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BOTANICAL NOTES FROM THE TECHNOLOGICAL 

 MUSEUM, SYDNEY. 



No. I. 



By J. H. Maiden, F.L.S., and R. T. Baker, F.L.S. 



(Plate XV.) 



A N N A C E ^. 



Melodorum (L^nona) Leichhardtii, F.v.M. 



A plant showing an entire absence of tomentum is found near 

 Tintenbar, Riclimond River, N.S.W., collected by Mr. Bauerlen, 

 Botanical Collector to the Technological Museum, Sydney. It 

 may not here be out of place to refer to Bentham's query regarding 

 the flexuose nature of the branches of this species (B.Fl. Vol. i. 

 52). The species is mentioned by other authors except Mr. Bailey 

 (Syn. Qd. Flora) as a tree, but all specimens (which iuclude V)oth 

 the typical form and varieties) examined by us from the Richmond 

 River are from plants described as simple climbers or "straggling 

 vines." The plant goes by the name of " Vinegar Bottles," owing 

 to the aciJulousness of its fruits. 



It will be observed that the above notes mainly confirm the 

 correctness of Mueller's pre-Flora Australiensis description of 

 Uno7ia Leichhardtii ( Fragtnenta, iii. 41). 



L E G U M I N O S M. 



HovEA ACUTIFOLIA, A. Cunu. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 126, and 

 B.Fl. ii. 174. 



The pod of this species is undescribed in the above and later 

 works, Bentham expressly stating " pods not seen." In the 



