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N0TE8 FROM THE BOTAN^IC GARDENS, SYDNEY. 



No. 8. 

 By J. H. Maidex and E. Betche. 

 STERCULIACE^. 

 KekaudrExVIa Hillii, F.v.M. {Seringea Hillii, F.v.M,, m Census.) 



Jennings (J. L. Boorman; October, 1901). A new locality for 

 a rare plant. According to the collector it is a shrub about 6 to 

 8 feet high, with large blue flowers (not purplish as described in 

 Moore and Betche's 'Handbook of the Flora of New South Wales,' 

 from old specimens), growing on dry ridges amongst boulders, 

 about half a mile from the Queensland border. 



The gQiiu^ Kei-audrenia \^ confined to Australia with the excep- 

 tion of a single species which occurs in Madagascar. This 

 Madagascar plant is, according to Mueller's 'Census,' identical 

 with K. Hillii. It seems extraordinary that a rather local 

 Australian plant should recur alone in Madagascar, but we have 

 no means of verifying Mueller's statement. We observe (Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. xx., 104) that Madagascar also possesses one species 

 of RuUngia (also a Sterculiaceous genus), all the other Rulingias 

 being natives of Australia. 



RUTACE.a:. 



AsTEROLASiA CORREIFOLIA, Benth., var. MOLLIS (Syn. A. 7noUis, 



Benth.) 



Warrumbungle Ranges (W. Forsyth; October, 1899 and 1901). 



The specimens collected by Mr. Forsyth in the Warrumbungle 

 Ranges diifer from Bentham's description of A. mollis, made from 

 specimens collected by Eraser more than half a century previously 

 in the same locality (called Arbuthnot Range at that time), in the 

 lobed ovarium and in the long pedicels. The discrepancy in the 



