774 NOTES FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS, SYDNEY. 



intermediate localities only that of Expedition Range, Queens- 

 land, is known to us, though probably it will be found in the dry 

 western spurs of the Great Dividing Range after a thorough 

 botanical exploration of the colony. The Harvey Range speci- 

 mens do not attain more than 3ft. in height, as far as seen, while 

 the Expedition Range specimens are described as 10ft. high; 

 furthermore they differ from the original description (F.v.M. 

 Fragm. vi. p. 22) in the rather smaller and narrower leaves, the 

 longer pedicels, and the flowers being generally 5-merous. Mueller 

 describes the cal3'x-]obes, petals and ovarium-cells as six or seven 

 in number, but to judge from the single small original specimen 

 now in the Melbourne Herbai-ium, he had only scanty material at 

 his disposal and may hare described the flowers from abnormal 

 specimens. It is a most profuse flowerer, and the large size of 

 the flowers combined with the unusual colour (a deep mauve or 

 light purple) render it a most desirable plant for cultivation. 



Harvey Ranges, near Peak Hill, N.S.AV. (J. H. Maiden, Sep- 

 tember, 1898). 



EPACRIDE.ffi. 



RupicoLA,* gen.nov. 



Calyx consisting of five sepals. Corolla normally 5-cleft, with 

 a very short tube and with spreading segments quincuncially 

 imbricate in bud. Stamens attached to the base of the corolla- 

 tube, shorter than the corolla; anthers adnate, 2-celled, connivent 

 round the style but not cohei'ing, opening introrsely by a single 

 short terminal slit. Hypogynous disc inconspicuous. Ovary 

 5 celled, with numerous ovules in each cell attached to an 

 elongated placenta near the top of the axis; style filiform, inserted 

 in a tubular depression of the ovary. Capsule and seeds not 

 seen. Shrub with shortly petiolate narrow leaves and solitary 

 axillary flowers on peduncles shorter than the leaves, covered 

 with bracts passing gradually into the sepals. 



* From rupes-is, a cliff, and cola an inhabitant, iu allusion to the situa- 

 tions it frequents. 



