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Calocephalus citreus, Less. — Bungendore, Lake George (W. 



Bauerlen). Previously recorded from west of the Dividing 



Range. 



SAPOTACEa:. 



*AcHRAS PoHLMANiANA, F.v.M. — Tumbulgum (W. Bauerlen). 

 Bentham describes it as a shrub, but W. Bauerlen's measurements 

 give the trees as about 60 feet high and 12 inches in diameter. 

 The wood is softer and whiter than that of the other species. 



EBENACE^. 



*Maba seriocarpa, F.v.M. — The description of this plant in 

 Bentham's Flora Australiensis (Vol. iv. p. 389) is lacking in one 

 or two essential characters which were wanting in the material 

 examined. These I now add : — Female flowers solitary in the 

 axils of the leaves. Calyx 1^ lines long, silky villous with a pair 

 of ovate brown bracts at the base. Corolla 2 lines long, tube 

 glabrous, shorter than the calyx, lobes silky hairy on the back. 

 Ovary 1 line long, covered with minute silky hairs. Fruit under 

 six lines in diameter, sprinkled with silky appressed hairs. 

 Bentham records the calyx lobes "nearly as long as the berry," 

 but this is not so in my material, but only \ the length of the 

 fruit. 



The male flowers are also shorter than described (loc. cit.), the 

 calyx measuring one line and the cox'olla two, lobes obtuse, short. 



The general aspect of the plant would lead one to name it at 

 once as M. hemicycloides, F.v.M., and the calyx, fruit and leaves 

 agree with that species, but it difiers from it and M. laxiflora, 

 Benth., in being " silky-pubescent with rust-coloured hairs," 

 which feature and the appressed hairs of the leaves preclude one 

 from removing it from M. se7-iocarpa, F.v.M. My own opinion 

 is that M. seriocarpa, F.v.M., M. hemicycloides, F.v.M., and 

 M. laxifloi'a, Benth., are all one and the same species. The long 



* Species marked with an asterisk have not previously been recorded 

 from New South Wales. 

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