642 NOTES FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS, SYDNEY, 



SwAiNSONA Cadelli, F.v.M. (ined). 



Warrumbungle Ranges (W. Forsyth, October, 1899). 



We take this opportunity of offering a few words of explanation 

 in regard to the naming of this apparently very local plant. 



Flowering specimens were first collected in 1883 by E. Betche 

 in the Warrumbungle Ranges, near Coonabarabran, and sent to 

 Mueller for naming. About 6 years later Mrs. Cadell sent a. 

 bunch of cut flowers (without leaves) from Gulargambone to Mr. 

 Charles Moore, then Director of the Gardens, which contained the 

 same Srvainsona. These flowers were again sent to Mueller, and 

 his attention was drawn to the fact that they were identical with 

 the undescribed species from Coonabarabran formerly sent to him. 

 Mueller named the plant j^rovisionall}' in a private letter *S'. 

 Cadelli, but never wrote, or at all events pul)lished, a description. 

 The first description was published in 1893 in the Handbook of 

 the Flora of Netv South Wales (]\Ioore A: Betche), and though the 

 fruits have not been collected, all other characters agree so com- 

 pletely with Bentham's section A of the genus, that it has been 

 placed next to *S'. galegifolia, from which it is readily distin- 

 guished by its subulate calyx-tube and large floral bracts. 



Acacia rubida, A. Cunn. 



Several of the phyllodineous Acacias long retain their pinnate 

 seedling leaves, but in no species is this habit more prominent 

 than in A. i-uhida, where the pinnate leaves at the base of the 

 stem seem to be scarcely ever absent, even in full grown plants. 



Acacia salicina, Lindl. 



Page River, Scone district (J. H. Maiden, August, 1899). Most 

 easterly locality recorded. 



Acacia .tonesii, F.v.M. and Maiden. 



Wingello. Previously only recorded from Goulburn district,, 

 near Barber's Creek. 



