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Dr. Steward's Kondinin specimens show the fruits more constricted under the 

 rim than any I had previously seen, but his buds were too young to be characteristic. 

 Mr. Gardner sent some buds from Bendering which supply the deficiency. They show 

 the calyx-tube so constricted that the operculum appears to greatly exceed in diameter 

 the calyx-tube at the commissural line, and its diameter is slightly in excess of that 

 of the greatest diameter of the calyx-tube. The bud therefore takes on the shape 

 described as moniliform. The rest of the operuclum is attenuated-rostrate. The 

 buds from South Australia (Eyre's Peninsula) are similar to those of Bendering. 



The differences in the buds and fruits of the type and of those of Kondinin- 

 Bendering are sufficiently marked as to bring into consideration that we may have 

 here a distinct species, and I very much lean to this, but the juvenile foliage as present 

 prevents me setting up a second species at the present time. We must complete our 

 collections and investigations. 



RANGE. 



Hitherto believed to be confined to Western Australia, we now note its 

 occurrence in South Australia also. Its range may be stated as southern Western 

 Australia, from the eastern Goldfields or Kalgoorlie railway line, then east of Narrogin 

 and Broome Hill on the Great Southern Railway, then east to Desmond (via Hopetoun) 

 and Esperance (this and the latter both on the coast), and these localities connect the 

 Kalgoorlie railway line via Widgiemooltha. Then very much east to Eyre's Peninsula 

 in South Australia, and I confidently look for its collection in intermediate localities. 



Western Australia. — Esperance (Lindley L. Cowen, January, 1902), Desmond, 

 near Ravensthorpe (J.H.M., November, 1909); Gnowangerup, 30 miles east of Broome 

 Hill (W. G. Grasby, April, 1912; Kondinin, 250 miles from Perth, on the Narrogin- 

 Xarembeen railway line (Dr. F. Stoward, No. 57, January, 1917); between Woolgangie 

 and Dedari Sidings, Eastern Goldfields railway, 312 miles east of Perth (T. McL., 

 No. 239, through C. E. Lane-Poole, August, 1917); Widgiemooltha-Norseman road 

 (C. E. Lane-Poole and E. H. Wilson, December, 1920); " Merritt," Bendering 7 miles 

 from Kondinin, in loam, in low flat places associated with E. salmonophloia (C. A. 

 Gardner, No. 1,229, February, 1922, and No. 1,686, June, 1922). 



