632 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. A. H. S. Lucas showed evidence of Japanese botanical 

 activity in the Caroline Islands. 



Mr. Turner said that he had recently seen three abnormal 

 heads of flowers of the Waratah {TeJoj)ea speciosisshna R.Br.) on 

 a plant growing in a garden at Chatswood, in which the involu- 

 cral bracts and flowers were normal, but there was present an 

 intermediate whorl of green leaf -like structures. He remarked 

 also that he had collected T. oreades F.v.M., at Fitzroy Falls, 

 and asked if this species was known from any locality still further 

 to the north. 



Mr. A. S. Le Souef exhibited a broken tusk of a male elephant, 

 fourteen years old, now in the Taronga Park Zoological Gardens. 

 The tusks of this animal were abnormally long for their girth. 

 The exhibit weighed 14 lbs. 



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Mr. Tillyard showed specimens representing five new species 

 of Perlid(f, reared from larvte recently collected by him at 

 Orange, N.S.W., and two from Stanwell Park. Also the larva 

 of a Buffalo-gnat {Simulium, n.sp.) from the former locality. 



Mr. Cheel exhibited specimens of three species of " Evening 

 Primrose". (1) Oenothera odorafaJa,e(\., a native of Chile, figured 

 in Bot. Mag. tab. 2403, is very common throughout the State, 

 but has evidently been mistaken for GJ. biennis L., hence the 

 record in Moore and Betche's Handbook of the Flora of N. S. 

 Wales, p.523. Specimens of (E. odorata have been collected by 

 the exhibitor from Hill Top, Southern Line, and from Woy Woy, 

 Northern Line. In the National Herbarium, there are also 

 specimens from the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, Richmond; 

 Emu Plains, Bega, Blackheath, Jenolan Caves, Orange, Wagga, 

 Wallenbeen, Cootamundra, Bathurst, and Barber's Creek. Also 

 from Claremont, W.A.; and Murray Bridge, S.A. It is inter- 

 esting to note that it is listed in Mr. J. M. Black's Naturalised 

 Flora of S.A. (1909), 63, but has not previously been recorded 



[Printed off' 5th December, 1916.] 



