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NOTES FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS, SYDNEY. 



No. 4. 

 By J. H. Maiden and E. Betche. 



PITTOSPOEE.!;. 



CiTRioBATUS LANCiFOLiA, F. M. Bailey {Bot. Bull. No. vii. p. 60, 

 1893). New for N.S. Wales. 



Lismore (W. Bauerlen, March, 1891 and 1893, in fruit; Sep- 

 tember, 1894, in flower). Previously recorded by Bailey from 

 Killarney and Warwick, Queensland. According to Mr. Bauer- 

 len, the small tree attains a height of 25ft. in the Lismore scrub. 

 Specimens received from Mr. R. T. Baker, Curator, Technological 



Museum. 



MALVACE.ffi. 



Abutilon Mitchelli, Benth. — New for N.S. Wales. 



Mt. Browne (P. Corbett, November, 1898). Previously 

 recorded from Queensland and South Australia. 



Flowers yellow, larger than described in Bentham's Flora Aus- 

 traliensis, the petals attaining fully f inch in length. 



LEGUMINOS.ffi. 



Gastrolobium Boormani, n.sp. 



An erect shrub, 6 to 10 ft. high, with hirsute young branches. 

 Leaves in irregular whorls of three, or alternate, ovate-cordate, 

 about 4 to 6 lines long, tapering into a slender pungent point, 

 glabrous above, sprinkled with a few hairs underneath, the fine 

 reticulation prominent on both sides. Stipules spinescent, divari- 

 cate, about half as long as the leaves. Flowers axillary, solitary 

 or more rarely in pairs or in a raceme reduced to two flowers, on 



