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form from the intestinal walls, etc., of the red gurnard, Cheli- 

 doaichthys kumu Less. & Garn., and of theflathead, Platycephalus 

 fuscua (both from Port Jackson; collected by Thos. Steel); (8) 

 Echinorhynchus sp., a spiny form from the two last-mentioned 

 fishes (Port Jackson). None of the above, except No.6, had been 

 previously recorded as occurring in Australia, No.6 having been 

 recorded from West Australia, and doubtfully from New South 

 Wales. 



Mr. E. Oheel exhibited a living plant of Orobanche cernua Loef., 

 (Orobanchacefe) found on the roots of a cultivated plant of IVo- 

 pteolum pentaphylhim lja,m., (Geraniace(e) in Mr. A. Yates' seed- 

 testing nursery at Concord. Also a plant of groundsel infected 

 directly from secidiospores of Puccinia tasmanica Diet., developed 

 upon a plant exhibited at last Meeting, showing the progress of 

 the disease in thirteen days; no teleutospores had yet been 

 found. 



Mr. Fred Turner exhibited and oflPered observations on tlie 

 following plants: — (1.) Protea cynaroides Linn., a remarkable 

 and rare South African Protead, grown in the garden of the late 

 Honble. Dr. James Norton, M.L.C., at '• Ecciesbourne," Double 

 Bay. The shrub is now about nine feet high, and this year is 

 carrying five expanded flower-heads and several buds. Hitherto 

 tlif^ plant has produced not more than two flower-heads annually 

 for a number of years. It is worthy of note that Dx*. Norton 

 was the first to flower this remarkable plant in New South 

 Wales. The flovver-head shown was twelve inches in diameter, 

 including the involucral pink scales. (2.) A variegated form of 

 Evodia micrococca F.v.M., grown in the garden at " Eccies- 

 bourne," and named var. marmorata by the exhibitor. Last 

 season the parent-tree produced a fair quantity of seed, and 

 some of the resulting self-sown seedlings have developed varie- 

 gated foliage, a state which Mr. Turner had not hitherto observed 

 either in cultivated or naturally grown specimens. This indi- 

 genous Australian tree is fairly common in many of the coast 

 districts of New South Wales and southern (^leensland. (3.) 



