56 J. H. Maiden: Species novae in Horto Botanico Sydneyano (I). 
always winged, and the leaflets are articulata on the rhachis, very mueh 
like the irregularly compound leaves seen in Atalaya. 
New South Wales: Herb, Rev. Dr. Woolls, without locality or 
date; Bidden Road, Gilgandra, and Mudgee Road, 4 miles from Dubbo 
(R. H. Cambage; Oktober, 1904). 
5. Melaleuca linearifolia Sm. var. alternifolia Maiden et Betche, |. c., 
p. 742. 
Leaves alternate, much narrower and usually shorter than the type. 
The whole plant is glabrous, and the flowers are loosely scattered in an 
interrupted spike. This form is rather common in the northern coast 
districts, and seems to extend from Stroud to the Richmond River. It is 
so well distinguished from the form with broader opposite leaves and 
dense spikes, which grows so abundantly in the sandstone country in 
the Port Jackson district, that is should be separated from it as a named 
variety. 
New South Wales: Coffs Herbour to Grafton (J. H. Maiden and 
J. L. Boorman; November, 1903). 
6. Parsonia rotata Maiden et Betche, l. c., p. 744. 
A tall glabrous climber. Leaves from elliptical to lanceolate, nearly 
equally rounded at both ends and abruptly drawn out to a point, or 
grandually narrowed at the apex and almost truncate at the base, rarely 
narrowed at the base, dark green above, paler underneath, the largest 
seen 4!/, inches long and 2!/, inches broad. Petiole !/, to above !/, inch 
long. Flowers axillary and terminal, few in the inflorescence (not above 
8 in all specimens seen), in an almost umbel-like contracted cyme, the 
common peduncle about !/; inch long, the pedicels shorter. Calyx-lobes 
about 1 line long, rather unequal. Corolla rotate, cream-coloured, per- 
fectly glabrous outside, the tube as long as the calyx, the spreading lobes 
oblong, fully twice as long, with a dense fringe of hairs at the base, 
extending in a ring round the top of the tube. Stamens inserted near 
the base of the corolla, with long filaments spirally twisted together, the 
anther-eone and parts of the filaments exserted from the corolla-tube. 
Hypogynous glands somewhat united at the base, Fruits not seen. 
New South Wales: Hastings River (Forester G. R. Brown; no 
date; about 1890); Lismore (W. Büuerlen; February, 1891); Burringbar, 
between Tweed and Richmond Rivers (E. Betche: April, 1896); Port 
Macquarie (J. H. Maiden; November, 1897). 
In affinity this new species is nearest allied to P. lanceolata, R. Br. 
but is sharply distinguished from it chiefly by the shape, size and in- 
dumentum of the corolla, and, above all, by the dense ring of hairs in 
the throat of the corolla. 
7. Solanum violaceum R. Br. var. album Maiden et Betche, Le, p. 747. 
The white-flowering form of this handsome Solanum seems to be by 
no means uncommon, but is has never been recorded, as far as we know. 
The specimens of the two localities are very sparingly prickly, in fact 
