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Frankeniaceae. 
Frankema laevis. L. Spec. PL, 331 ; Dirk Hartog Island, Cunningham ; Menil- 
yalya River, J. Forrest. The glabrous narrow-leaved form. 
Flumbagineae. 
Statice salicorniacea. F. v. M., Fragm. xi., 7 ; near Freycinet Harbor, F. v. M. It 
is evidently this species to which Gaudicliaud alludes as occurring on Peron 
Peninsula and Dirk Hartog Island, in his “Botanique” to the “ Voyage autour 
du monde sur PUranie et Physicienne,” p. 37. 
Caryophylleae. 
Polycarpaea longiflora. F. v. M., Rep. Babb. Exp., 8 ; Gascoyne River, J. Forrest. 
Flowering sometimes already at the height of a few inches from an annual root. 
Portulaceae. 
Clayton ia ptych ospermn. F. v. M., Syst. Census Austr. PI. 27 ; Gascoyne and Menilya- 
lya Rivers, J. Forrest. 
Clay torn' a polyandra. F. v. M., Syst, Census, 27 ; near Freycinet Harbor, F. v. M. ; 
Gascoyne River, O. Jones, Polak ; near the Lyons River, J. Forrest. Mr. Forrest 
notes, that it is the “ Coonda ” of the local native tribes, who use this succulent 
herb as aliment, and that sheep when largely feeding on this shrub can do for a 
considerable time without drinking water. Leaves generally narrower than illus- 
trated in the Botanical Magazine t. 4833. Racemes occasionally several, forming a 
fascicle or panicle. Seeds brown, numerous, very small ; in age slightly furrowed ; 
minutely reticulated. 
Amarantaceae. 
Ptilotus grand, iflorus. F. v. M., Fragm. i., 237 ; near Sharks Bay, J. Forrest, Polak. 
Occasionally somewhat downy. 
Ptilotus lat folius. R. Br., in App. Sturt’s Exped. 25 ; Menilyalya, J. Forrest ; Gascoyne 
River, Polak. A variety with lanceolar leaves and somewhat pointed bracts and 
bracteoles. 
Ptilotus gomphrenoides. F. v. M., Fragm. vi., 233 ; Gascoyne River, J. Forrest. The 
plant there fully a foot long, with spikes finally lengthened to one inch. P. 
Murraji should be reduced to this species. 
Ptilotus macrotrichus. F. v. M., Fragm. iv., 90 ; Peron Peninsula, Maitl. Brown. 
Ptilotus obovatus. F. v. M., Fragm. vi., 228 ; near Sharks Bay, Cunningham, Maitl. 
Brown ; Gascoyne River, J. Forrest, Polak ; Freycinet Harbor, F. v. M. 
Ptilotus rotundifolius. F. v. M., Fragm. vi., 200; Gascoyne River, J. Forrest. 
Sepals beautifully red towards the summit. 
Ptilotus alopecuroides. F. v. M., Fragm. vi., 227 ; Gascoyne River, J. Forrest and 
Polak. In some specimens the bracts are more acute than usual, and rarely the 
summit of the sepals becomes pink. 
Ptilotus hemisteirus. F. v. M., Fragm. iv., 90 ; Sharks Bay, Maitl. Brown ; Freycinet 
Harbor, F. v. M. ; Gascoyne River, J. Forrest and Polak. 
Ptilotus Polakii. F. v. M. in Wing’s South. Science Record, Dec. 1882; Gascoyne 
River, Polak. The species differ from P. parvifolius in larger glabrous and flat 
leaves, which, however, are also only 2-5 lines long, but not mucronatc-pointed, 
besides they are not sessile but attenuated into a very short stalk ; the bracts and 
bracteoles are glabrous and colorless, as in normal specimens of P. parvifolius 
gathered on Mount Poole in the Grey Ranges by the llevd. W. Webster, but not 
distinctly pointed ; the sepals are usually four to five lines long and less villous 
towards the summit, but of the same bright red ; the outer sepals are slightly 
blunt and denticulated, while in the normal form they arc all pointed. In all 
specimens the inner sepals are Avoolly bearded inside at the base ; only two fertile 
stamens are developed as in P. laxus, or very rarely only one; the pistil is 
glabious and the fiuit pioves unilaterally turgid in every instance. Observations 
from future more extended material must prove whether specific value should be 
assigned to Mr. Polak’s plant. 
