BY J. H. MAIDEN. HI 



It is also interesting to observe that a few months' collecting 

 during two seasons (1885 and 1886), has resulted in the discovery 

 of six new species, every one of which seems to be restricted, as 

 far as is known, to a very small locality. 



Eriostemon Coxii is found on the Sugar Loaf Mountain, 3,800 ft., 

 a belt of the shrub encircling the top of the mountain, but not 

 reaching quite up to the top. Below the mountain, on its north- 

 eastern side, is a deep and narrow gorge, and on the highest 

 side forming this gorge, and opposite the mountain, in the 

 deep rich chocolate soil which produces the jungle (locally 

 called " brush "), there are a few more plants of it. These 

 attain the size of trees, being from 20 to 25 feet high, and having 

 a diameter of six to eight inches, while on the mountain, between 

 the rocks, the species remains a shrub from five to eight feet high. 

 When it is considered that the shrub flowers and seeds profusely, 

 it seems a remarkable fact that this species should have remained 

 restricted to so confined a locality. The few plants attaining tree 

 size in the rich soil of the brush are no doubt the offspring of 

 seeds carried from the mountain by birds, the distance from the 

 top of the mountain across the gorge being scarcely a mile. 



Hakea Macraeana associates with the preceding species, and is 

 (so far as is known), restricted to the same locality. Mr. Bauerlen 

 has as yet found only one tree on the south-eastern side of the 

 mountain, at a lower (a few hunded feet) elevation also in the 

 brush, but where the rock crops out again. 



Correa Bduerlenii is so far only known from the steep rocky 

 banks of two creeks taking their rise high up in the mountains 

 between Nelligen and the Sugar Loaf Mountain. 



The above three species occur on the granite formation. PuUencea 

 Bduerlenii occurs in one of the valleys or depressions of a wild 

 mountain called Currockbilly, in a part where there are running 

 streamlets, but where, nevertheless, the mountain is almost 

 destitute of trees. In the same valley Blandfordia nohilis finds 

 its southernmost limit. On one of the sides of the valley Boronia 



