VABIETIES. MALVAGE^. 



zcmatus T. v. M. var. 



P "R A IVTT'M'P 7F 

 Xerochloa imberbis R.' Br. var. GOODENIACEiE. 



repens. Ooodema lamprosperma J) . v. iVl. 



var. foliosa. 



CYPEEACE^, COMPOSITE. 



Cyperus Holoschmnus R. Br. var. Pluchea tetranthera E. v. M. var. 



viscida. cinerea 



His paper therefore contains descriptions of — 



2 new genera 

 88 new species 

 5 new varieties 



and from that circumstance also becomes a most important contri- 

 bution to Australian botany. The new species of Acacia and Euca- 

 lypts are not included, having been dealt with elsewhere, as already 

 stated. This would increase the number of species by at least six, 

 making 94 in all. 



It would be desirable to make a comprehensive statement in 

 regard to the flora of North-West Australia, and my bibliography 

 will be useful in this connection, but it is not desirable to increase 

 the length of the present paper. In a few cases Mr. Fitzgerald has 

 not given specific localities, and in cases in which a species occurs 

 in extra-tropical areas, I have been careful to only present such of 

 Mr. Fitzgerald's notes as refer, at least in part, to tropical speci- 

 mens. 



The Northern Territory and North- West Australia being con- 

 tiguous country, it will be most instructive to compare Ewart and 

 Davies' "Flora of the Northern Territory," published last month 

 (December, 1917), with the present paper, but to do this would 

 delay publication of Mr. Fitzgerald's paper, and would also raise 

 the question of additional cost. 



The following brief account of the physiograhpy of the area 

 dealt with was supplied by Mr. Fitzgerald. The author has also 

 some fuller notes on the geology of the region which are less in 

 place in a jiurely botanical paper. 



The part specifically detailed extends due east of King 

 Sound and is typical of the country bounded on the south by the 

 Fitzroy River. 



The principal mountain chains are the King Leopold Ranges 

 which bear west of north to Walcott Inlet. Mount Broome is the 

 highest point, but does not exceed 1,900 feet abo\e the north-eastern 

 base. Away to tlie west and parallel with the ranges is a low rugged- 

 looking one known as the Napier Range, and beyond, for a distance 



