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(Sm.), and also Eriostemon ohovalis (A. Cunn.). The latter has 

 very delicate flowers, which have sometimes been found double. 

 As the season for flowering had nearly past (December), the 

 Leguminous shrubs were not so conspicuous as they had been a 

 month or so earlier ; but the species of Daviesia, Dilluoyniat 

 Mirbelia, Indigofera, Pultencea, Gomj^holohium, and Sphcerolobium^ 

 were evidently very numerous ; whilst five or six kinds of Acacia 

 were in fruit. The interesting terrestial Mistletoe, Atkinsonia 

 ligustrina, F. v. INI., (a ]:)lant ever to be associated with the name 

 of the excellent lady who did so much to develop the natural 

 history of the Kurrajong), was abundant on the sandstone. By 

 some botanists, this plant has been supposed to germinate on the 

 roots or decaying branches of trees, but so far as could be ascer- 

 tained, A. ligustrina is an independent terrestrial shrub. The 

 flowers are of a yellow or orange colour, the leaves occasionally 

 opposite, and the fruit 8-ribbed, protruding into deep furrows, so 

 as to give it the appearance of being 8-celled. In addition to the 

 trees of the Myrtacefe already mentioned, several species of 

 Leptospervium, Callistemon, Bceckia, Darwinia, and Kunzea were 

 seen on the ridges, but none of them seemed to differ from the 

 species near Sydney. Tetratheca ericifolia (Sm.), with which 

 Baron Mueller unites T. thymifolia (Sm.), and T. pilosa, (Labill.), 

 is on the mountains a solitary representative of an order widely 

 distributed in Western Australia ; whilst Bauera rubioides 

 (Andr.), of the Saxifragese, and Afonotaxis linifolia (Brongn.), of 

 Euphorbiacese, were collected in moist places. Of the Santalaceae, 

 Lep>tomeria acida (R. Br.), Omp)haGOineria acerba (A. DC), and 

 Choretrum GandoUei (F. v. M.), were fi-equent, as well as several 

 species of the Goodeniacese, Goodenia barbata (R. Br.), G. bellidi- 

 folia fSm.), G. heterophylla (Sm.), Damjnera stricta (R. Br.), 

 and D. Brownii (F. v. M.) / whilst of the Epacrids, EpacriSf 

 Leucopogon, MonotocJ, and Brachyloma were represented by a few 

 species. The terrestrial Orchids had nearly passed away, but I was 

 able to recognise Prasophylluvfi flavum (R. Br.), (a much larger 

 plant than that figured by Mr. Fitzgerald), P. nigricans (R. Br.), 

 Orthoceras strictum (R. Br.), Cryptostylls leptocliila (F. v. M.), 



