646 NOTES FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS, SYDNEY. 



CAPRIFOLIACEffi. 



Sambucus xanthocarpa, F.v.M. 



Weddin Forest Reserve (J. H. Maiden, November, 1899). The 

 most western locality recorded. 



COMPOSIT.ffi:. 



SoLiVA SESSiLis, Ruiz and Pav. 



Naturalised in Moore Park, near Sydney (October, 1899). 



Soliva anthemifolia, R.Br., though included in Mueller's 

 " Census of Australian Plants," has 1>een always suspected of 

 having immigrated from South America. The discovery of a 

 second South American species of the same range, from the 

 Argentine to South Brazil, greatly strengthens this belief. 



Helichrysum COLLINUM, DC. (syn. with H. oxylepis, F.v.M.) 

 The type specimen of //. oxylepis from Moreton Bay has long 

 linear leaves with revolute margins, and looks rather different 

 from the broad-leaved woolly specimens of H. colHnum from the 

 Goulburn district or the Blue Mountains, but we find the shape 

 and indumentum of the leaves, as well as the length of the 

 involucral bracts characters so variable, that we fail to draw a line 

 between the two species. Inspection of the abundant material 

 in the Melbourne Herbarium confirms our opinion, and we now 

 propose to reduce H. oxylepis to a variety of //. coUinum. From 

 the fact that in Mueller's original description of H. oxylepis in 

 1858 {Fray III. i. 35) he refers to its affinity to //. scorpioides, and 

 does not mention the much more closely allied //. cnlUnum 

 (described so far back as 1837), we may conclude that the existence 

 of H. collinum escaped his notice at the time, which oversight 

 led to the mistake we ha\ e now corrected. 



G0ODENIACE.S;. 



GooDENiA glomerata, sp.nov. 



A perennial with a tufted stem and several erect leafy woolly- 

 hairy flowering stems. Leaves chiefly radical, spathulate-lanceo- 



