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CONTRIBUTIOISrS TO A KNOWLEDGE OF THE 

 FLORA OF AUSTRALIA. 



No. I. 



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



Museum, Sydney, 



(Plate X.) 



PITTOSPOREJE. 



*Cheiranthera filifolia, Turcz. — Walltingara, N.S.W. In 

 the open and on the slopes of granitic ridges (Mr. D. A. Porter). 



The specimen forwarded by Mr. Porter is a smaller plant than 

 any I have yet seen of C. linearis, A. Cunn., and agrees fairly 

 well with Bentham's description of C. filifolia, except perhaps in 

 the i-elative length of the anthers and filaments, — points, I find, 

 that are not constant ; and so with the balance of evidence 

 in favour of this species I now I'ecord it for Eastern Australia, 

 believing that further material will confirm my present determina- 

 tions. If this should prove not to be C. filifolia, A. Cunn., then 

 I think the latter name will have to be considered as a synonym 

 of G. linearis, Bentham himself stating (B.Fl. i. p. 127) that the 

 two are closely allied. 



STEKCULIACEffi. 



Seringia platyphylla, J. Gay. — Murwillumbah, Tweed River 

 (W. Bauerlen). 



TiLiACE.a;. 



El^ocarpus BABUERLENije/'.ir.i)/. et B.T.B. — Richmond River, 

 Emigrant Creek at Tintenbar and Byaneum, 5 miles from MuU- 

 umbimby, Tweed River (W, Bauerlen). 



* Species marked with an asterisk liave not previously been recorded 

 from New South Wales. 



