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peduncles, and approach the Tasmanian D. ericifolia so closely,, 

 that it becomes a matter of doubt and difficulty to decide to 

 which of the two species they should be attributed. Bentham 

 writes in 1863 in a footnote to the description of D. ericifolia in 

 the Flora Australiensis : — " The station Port Jackson, usually 

 given on the authority of plants raised in Kew Gardens is, I 

 believe, erroneous; the seeds were probably from Fraser, who 

 gathered the plant on S. Esk River in Tasmania." 



It seems to us more likely that the supposed mistake did not 

 occur, and that the Kew Gardens plants in question were raised 

 from seeds really collected near Sydney, but determined at that 

 time at Kew as D. ericifolia, so that the discovery of D.filifolia 

 in the Port Jackson district may be only the rediscovery of a 

 lost locality. Now, we are sorry to say, I), filifolia seems to be 

 fast dying out in the Port Jackson district; hardly half a dozen 

 plants could be found in 1896 in the same locality in which it 

 abounded in 1883, 



{h). Plants New for New South Wales. 



LEGUMINOS^. 



Acacia alpina, P.v.M. 



Summit of Mt. Tabletop, near Kiandra (E. Betche, February, 

 1897). Previously recorded from alpine summits of Victoria. 

 In addition to Mt. Tabletop it has been found on the top of two 

 other mountains near Kiandra, always strictly confined to the 

 wind-swept summit, where it forms dense patches, often more 

 than ten feet in diameter and about two or three feet high. 



It may be of interest to mention here that Ricliea Giinnii, 

 Hook., first discovered in N.S. Wales as recently as 1893 by Mr. 

 R. Helms on Mt. Kosciusko, is common in nearly all the swamps 

 near Kiandra, an indication of how imperfectly the Kiandra dis- 

 trict has been botanically explored. 



