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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Messrs. Maiden and Betche exhibited Xeplielium distyle, F.v.M. 

 and j\^. divaricatum, F.v.M., now recorded for the first time from 

 Is'ew South Wales. JSf. distyle was collected by C. Moore or 

 Carron about 1850; specimen kindly communicated by Mr. J. G. 

 Luehmann, Melbourne. Collected also at Ballina, Lismore, Tin- 

 tenbar and Lismore in October, 1891, and also at Murwillumbah 

 in October, 1892; also by W. Bauerlen (Technological Museum). 

 Bauerlen's Tintenbar specimens have ripe fruits and show that it 

 is a true Kephelium, as maintained by Mueller, and not a Ratonia 

 as placed by Bentham in the Flora Aiistrcdiensis. y. divari- 

 catum was collected by Beckler on the Clarence River about 

 1857; specimens kindly communicated by Mr. J. G. Luehmann, 

 of Melbourne Also collected at Lismore (W. Bauerlen; Feb- 

 ruary, 1891); Cape Byron (E. Betche; March, 1896); Port 

 Macquarie (G. R. Brown; November, 1896). 



Mr. Maiden exhibited specimens of the five species of Opuntia 

 (Prickly Pear), viz., 0. ficus-indica, 0. Tuna, 0. monacantha, 0. 

 brasiliensis, and 0. vulgaris, that are legislated against in this 

 colony. He also exhibited 0. stricta, Haw., (Syn. 0. iJiermis, 

 DC), which although thoroughly acclimatised in the colony has 

 not hitherto been recorded. Mr. Maiden stated that he is 

 engaged on a descriptive and illustrated account of the Prickly 

 Pears for the Department of Agriculture, and would be glad if 

 any apparently unusual ones were brought under his notice. 



Mr. Maiden also exhibited the inspissated juice of cultivated 

 trees of Cerbera Manghas, Bot. ]\Iag. (Syn. C. Odollam, Gaertn.) 

 from New Caledonia. The substance appears to possess proper- 

 ties intermediate in character between india-rubber and gutta- 

 percha, but the exhibitor had not hitherto been able to find any 



record of it. 

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