BY J. H. MAIDEK AND E. BETCHE. 149 



form are narrower than in the European and Asiatic specimens, 

 we have never met before with quite terete leaves. 



LA.BIAT5;. 

 Plectraxthus congestus, R.Br. — New for N.S. Wales. 



Mt. Nullum (about 800 ft. high) near Murwillumbah, Tweed 

 River (Dr. G. A. G-oldsmid, February, 1899). Previously recorded 

 from Queensland. 



M0NIMIACE.5:. 

 PiPTOCALYX MOOREI, Oliv. 



Dividing Range, between Sandy Flat and Mount Spiraby, 

 Tenterfield district (J. H. Maiden, December, 1898). 



This rare and interesting plant (figured in 1895 in Hooker's 

 Icones Plantai'ibm., pi. 2.367) has been previously recorded only 

 from the Kempsey district on the Hastings River, and from 

 WoUombi and Guy Fawkes on the Armidale road. 



LAURINE^. 



Endiandra globosa, n.sp. 



A tall straight-stemmed tree, glabrous in all its parts, except 

 minute hairs on the inflorescence. Leaves ovate-elliptical, acu- 

 minate but obtuse, 5 to 5^ inches long and 2 to nearly .3 inches 

 broad, finely reticulate and equally green on both sides, narrowed 

 into a short petiole. Panicles in the few specimens seen much 

 less than half as long as the leaves. Calyx- (or perianth-) tube 

 small, the limb very open, consisting generally of six broad 

 segments. Stamens : three fertile ones alternating with three 

 short thick rudimentary ones, and a large scale-like gland on each 

 side of the fertile stamens. Ripe fruits perfectly globular, two 

 inches in diameter, resting on a short thick pedicel, with a thin 

 pericarp and a hard woody endocarp. 



Near Murwillumbah, Tweed River, N.S.W.(Dr.J. A. Goldsmid. 

 December, 1898). 



