648 NOTES FROM THE DOTANIC GARDENS, SYDNEY, 



shortly petiolate, linear-lanceolate, 3 to 3| inches long, about 6 to 

 7 lines broad in the middle, tapering at both ends, shining above, 

 paler underneath, with slightly recurved, somewhat undulate 

 margins. Flowers generally 3 to 5 in loose axillary cymes much 

 shorter than the leaves but much longer than the petioles, the 

 pedicels 1 to 3 lines long, with 1 to several pairs of small bracts. 

 Calyx without any glands, the segments obtuse, slightly ciliolate, 

 above 1 line long, persistent under the fruit. Corolla-tube about 

 2 lines long, the lobes slightly longer, acute, the throat-scales 

 usually irregularly united in a lobed or crested ring. Anthers 

 inserted in the middle of the tube. Ovarv glabrous. Fruit 

 yellowish, on a short peduncle of about ^ inch, pear-shaped, 

 attaining in our specimens 2^ inches in length and about 1^ inches 

 in diameter, with a hardened rind and numerous seeds embedded 

 in pulp. 



Between Unkya Creek and Allgomera, Yarrahappini Mountain, 

 Kerapsey district (G. R. Brown, January, 1897, and November, 

 1899). 



B0RAGINE5:. 



Ehretia membranifolia, R.Br. 



Baradine (W. Forsyth, Novembei-, 1899). A new locality for a 

 plant rather rare in New South Wales. 



VERBENACE5:. 

 Spartothamnus .tunceus, a. Cunn. 



Scone (J. H. Maiden, August, 1899). 



In this locality a shrub 6 feet high by 6 feet broad, the stem 

 attaining 3 inches in diameter at the base, which is very much 

 larger than hitherto recorded. 



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LAURINE5:. 



Endiandra Sieberi, Nees. 



Shellharbour (E. Cheel, October, 1899). Most southern locality 

 recorded. 



