KY .1. H. MAIDEN AND B. BETCHE. 645 



We mentioned in our paper on Verticordia darwinioides 

 that we hoped to procure Ijetter material next season, which 

 might necessitate modifications in the above description ; 

 we did not succeed in that, but Mr. Baker had complete 

 material at the time, and it is a regretable oversight on his 

 part that he did not see that we were working on the same 

 plant, and did not refer to the obvious affinity of his " supposed 

 new genus " with our plant, in publishing his paper seven months 

 later. Our plant is decidedly a connecting link between Ve7-ti- 

 cordia and Darivinia (including HomorantJius), and having 

 considered the matter, we would have ourselves proposed a new 

 genus Vjut for its affinity to the S. Australian Verticordia Wil- 

 helvii. Mr. Baker's statement in his "Analysis of cognate genera," 

 in which he characterises the genus Verticordia as: "Calyx 

 hemispherical . . . flowers in corymbose heads," is scarcely 

 correct. The calyx of F. Wilhelmi is not hemispherical, but 

 cylindrical, exactly as in V. darwinioides, and the inflorescence of 

 the genus is described by Bentham as : "Flowers usually pedicellate 

 in the upper axils, forming often broad terminal leafy corymbs, or 

 simple leafy spikes or racemes," is consequently extremely variable, 

 and not a character on which the sepai'ation of a new genus could 

 be based. 



Angophoka lanceolata, Cav., and A. intermedia, DC. 



Narrabri (J. H. Maiden, November, 1899). The most north 

 western locality recorded for both species. 



UMBELLIFER5:. 

 ACTINOTUS GiBBONSII, F.V.M. 



Narrabri (J. H. Maiden, November, 1899). A new locality for 

 a rare plant 



Our common Flannel Flower, A. Helianthi, Labill., so well 

 known in the Port Jackson district, occurs also at Narrabri. We 

 have also found it considerably to the south-east, viz., Weddin 

 Range and Bundah Range, Grenfell. 



