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l,O00ft.-l, 900ft. above thg base of Mt. Broome, King Leopold 



Ranges (W.V.F.). 

 Height 2ft. Leaves f-liin. long. Pedicels 3 lines or less. 



Sepals lJ-2 lines long. Petals white. Cocci 2 lines long. 



Seeds black. 

 Growing in crevices of quartzite. 

 Affinity to B. grandisepala F. v. M. 



MBLIACE^. 



327. Melia dubia Cavan. 



King Sound District (Froggatt) ; Wingrah or Devil'.s Pass, 

 Napier Range, Grant Range, Ord and Denham Rivers 

 (W.V.F.) An evergreen tree of 4:0-50ft., trunk to 20ft. ; 

 diameter l-l|ft. ; bark brownish, thin and scarcely rugose ; 

 timber pale yellow or brownish and straight-grained ; 

 flowers white, sweetly scented ; fruits pale yellow. In 

 sandjr loams. The Australian plant is referred to M. 

 composita Willd., in the Flora Australiensis. This is now 

 regarded as a synonym for M. dubia. Muller places it 

 under M. Azedarach L. 



328. Owenia reticulata F. v. M. 



Near Nichol Bay (Walcott) ; Ord River (W.V.F. ). 



A tree of 40ft. in height ; trunk to 15ft. ; diameter l|ft. ; bark 

 dark brown, rough and moderately thick, usual]3r longi- 

 tudinally fissured and somewhat corky ; timber brown, 

 hard and tough ; flowers greenish ; fruits purple, globular, 

 often 2in. diameter. 



In sandy loam. 



The pulp of the fruit is very scanty and of a disagreeable flavour. 



329. O. verrucosa F. v, M. 



A tree to 30ft. ; trunk 15ft. ; diameter to 1ft. ; bark reddish, not 

 very thick, rough and flaky ; timber dark brown, verjr 

 hard and tough ; flowers greenish- white ; fruits purple, 

 the pulp extremely bitter to the taste. 



Among sandstone and quartzite rooks, or on sandy undulations. 



POLYGALACE.^. 



330. Polygala leptalea DC. 



Carson River (J. Bradshaw and Allen) ; Upper Lennard and 



Isdell Rivers, north base of Bold Bluff (W.V.F.). 

 Sometimes almost leafless ; flowers pink. 



331. P. Tepperi F. v. M. 



Roebuck Bay (J. W. O. Tepper) ; near Derby (W.V.F.). 

 Erect, l-2ft. ; flowers pink ; closely alKed to the Indian P. 

 rosmarinifolia Wight and Arnott. 



