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Lid of the Plants collected during Mr. Alexander Forrest's 
Exploring Expedition in 1879, hetween Mehol Bay and King’s 
Sound. 
As a contribution to our knowledge of the range of species the collection has 
proved interesting, inasmuch as several of the plants were not known to extend so far 
South; it is thus also shown, that the peculiar Southern vegetation of Western Australia, 
which is so rich and remarkable, almost completely ceases in the country between Nickol 
Bay and King’s Sound, although a few of them may reappear under the same latitudes 
far inland. Indeed, it appears from previous researches, that the Southern vegetation, — 
a few of its straggling forerunners excepted, — does not to any considerable measure 
extend North beyond the Gascoyne River. The most notable plant of the collection is 
a Begonia, if indeed the generic position of the plant is correctly guessed, in the absence 
of flowers and fruits ; it has sessile, clasping, glabrous, denticulated stem leaves, and 
came from the country between the DeGrey River and LaGrange Bay. Hitherto the 
order of Begoniaceae was not known to be represented at all as indigenous anywhere in 
Australia, but this addition would not come unexpected, as a few species of Begonia are 
on record from so near as Timor and New Guinea. 
December, 1879. FERD. von MUELLER. 
LIST OF PLANTS. 
N ymphaeaceae. 
Nymphaea stellata. Willdenow, Spec. Plant, ii., 1153; Beagle Bay. 
Menisper inaceae . 
Tinospora smilacina. Bentham in the Journal of the Linnean Society v., Suppl. 52; 
between the DeGrey River and LaGrange Bay. 
Capparideae. 
Cleome viscosa. Linne Spec. Plant, 672; between the DeGi’ey River and LaGrange 
Bay. 
Cleome tetrandrci. Banks in DeCand. Prodr. i., 240 ; between DeGrey River and 
LaGrange Bay. Lat. 17 deg. 39 min.. Long. 122 deg. 44 min. ; Lat. 18 deg. 
10 min.. Long. 122 deg. 26 min. 
Droseraceae. 
Drosera Indica. Linne Spec. Plant, 282; Beagle Bay. Lat. 18 deg. 16 min.. Long. 
122 deg. 4min. ; Lat. 17 deg. 17 min.. Long. 123 deg. 5min. ; Lat. 18 deg. 4 min.. 
Long. 122 deg. 37 min. 
Di'osern petiolaris. R. Brown in DeCand. Prodr. i., 318 ; Beagle Bay , between the 
DeGrey River and LaGrange Bay. Lat. 18 min. 30 min., Long. 121 deg. 57 min. 
Byblis limflora. Salisbury, Paradisus Londin. t. 95; Beagle Bay. Lat. 17 deg. 
39 min.. Long. 122 deg. 44 min.; Lat. 17 deg. 53 min.. Long. 122 deg. 40 mm. 
Violaceae. 
HyhantJius enneaspermus. F. v. Mueller; lonidium enneaspermum. Vent. Jardin de la 
Malmaison, p. 27. Lat. 18 deg. 44 min.. Long. 121 deg. 44 mm. 
