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APPENDICES. 



LIST OF PLANTS COLLECTED DURING MR. TIETKENS' 

 EXPEDITION INTO CENTRAL AUSTRALIA, 1889. 



Bv Baron Sir F. von Mueller, F.R.S., &c, and Professor R. Tate, 

 F.L.S., &c. 



[From the transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 1890.] 



[Read April 1st, 1890.] 



Last year Mr. Tietkens was placed in charge of a party by the Central 

 Australian Exploring and Prospecting Company, Adelaide, to explore the Mac- 

 donnell Range and the country to the west and south of it. The period of explo- 

 ration embraced the months of April to August, and the plants which form the 

 subject of this report were collected by Mr. Tietkens and his assistants during 

 that time. 



As Mr. Tietkens' map and journal are not yet published, the approximate 

 position of each locality referred to in this report here follows : — 



Proceeding northward from Charlotte "Waters the localities are : — ■ 



Crown Point, on the River Finke, about forty miles north of Charlotte "Waters. 

 Horse-shoe Bend, twenty miles north of Crown Point. Orraminna, forty miles 

 south of Alice Springs. Emily Gap (in the Macdonnell Range), eight miles 

 south of Alice Springs. Burt Plain or the tableland on the north of the Mac- 

 donnell Range, the scarped front of which constitutes that range. (See East, 

 Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., vol. xii., p. 47, 1889.) Bond Springs, ten miles 

 north-east of Alice Springs. Painta Springs, fifteen miles north-west of Alice 

 Springs. 



Thence along the Macdonnell Range are : — Mount Sonder,long. 132° 20', lat. 

 23° 35' ; Mareena Bluff, Mount Razorback, Glens Helen and Farewell being 

 adjacent thereto. Glen Edith, long. 131° 10', lat. 25>° 50'. 



Thence about west to the boundary line with "West Australia. Watson Hills, 

 about midway between Glen Edith and Gill's Creek, in Clelands Hills, long. 

 130° 30', lat. 23° 48'. "Sandstone Rocks," long. 129° 35', lat. 23° 50'. Laura 

 Tale, six miles from Mount Rennie, in long. 129° 15', lat. 23° 35'. Mount 

 Leisler, in the Kintore Range, long. 1/58° 25', lat. 23° 30', sixteen miles from 

 north-east of Lake Macdonald. 



Lake Macdonald — Thence returning by way of Lake Amadeus to near Charlotte 

 Waters, there are — Warman Rocks, south-east of Lake Macdonald, long. 128° 

 54', lat. 23° 55'. Mount Harris, in Blood's Range, long. 129° 27', lat. 24° 40'. 

 Mount Olga is seventeen miles north of west from Ayers' Rock, which latter is 

 in long. 130° 50', lat. 25° 30' ; Mount Conner, long. 131° 30', lat. 25° 30'. 

 These island- like elevations are situated about half a degree to the south of Lake 

 Amadeus. Basedow Range, long. 132° 10', lat. 25° 5'. Between here and 

 Charlotte Waters are Erldunda, Goyder's Springs, Ayers' Range, and Eringa, 

 the last thirty miles west of Charlotte Waters. 



The collection numbers 250 species, and compares not unfavorably with the 

 joint results of Giles and Gosse in their several expeditions to this region. 

 Nevertheless, the whole collection is somewhat disappointing, and adds but 

 scantily to the records of the Australian flora. This is all the more to be regretted 

 as the season of 1889 was exceptionally favorable, and the part of the region 

 traversed was a novel one for botanical research. Much of the material has 



