H. Griffith) ; Leigh Creek and Tarcoola (Dr. Cannon) ; 

 north of Murat Bay and Port Augusta West (J. M. B.). 



K. villosa, LindL, var. tenuifolia, Benth. Eighty miles 

 north of Renmark (J. B. Cleland). Appears to be a rather 

 stiff, erect, almost glabrous shrub or under-shrub ; perianth- 

 tube hemispherical with 10 slender ribs. 



K. pyramidata, Benth. Tarcoola (Dist. W; J. M. B.). 



Bassia Tatei, F. v. M. Farina and Murnpeowie (Dist. 

 C; H. W. Andrew). The Tate Herbarium cantains the fol- 

 lowing specimens : the type collected in 1883 by Prof. Tate 

 near Lake Torrens, but not described by Mueller until 1890 ; 

 Cootanoorinna (near Warrina, coll. M. Murray, without 

 date) ; Mount Lyndhurst (Max Koch, 1898, and described by 

 the collector as "a perennial plant with upright branches, 

 grey-tomentose") . 



B. sclerolaenoides, F. v. M. Beltana (H. W. Andrew). 

 Here the 5 spinelike appendages are wanting, and only the 

 5 herbaceous, bifid or sometimes trifid appendages are pre- 

 sent, so that the fruiting perianth resembles externallv those 

 of K. ciliata and coronata. 



Threlkeldia inchoata, J. M. Black. Toclmorden Station, 

 Alberga River (H. W. Andrew). 



Th. saUuginosa, F. v. M. Port Augusta West (Dist. 

 W; J. M. B.). It now seems to me preferable to place the 

 wingless species under Threlkeldia, and to retain Babbac/w. 

 for the winged species, according to Mueller's original defin- 

 ition of the genus (Rep. Babb. Exped. 21), instead of uniting 

 the gibbous-fruited and wing-fruited species under OHeo- 

 carpum. 



Bhagodia Gaudichaudiana, Moq. Tarcoola (J. M. B.). 

 A fair-sized straggling shrub growing near the creek; leaves 

 soft, all hastate; flowers in a dense panicle; berry scarlet; 

 fruiting perianth 5 mm. diam. when closed over the fruit, 



