15,8 PLAKTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES ILLUSTRATED, 



PLANTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES ILLUSTRATED. 



By R. T. Baker, Assistant Curator, Technological Museum, 

 Sydney. 



No. vii. Genus Notothixos. 

 (Plate XI.) 



Genus Notothixos, Oliver, NO. Loranthacece ; B.Fl. iii. 397. 



This genus was established by Professor Oliver (Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. vii.), who describes, as the result of his careful researches, 

 three distinct species, which are united by Baron von Mueller 

 under the name of N. incanus in his Fragmenta Phytographise 

 (ii. 109, and iv. 178) and also in his Second Systematic Census of 

 Australian Plants (1889), but which, however, are ui)held by 

 Bentham in the Flora Australiensis, who says: — "It is possible 

 that N. suhaureus may prove to be a remarkable vai^iety of iV. 

 incanus which is only known from specimens with imperfectly- 

 developed inflorescence, but as yet intermediate forms have not 

 been observed, and N. cornifolius appears to me in all states to be 

 quite distinct." 



Through the kindness of Mr. J. H. Maiden, who placed his 

 herbarium at my disposal, and by my own collecting, I have 

 been enabled to bring together material which has assisted me to 

 amplify the descriptions given by the three previously mentioned 

 botanists, and to supply what appear to me the intermediate forms 

 referred to by Bentham. 



Whatever may be said of the claims of Forms i., ii., and iii. to 

 rank as species, I think with Oliver and Bentham that Forms iv. 

 and V. (collectively, A. cornifolius) should be regarded as having 

 good claim or right to specific rank, as the difference between the 



