ENUMERATION 
or THE 
PLANTS COLLECTED BY DR. J. MURRAY DURING MR. A. HOWITT’S 
EXPEDITION INTO CENTRAL AUSTRALIA IN THE YEAR 1862. 
Br FERDINAND MUELLER, M.D., Ph.D,, F.R.S., Government Botanist 
FOR THE COLONT OP VICTORIA. 
CRUCIPEEiE. 
Blennodia lasiocarpa, F. M. Transact. Phil. Soc. 
Vic. i. 100. Cooper’s Creek. 
Cappaeide.®. 
Busbeckea Mitchellii, F. M. Plants ludig. to 
Victoria, i. 63. Cooper’s Creek. Native 
orange of the travellers. 
Feankeniac2e. 
Frankenia Imvis, L. Sp. PI. 473. In multifa- 
rious varieties widely dispersed over the 
interior. 
Malvace*. 
Sida petropliila, F. M. in Linnssa, 1852, 381. 
Cooper’s Creek. 
Sida corrugata, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. 
ii. 12. Cooper’s Creek. 
Malva hrachystachya, F. M. in Linneoa, 1852, 
378. Cooper’s Creek. 
Lavatera pleheja, Sims Bot. Mag. 2269. Extends 
from the Darling River to the vicinity of 
Wills’s Creek. 
Meliace.®. 
Owenia sp. Cooper’s Creek. Collected without 
fruit. 
ZvOOPHYLlEiE. 
ZygopbyUtim Soivittii, F. M. Fragm. Phyt. 
Austr. iii. 150. Sandy country near Wills’s 
Creek. 
Tribulus terrestris, L. Sp. 554. In various 
varieties. Cooper’s Creek. 
Tribulus Hystrix, R.Br. in Sturt’s Central Austr. 
ii. App. p. 69. Cooper’s Creek. 
Sapindaceje. 
Atalaya hemiglauca, F. M. Fragm. i. 98. 
Cooper’s Creek. 
Bodoncea viscosa, L. Suppl. 218. Cooper’s Creek. 
Elattneaj. 
Bergia tnpetala, F. M. in Transactions Phil. 
Inst. Viet. ii. 66. Cooper’s Creek, above 
Burke’s first ddpOt. The speeimina trans- 
mitted prove this species to be perennial. 
Molmjgineje. 
Qlinus lotoides, Loefl. Iter. Hisp. 145. Exten- 
sively dispersed over the interior. 
PoBTULACEiE. 
Portulaca filifolia, F. M. Fragm. Phyt. Austr. 
i. 169. Cooper’s Creek. 
Portulaca oleracea, L. Sp. PI. 638. Widely 
distributed over the interior. 
Calandrinia Balonnensis, Lindl. in Mitch. Trop. 
Austr. 148. South of Wills’s Creek. 
Leguminos;e. 
Acacia Pence , F.M. Fragm. Phyt. Austr. iii. 151. 
Beyond Wills’s Crock, 25° 30'. 
Acacia spliacelata, Benth. in Hook. Lond. 
Journ. of Bot. i. 338. Cooper’s Creek. 
Acacia honiolophylla, All. Cunn. in Hook. Lond. 
Journ. i. 365. Cooper’s Creek. 
Acacia salicina, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. 
ii. 20. Cooper’s Creek. 
Acacia aneura, F.M. in Liumea, 1853, 627. 
This is the “ Mulga” of the natives, and 
forms the main constituent of the Mulga 
scrub. 
Acacia decora, Reichenb. Icon. Exot. t. 199. 
Not rare in the desert country, where it 
forms the favorite food of the camels. 
Acacia F'arnesiana,'W . Sp. Pl.iv. 1083. Common 
on Cooper’s Creek. 
Cassia plalypoda, R. Br. in Sturt’s Centr. Austr. 
ii. App. 77. With the variety C. phyllo- 
dinea from the Darling River to Cooper’s 
Creek. 
Cassia eremopMla, All. Cunn. in Sturt’s Centr. 
Austr. App. 77. Desert country up to 
Cooper’s Creek. 
Cassia hcteroloba, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. 
ii. 121. With the preceding species. 
Cassia desolata, F. M. in Liumea, xxv. 389. 
From the Darling River to Cooper’s Creek. 
Bauhinia Idchhardtii, F. M. in Transact. Phil. 
Inst. Viet. iii. 50. Cooper’s Creek. 
Psoralea patens, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. 
ii. 8. Cooper’s Creek. 
Crotalaria Cuntdnghami, R. Br. in Sturt’s 
Central Austr. li. Append. 70. Northwards 
from within fifty^ miles of the Stony Desert. 
Crotalaria eremma, F. M. Report on Gregory’s 
Plants from Cooper’s Creek, p. 5. Flooded 
borders of Wills’s Creek. 
Lotus Australis, Andr. Bot. Bep. 624. Var. 
parviflorus. Cooper’s Creek. 
Tngonella suavissuna, Lindl. in Mitch. Three 
Exped. i. 255. Depressed ground north of 
the Stony Desert. 
Vigna Benthami, F. M. V. lanceolata et Y. 
suberecla, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. pp. 
350, 388. South of Wills’s Creek. 
Sesbania Australis, F. M. in Transact. Viet. Inst, 
i. 36. Cooper’s Creek. 
Swainsona phacoides, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. 
Austr. 363. On the borders of the depresed 
ground south of Wills’s Creek. 
