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NOTES FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS, SYDNEY. 



No.16. 

 By J. H. Maidkn' and E. Bktche. 



TILIACEiE. 

 EL.EOCARPUS HOLOPETALUS F.V.M. 



Guy Fawkes(J. L. Boonnan; Decembet-, 1909). 



Common in the southeni |.arts of New South Wales, but not 



recorded from north of the Blue Mountains, so far as we know. 



Mr. Boorman writes that it is fairly common at Guy Fawkes. It 



attains a height of 30 to 40 feet near the coast, at the foot of the 



ranges, and dwindles down to a liandsome shrub of 3 to 6 feet 



at the summit of the ranges around Guy Fawkes, Armidale 



district. 



SUTACE^. 



ZlERIA HOBUSTA, n.Sp. 



East of Mt. Werong, 3,700 feet liigh, on the edge of "The 

 l>ig Plain" overlooking the Kowmung River (R. H. Cambage, 

 No.2261; October, 1909). 



An erect compact shrub with erect branches, about 12-18 

 inches high, quite glabrous and densely covered with glandular 

 tubercles very prominent on the 3'oung shoots and petioles. 

 Leaves opposite, trifoliate, the common petiole about ^ inch longj 

 leaflets obovate, about ^ inch long, generally with a minute 

 lecurved point and with slightly irregularly crenate margins, the 

 glands chiefly prominent on the midrib. Flowers small, white, 

 almost concealed amongst the leaves, in short trichotomous cymes 

 about as long as the leaves, with small bracts. Cal3^\:-lobes 

 triangular, densely tomentose inside, pealts imbricate in the bud, 

 iininutely puberulent about twice as long as the calyx, the whole 



