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I collected excellent specimens in my 1909 tour of W.A., 

 and my specimens are labelled Perth, but I would like to 

 see this locality confirmed or corrected, as it is quite 

 possible that the locality was confused in the many send- 

 ings of my material to Perth. 



Mr. Fitzgerald's Ounderdin specimen (see also under A. 

 ulicina) was originally labelled by him A. ulicina, and I 

 believe that determination to be correct. At the same 

 time an unpublished note of Mr. Fitzgerald says: — "J.. 

 leptacantha E. Pritzel. Victoria Plains (Dielset Pritzel), 

 Ounderdin ( W.V.F.). Of spreading intricate habit, 1 - 2 ft. 

 high; in ferruginous sandy soil." This may refer to the 

 specimen of A. ulicina collected by him from Ounderdin, 

 which I have seen, or it may refer to an undoubted speci- 

 men of A. leptacantha from that locality, which I have 

 not seen. A brief note like this on plants of this habit 

 could refer to either A. ulicina or to A. spinosissima 

 (leptacantha). 



A. ulicina Meissn. 



This species was described by Meissner in PI. Preiss. ii, 

 202, from Drummond's (2nd Ooll.) No. 147, which is before 

 me. The only other specimens quoted by Bentham (B. Fl. 

 ii, 345) are two of Oldfield's, and I have a fragment of the 

 Soutli Hutt River one sent to me by Dr. F. W. Stoward, 

 then of W.A., who received it from the Melbourne Herb- 

 arium. Its label says " Soutli Hutt. Straggling shrub up 

 to twelve feet, leaves rigid." A second specimen, Bowes 

 River, I obtained from Prof. Ewart. In addition, Diels 

 and Pritzel (Engler's Bot. Jahrb. xxxv, p. 299) quote it 

 from the Irwin district, near the Greenough River (D. 

 4211), while I have a specimen from Ounderdin (W. V. 

 Fitzgerald, Nov. 1903). These various localities bring us 

 from the vicinity of Northampton (north of Geraldton) to a 

 few miles east of Northam, as the known range of the 



M— December 3, 1919. 



