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are new to science. Eleven species indigenous in India 

 are now recorded as Australian." At the same page he 

 speaks of "Mimosa" (Acacia suberosa and A. Bidwilli) 

 occurring on the richer grassed plains, called " Mimosa 

 plains," and the foliage of both species is readily eaten by 

 stock. 



(2). " Report on portions of the Kimberleys (1906)." 

 This occupies pp. 15-18 (in the second paragraph of p. 

 15 there is an account of the route), and there is a brief 

 botanical note at p. 16 in which the author says, "The 

 1905-1906 collections have added 319 species to bur tropical 

 flora, which now, from Dilieniacese to Pilices inclusive, 

 comprise 113 Natural Orders to 1304 species." 



These numbers are E. and O. E. as accountants say, and 

 Mr. Fitzgerald's are the only figures, of which I am aware, 

 referring to tropical Western Australia in contradistinction 

 to the "N.A." of Bentham and Mueller, and to which I 

 have referred in my account of the Acacias of the Northern 

 Territory. 1 



At p. 16 attention is drawn to small collections by Messrs. 

 Mayo Logue and J. P. Rogers. On the same page is an 

 account of Sunday Island (Eewin) 2 which really consists of 

 three islands at the entrance of King Sound. Brief notes 

 on the vegetation will be found at p. 18. 



Some of Mr. Fitzgerald's specimens came into my care 

 through purchase from a person into whose hands they had 

 passed, and some of the Eucalypts have been described by 

 me. 3 



1 The title of the work (in the press) is " The Flora of the Northern 

 Territory," by Alfred J. Ewart, d.Sc, Ph.D., etc., and Olive B. Davies, m.Sc. 

 with the co-operation of J. H. Maiden, E. Cheel, and A. A. Hamilton. 



2 Sunday Island (Ewenu), King Sound, Kimberley is described by W. 

 D. Campbell and W. H. Bird, in Proc. Roy. Soc. W.A., i, 55. At p. 58 is 

 an account, with native names, of some of the most important plants, 

 but no botanical names are given. 



3 This Journal, xlvii, p. 221; xlix, 317, 318. 



