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SOME FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON THE VEGETA- 

 TION OF LORD HOWE ISLAND. 



By J. H. Maiden, F.L.S., Botanic Gardens, Sydney. 



(Plates xxxii.-xxxiii.) 



I offer a few brief notes on some Lord Howe Island plants to 

 which I have given attention since the publication of my former 

 paper (P.L.S.N.S.W. 1898, p. 112), together with a few additional 

 bibliographical notes of some interest to the botanist. May I 

 remind my readers, in passing, that there is, in the Santa Cruz 

 Group, a second Lord Howe Island (see Proc. R.G.S. xlii. 220). 



JASMINE^:. 



Notel^a quadristaminea, Hemsl. — " Blue Plum." In my 

 former paper (p. 130) I gave an account of the Blue Plum, and 

 figured the fruits; I supposed it had not been recorded as having 

 been found on the island. I have since received a complete series 

 of botanical specimens, and find that the Blue Plum is referable 

 to Notelcea qtiadristaminea, and a description of the fruit will be 

 found in Mueller's Fragm. viii. 42, as Chionanthus. An amended 

 description is given at x. 89, as Mayepea. I cannot find that this 

 plant has anywhere been referred to by Mueller or others as 

 " Blue Plum." 



Through Mr. J. G. Luehmann's kindness I have received 

 specimens of leaves of (1) 1 Endiandra sp., Russell River, Queens- 

 land (Sayer); (2) large coriaceous ovate lanceolate leaves, 8 inches 

 long by 3 inches wide. New South Wales (Camara). Both are 

 accompanied by fruits of NotelcBa qtiadristaminea. They are, in 

 my opinion, incorrectly matched, but they aff'ord clues as to the 

 occurrence of this species on the mainland. Up to the present I 

 have not received these characteristic fruits from an Australian 

 locality for certain. 



