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242. Byhlis lirdfiora Salisb. 



Flowers purple, petals toothed. The species occasionally has 

 a subtropical distribution. 



ROSALES. 



PITTOSPOBE^. 



24-3. Pittosporum phillyroides DC. 



A shrub of 10-12ft. or a tree of 30ft. ; trunk 10ft.; diameter 

 6-12in. ; bark greyish, smooth ; timber whitish, branches 

 usually pendulous, flowers yellow. " Native Willow." 



244. Citriobatus pauciflorus (A. Cunn.) 



Careening Bay (A. Cunn.), near Synnott Range, and on a tribu- 

 tary of the Sprigg River, 10 miles N. of Mt. Bartlett 

 (W.V.F.). 



A Coprosma^like shrub of 10ft. or a tree of 25ft. ; trunk 10ft.; 

 diameter 6in. ; bark greyish, thin and rather smooth; 

 timber pale, dense and moderately hard, fruits greenish- 

 yellow or yellow. On the banks of and in the beds of 

 watercourses. 



LEGUMINOS^. 

 MIMOSOIDEiE. 

 Acacia (see introductory note). 



245. A. kimberleyensis W.V.F. in Maiden, Proc. Roy. Soc, 



N.S.W. LI.. 112 (1917). 



246. A. curvicarpa W.V.F.. Loc. cit., p. ] 14. 



247. A. pachyphloia W.V.F. Loc. cit. p. 116. 



(For a complete list of North- West Australian Acacias see 

 - Maiden, Proc. Boy. Soc, N.S.W. LI, 71, 1917.) 



248. Eyrthrophloeum Laboucheri F. v. M. 



A tree 30-40ft., the branches spreading ; trunk 10-15ft. ; 

 diameter 1-1 |ft. ; bark dark-grey, rough ; timber a 

 very dark brown, almost black, close-grained, moderately 

 heavy, and one of, if not the hardest wood in Australia ; 

 flowers greenish-yellow. The "Black Bean" of N.W. 

 Australia. 



249. Dicrostachys Muelleri Benth. 



George's River and Jones' Creek (J. Forrest) ; May and Len- 

 nard Rivers, near Inglis' Gap, King Leopold Ranges 

 (W.V.F.). 



An erect thorny shrub, 12-1 6ft. ; fertile, flowers yellow ; 

 staminodia of the neuter ones purple ; pod glabrous, 

 much curved, tardily dehiscent, l-2in. long, 4-5 lines 

 broad ; valves hard, convex ; seeds subrotund, a shining 

 brown. 



