Cleland). — Europe. Recorded in Victoria by F. M. Reader 

 in the Journal of Pharmacy as long ago as 1887 as a garden 

 escape (Ewart, Weeds Vict., 72). 



Casuarinaceae . 

 Gasuarina lepidophloia, F. v. M. Tarcoola ; Wynbring ; 

 Ooldea (Dist. W; J. M. B.). "Black Oak." Seventy miles 

 north of Renmark (J. B. Cleland). A tree 5-6 m. high, with 

 erect-spreading branches; cones smaller than in G. stricta, 

 and the valves (bracteoles) pubescent on the back ; bark rough, 

 dark brown and fissured, especially near the base; sheathing 

 teeth 9-12. I have seen in the Tate Herbarium a specimen 

 of the type, "from between the Darling and Bogan Rivers." 

 It has slender branchlets (1 mm. diam. when dry), minutely 

 hoary, and 9-10 ciliate teeth. Our specimens seem to agree 

 with the type except that the branchlets are sometimes a 

 little stouter (1J mm. diam., dry) and that the number of 

 teeth varies from 9 to 12. 



LORANTHACEAE. 



Loranthus miraculosus, Miq. Eighty miles north of 

 Renmark (flowering January on Myoporum platycarpum; J. 

 B. Cleland); Ooldea (flowering February; Mrs. D. Bates). 

 Umbel 2-4-rayed ; flowers all sessile; petals and style deep-red, 

 the former usually 5, sometimes 4 or 6, 15-20 mm. long (much 

 longer than in the description of the type) ; leaves always obtuse 

 and tapering towards the base, usually nerveless, when very 

 broad sub-3-nerved. 



L. linophylhis, Fenzl. Eighty miles north of Renmark 

 (J. B. Cleland). Flowering in January on Acacia Burkittii. 



Santalaceae. 



Three species of Fusanws are found along the East-West 

 Railway as far west as Ooldea: F. acuminatum, R. Br., the 

 edible native peach or quandong, sometimes only a shrub 2-5 m. 

 in height, with a drooping scarlet fruit often 3 cm. in diameter 

 and a deeply pitted endocarp; F. persicarius, F. v. M., the 

 inedible quandong, with a mesocarp thinner and bitter to 

 the taste, and the endocarp nearly smooth; F. spicatus, 

 R. Br., the "fragrant sandalwood," with thick, usually obtuse 

 leaves, an inedible fruit which remains green, a smooth endo- 

 carp, and very fragrant flowers, which make their appearance 

 from May to July. 



Chenopodi ace ae . 



Kochia triptera, Benth. Fl. Aust. v., 185 (1870). Tar- 

 coola (J. M. B.). Vertical wings 4-5. The more specimens 



