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Cistace^:. — *Cistus hirsutus, Lamk. Roadsides, Mount 

 Lofty (H. H. D. Griffith). — Ornamental plant from the 

 Mediterranean region. 



Rutace^e. — Asterolasia muricata, sp. nova. Frutex humilia 



ramosus, ramulis stellato-pubescentibus, foliis breviter 



petiolatis late oblongis crassis rigidis 7-14 mm. longis 



superne tuberculato-muricatis glabris inferne concavis 



albo-tomentosis, floribus flavis subsessilibus solitariis 



axillaribus vel 1-3 terminalibus, calyce minuto, petalis 



induplicato-valvatis externe stellato-pilosis, staminibus 10, 



ovario tomentoso bilobato, stigmate magno emarginato. 



Near Mount Thisbe, Kangaroo Island (H. H. D. 



Griffith, October, 1908). The only species of Asterolasia 



as yet found in South Australia. It belongs to Bentham's 



section Urocarpus (Fl. Aust., i., 352), all the other species of 



which are Western Australian. (Plate ii.) 



Leguminos^e. — *Vicia gracilis, Lois. Longwood. — 

 Europe. 



Note. — Pultencza graveolens, Tate, has been found at 



Mount Remarkable (E. C. Black), leaves glabrous above and 



with margins much more revolute than in the specimens from 



the Mount Lofty Ranges. P. trifida, Black (Trans. Roy. 



Soc, S.A., xxxiii., 224). This species is nearest to P. densi- 



folia, F. v. M., which it resembles in the spreading leaves 



with recurved tips, but in P. trifida they are hairy, larger, 



distinctly mucronate, and without the prominent lateral 



nerves below; bracteoles trifid and flowers lighter in colour. 



The Tate Herbarium contains a specimen of P. trifida in 



leaf only, labelled "Mount Pleasant Station, 6/3/86." 



Umbellifer^e.— Carum sioides, sp. nova. Herba perennis 



aquatica glabra, rhizomate stolonifero, caule erecto 



sulcato fistuloso ramoso, foliis pinnatisectis inferioribus 



8-10-jugatis, foliolis ovato-oblongis sessilibus sequaliter 



serratis base truncatis, foliis superioribus paucijugatis, 



foliolis insequaliter inciso-dentatis, floribus albis, umbellis 



pedunculatis 8-12-radiatis oppositifoliis et terminalibus, 



involucri et involucelli bracteis 4-8 lineari-lanceolatis 



saepius integris, calycis dentibus obsoletis, petalis albis 



emarginatis cum acumine inflexo, fructu parvulo sub- 



globoso (If mm. longo) a latere compresso ad commis- 



suram constricto, mericarpii jugis angustis, vittis sub 



pericarpio sitis solitariis latis totam valleculam occu- 



pantibus, carpophoro bipartito cruribus mericarpio plus 



minus adnato. 



Growing in or close to running water at National Park, 

 Belair, at Willunga, and beside North Para River, Nuriootpa. 



