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LAURACE^. 



227. Cassytha strigosa W.V.F., n. sp. 



Quite glabrous excepting the inflorescence ; stems filiform. ; 

 flowers distant, in simple slender spikes, the rhachis 

 invested with rigid shining brown strigose hairs ; bracts 

 ovate, as long as the outer perianth-segments ; scantily 

 strigose ; outer segments of the perianth not half as long 

 as the inner, scantily ciliate, the inner very broad and 

 glabrous ; three outer stamens opposite the outer perianth- 

 segments broad and petal-like ; ovary glabrous ; fruit 

 scantily strigose, many ribbed, ovoid, reddish-brown, the 

 persistent perianth-lobes of a bright pink color. 



Eastern base of Mt. Broome (W.V.F.). 



Spikes 1-1 Jin. long. Perianths under | hne long, white. 

 Fruits 2-2J- lines long. 



Parasitic in shaded spots on low shrubs. 



Affinity, C filiformis L. 



228. C. filiformis L. 



Broome, near Derby ; Meda, May, Lennard, Fitzroy, Isdell, 

 Barker, Charnley, and Calder Rivers ; Walcott Inlet 

 (W.V.F.). 



A hirsute form. Flowers and fruits white. 



RHOEADALES. 



CAPPARIDACE.^. 



229. Cleome oxalidea F. v. M. 



Sturt's Creek (W.V.F.) ; May and Lennard Rivers. (W.V.F.). 

 Scapes many from the one rhizome, filiform ; sepals IJ lines 



long, red ; capsule to above Ijin. long. In ironstone 



gravel. 



230. Oynandropsis Muelleri Benth. 



About 2ft. high, of straggling habit ; flowers yellow. 



231. Gapparis lasiantha R. Br. 



Branches climbing many yards ; flowers white. 



232. C nummularia DC. 



Petals white ; fllamonts pale to purple. 



233. C. umbellata R. Br. 



Careening Bay (A. Cunn.) ; near Wyndham, Ord and Denham 



Rivers, Swan Point (W.V.F.). 

 A tall shrub or small tree supported by others ; 10-1 5ft. high ; 



trunk 4-5ft. ; diameter 3-4in. ; bark grey, smooth ; 



timber pale, rather soft but close-grained ; branches 



straggling, sometimes shortly climbing ; flowers white. 



Among sandstone and quartzite. 



