794 NOTES FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS, SYDNEY, NO. XVI., 



it comes nearest to the Tasmanian W. rubicefolia R.Br., but 

 differs from it in the short calyx-lobes and in the shape, arrange- 

 ment and the colour of the leaves. It cannot be tacked on as a 

 variety to any described species, as it is as much distinguished 

 from any of them as they are from each other. The chief char- 

 acteristic is the inflorescence, which comes nearest to the capitate 

 inflorescence of W. cephalanthaF.v.M., without being trul}' capi- 

 tate. 



We name the plant in honour of Mr. Edwin Cheel, a co-worker 

 on the Australian flora. Mr. Cheel also diagnosed this plant and 

 we made use of his notes to some extent in this paper. 



Prostanthera Leichhardtii Betith. 



Cobar(E. C. Andrews; November, 1910). 



Previously recorded from Queensland only, "Bottle Tree Creek, 

 Leichhardt," being the only locality recorded by Bentham, and 

 later still by Bailey. 



The specimen was determined by Archdeacon Haviland, and 

 presented to the National Herbarium by the collector. 



MONIMIACEiE. 

 Palmeria scandens r.v.M. 



Coff's Harbour(J. L. Boorman; May, 1909); Acacia Creek, 

 Macpherson Range(W. Dunn; May, 1909, and May, 1910). 



The fruits of this tall woody climber are incorrectly described; 

 the drupes are supposed to be completely enclosed in the enlarged 

 somewhat fleshy fruiting calyx. This is not the case in the fully 

 matured fruits, as the fruiting specimens from the above two 

 localities show. The fruiting calj'x Anally bursts irregularly, 

 and expands into a flat, very much lacerated disk bearing 2 to 

 6 sessile dark drupes on its surface, much as in Tetrasynandra 

 {Kibara Endl.), only the disk is much larger and more conspicu- 

 ous, and the drupes are smaller. 



LAURACEiE. 

 Cryptocarya erythroxylon Maiden & Betche. 

 Gloucester district(W, Heron; November, 1909). 



