BY J. H. MAIDEN AND R. BETCHB. 795 



The species was described in Maiden's " Forest Flora of New 

 South Wales," Part xxvi., No. 96, Plate 100(1907), from speci- 

 mens collected on the Macpherson Range. It i« a tall tieein the 

 northern locality, attaining 4 feet in diameter, but seems to be 

 much smaller in the Gloucester district. This new locality 

 extends its range several hundred miles. Mr. Heron wiites:— » 

 "It is scarce here, and is about 12 inches at most in diameter, 

 and up to 20 feet high." 



PROTEACE^. 

 Embothrium Wickhami F.V.M., var. pinnata, n.vai'. 



Dorrigo(J. L. Boorman; December, 1909). 



This interesting Proteaceous tree is common in North Queens- 

 land, on the Bellenden-Ker Range and on the Barron River, but 

 has not been found in Southern Queensland, as far as we know; 

 and now it turns up again in Northern New South Wales, in a 

 very restricted area, in a different form. Mr. Boorman informs us 

 that he did not see more than about a dozen trees in a radius of 

 12 miles of the Dorrigo township, and that it .seems not to grow 

 anywhere else in the district. It is a true brush-tree, growing 

 in company with Araucaria, Dysoxylon, Harpullia, etc., attaining 

 a height of 60 to 80 feet, by about 5 feet diameter. The Howers 

 and fruits are quite identical with the Bellenden-Ker specimens, 

 but the leaves are pinnate in the New South Wales specimens, 

 and simple in the Queensland ones. Such a sharp distinction 

 would justify us in giving it a new name if it belonged to any 

 other Family, but the variability of the leaves is so marvellous 

 in Proteacefe, that we can only regard it as a pinnate-leaved 

 form. The leaves are from 9 to 18 inches long, including the 

 slender petiole, pinnate with 7 to 9 leaflets; leaflets lanceolate, 

 generally 4 to 5 inches long, and f to 1 inch broad in the middle, 

 tapering at botli ends, pinnately obliquely veined, only the 

 principal veins conspicuous. The rhachis between the leaflets is 

 in most leaves slightly winged towards the top, frequently 

 uuiting the three uppermost leaflets at the base, and thus showing 

 a tendency to relapse into apinnatifid leaf. This tendency is dis- 



