712 PLANTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 



WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31st, 1881. 



The President, J. C. Cox, M.D., E.L.S., &c, in the Chair. 



MEMBER ELECTED. 



Mr. J. G. Griffin, C.E., of Tamworth. 



DONATIONS. 



Museum D'Histoire Naturelle Paris, annual reports for 1879-80 



From Friedlander and Sons, Bibliotheca Historico-Naturalis 

 et Mathematica. 



Journal of the Eoyal Microscopical Society of London, 1881. 



Eoyal Society of Edinburgh, Proceedings, Vol. X. 



Zoological Station, Naples, Trans. Vol. II., part 4. 



Eoyal Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam, Trans. Nat. Hist. 

 Branch, 2 series, Vol. XV., and Annual Report for 1879. 



Eoyal Society of New South "Wales, List of Exchanges and 

 Presentations, 1881. 



TAPERS READ. 



On ttie Plants of New South Wales — No. IV. 



By the Eev. Dr. Woolls, D.D., E.L.S., &c. 



" The Sub-class IE, Monopetalrc, is very extensive, and the 

 species described in the Flora Australiensis range from Vol. III., 

 p. 386 to Vol. V., p. 142. So far as the limits of these species 

 are yet recorded, the following is the approximate result : 



Orders. Genera. Species. 



Victoria .. .. 25 .. 142 .. 326 



New South Wales 80 . . 201 . . 654 



Queensland .. 28 .. 239 .. 596 



When the floras of particular districts in Eastern Australia, 



are more carefully observed and the limits of indigenous plants 



