PLANTS OF CENTRAL AUSTRALIA, m 



My friendj Captain Sturt, having placed at my disposal 

 the Collection of Plants formed in his recent Expedition 

 into the Southern Interior of Australia, I am desirous of 

 giving some account of the principal novelties it con- 

 tains. 



The collection consists of about one hundred species, to 

 which might be added, if they could be accurately deter- 

 mined, many other plants, chiefly trees, slightly mentioned 

 in the interesting narrative, which is about to appear, and 

 to which the present account will form an appendix. I 

 may also observe, in reference to the limited number of 

 species, that Captain Sturt and his companion, Mr. Brown, 

 seem to have collected chiefly those plants that appeared 

 to them new or striking, and of such the collection con- 

 tains a considerable proportion. 



In regard too to such forms as appear to constitute 

 genera hitherto undescribed, it greatly exceeds the much 

 more extensive herbarium, collected by Sir Thomas 

 Mitchell in his last expedition, in which the only two 

 plants proposed as in this respect new belong to genera 

 already well established, namely, Delabechia to Brachychi- 

 ton, and Linschotenia to Dampiera. 



In Captain Sturt's collection, I have been obliged, from 

 the incomplete state of the specimens, to omit several 

 species, probably new, froiii the following account, in which 

 the plants noticed, chiefly new genera and species, are 

 arranged according to the order of families in the Pro- [er 

 dromus of De Candolle. 



