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obtained, but the wild flowers of this region are very much 

 less numerous than in the southern part of the State. Ferns 

 of considerable beauty and growing in great profusion, were 

 found in some of the gorges. Unfortunately the grasses 

 of the basalt country were not in flower and the seed had 

 all dropped. The distribution of the curious baobab tree 

 is somewhat remarkable, the area over which it grows 

 being very restricted and apparently dependent to a great 

 extent on the nature of the soil." 



The results of this Expedition were briefly described by 

 Mr. Fraser in the W. A. Yearbook for 1900-1, p. 72. 



At p. 4 of his report, Mr. Fitzgerald referred to Dr. 

 House's collection as "small," and most, if not all the 

 species were collected later by him (Mr. Fitzgerald). At 

 p. 11 it is stated that Dr. House's collection consists of 

 solitary specimens of less than 100 species, many of them 

 fragmentary. 



19. Pritzel, E. E. Pritzel in Diels and Pritzel, Engler's 

 Bot., Jahrb. xxxv, (1905) collected 



11. A. translacens A. Cunn. 39. A. xiphiophylla n. sp. 

 38. A. sphcerostacliya n. sp. 40. A. trachycarpa n. sp. 

 A. camptoclada n. sp. All at or near Roeburne. 



The name A. camptoclada being preoccupied, see below, 

 I have suggested. No. 55, A. proxima for it. 



55. A. proxima n. sp. 



Synonyms (1) A. camptoclada E. Pritzel in Engler's 

 Bot. Jahrb., xxxiv, 309 (1905). This name is preoccupied 

 by A. camptoclada Andrews, Journ. W. A. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 39 (May, 1901), a species aff. A. undulifolia A. Cunn. 



(2) (?) A. acuminata Mueller or Tepper non Benth. in 

 Proc. Roy. S.A., xvn, 17, (1893). 



This has been looked upon by some observers as A. dora- 

 toxylon A. Cunn., but no pods are available in the case of 



