696 NOTES ON THE NATIVE FLORA OF N. S. WALES, X., 



trunks up to two feet in diameter and a heiglit of twenty feet. 

 Some of the finest are growing in granite-formation around JBoo- 

 roomba (Plate Ixxiii.). Although this Honeysuckle always 

 avoids soils derived from basic rocks, it has a wide range, and 

 is doubtless the species referred to by Hume and Hovell as 

 occurring on the Yass Plains in 1824. 



The genus Loranthus (Mistletoes) appears to be only sparsely 

 represented in the Territory, and is practically confined to the 

 levels below about 3,000 feet. The Loranthus is not a lover of 

 extreme cold, and its general absence from part of the southern 

 hiiihlands was noticed some vears af^o,* while there is no record 

 of the genus occurring at all in Tasmania. 



Two species of Drosera (Sundews) w^ere collected, and from 

 the paper in which they were pressed, it has since been noticed 

 that when drying, specimens of D. peltata from Gudgenby at 

 4,500 feet, dyed the paper pink leaving the impression of stems 

 and flowers. 



Of the family Leguminosie, fifteen species of Acacia (Wattles) 

 were seen, and next after the Eucalypts this was the greatest 

 number of species found of any genus. 



The plants identified as A. obtusata, from Black Mountain, 

 sometimes reach 7 or 8 feet high. Around Mount Coree, they 

 are locally known as Blue Wattle, from the slight colouring some- 

 times appearing on the leaves and stems, though on many plants 

 the bark is reddish-brown. 



Acacia pravissima grows to a height of from 6 to 10 feet, with 

 somewhat pendulous branches. The pods ripen during the latter 

 part of December. 



Oxylobium alpestre was seen as spreading shrubs, semi-pros- 

 trate, above the 5,500 feet level on Bimberi, and it was noticed 

 that the womhats {Phascolomys mitchelli), which are fairly plenti- 

 ful at many places on these highlands, had undermined many of 

 these plants, upon the roots or possibly root-nodules of which 

 they evidently feed. 



* " Eastern Monaro," by R. H. Cambage. These Proceedings, 1909, 

 Vol. xxxiv,, p. 331. 



