THE BOTANY OF THE KIMBERLEYS, 

 NORTH WEST AUSTRALIA, 



By William Vincent -Fitzgbbald. 



(Communieated by J. H. Maiden, I.S.O., F.R.S., Honorary 

 Member.) 



Note by Communicator. — l\Ir. Fitzgerald was attached to two 

 expeditions, viz., that of C. Crossland in 1905, and one in the fol- 

 lowing year. A note on the botanical work wUl be found in my 

 "Notes on Acacia, No. li.. Tropical Western Australia," in Proc. 

 Roy. Soc, N.S.W. li., 106, 1917. The few specimens collected by 

 Dr. House, collected on the F. S. Brockman expedition of 1901 are 

 referred to, op. cit. p. 104, and are included by Mr. Fitzgerald in 

 the present paper. 



From time to time I brought before the Royal Society of New 

 South Wales (Vols, xlvii., 221 (1913) ; xlis., 317, 318, (1915) ; li., 

 445 (1917) ) notes on or descriptions of Eucalypts collected by 

 Mr. Fitzgerald, embodying his notes or descriptions where avail- 

 able. 



Concerning Acacia, the same remarks apply as regards tropical 

 species, to my papers in Proc. Roy. Soc, X.S.W. li., 71 (1917) 

 and "The Flora of the Northern Territory" (Ewart and Davies), 

 published by the Federal Government, 1917, Appendix iv., Acacias, 

 p. 318. As regards Extra-tropical species, Proc. Roy. Soc, N.S.W. 

 li., 238 (1917). 



On 11th April, 1916, I received from Mr. Fitzgerald, the day 

 after his departure on active service, his M.S. on Western Aus- 

 tralian plants, together with some herbarium specimens. With the 

 author away from Australia (he recently returned wounded), I 

 acted in his interests as well as I could. Some few remaining 

 Eucalyptus notes I wUl continue to publish in the Royal Society-, 

 New South Wales, series of papers, and others in my Critical Re- 

 vision of the genus. 



A Hydrocharidiacea, which on receipt of the manuscripts I 

 found Mr. Fitzgerald had described (but not published) had been 

 forwarded by me to Dr. A. B. Rendle, F.R.S., of the British Mu- 

 seum, a specialist on this Family, as far back as July, 1915. 



No opportunity presented itself of dealing with Mr. Fitzger- 

 ald's manuscripts in 1916. I divided them into three parts (a) The 

 present portion, which deals with the tropical (chiefly Kimber- 



