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ON A SUPPOSED NEW GENUS OF THE N.O. 



MYRTACE.E. 



By R. T. Baker, F.L.S., Curator, Technological Museum, 



Sydney. 



(Plate XXVII.) 



The plant which forms the subject of this paper was obtained on 

 one of the high spurs radiating from Mount Corricudgy and 

 forming the watershed between the Red Water and an unnamed 

 stream; these waters eventually join and then enter the Widdin 

 Brook which flows north into the Goulburn River — a feeder of 

 the Hunter River. 



Mt. Corricudgy is the culminating peak of the main dividing 

 range which forms the watershed between the Hunter and 

 Capertee or Colo Rivers, and reaches a height of over 3,000 

 feet. The spurs running north towai'ds the Red Water are 

 very rugged and precipitous, and it is only with the very greatest 

 difficulty they can be ascended or descended. It is doubtful if 

 they had ever been visited by white men previous to this trip, 

 which was only possible through the courtesy of Mr. J. Dawson, 

 L.S. for the District, who had been authorised by the Government 

 to "traverse" this hitherto unsurveyed portion of N.S. Wales. 



Mr. Dawson admitted it was the roughest piece of field work 

 he had performed during his 24 years' experience of surveying. 



As this district had never before been botanically " worked," 

 and is almost inaccessible, one naturally expected to find some 

 undescribed plants, and I cannot say I was disappointed. From 

 my collection I now describe what I believe is an unrecorded 

 plant. It was found on the extreme end of a bold headland 

 facing Nulla Mountain, Widdin Brook meandering at the foot of 

 the ranges. 



