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ullied to L. setf'ger, R.Br., to be separated from it as a species, 

 but we would like to further study the variations of that species 

 before proposing a change. 



MoNOTOCA LEDiFOLiA, A. Cunn. 



Woronora River (E. Betche ; Januar\^, 1894: E. Oheel ; 

 October, 1901). 



Previously only recorded from the Blue Mountains, but 

 apparently not uncommon at the head waters of the coastal rivers 

 in the Port Jackson sandstone district. 



SOLANE.S:. 

 Anthocbrcis scabrella, Benth. 



Wallangarra (J. L. Boorman; October, 1901), 



A rare plant, previously onh^ recorded from a single locality, 

 viz., "Nepean River in the Blue Mountains," In the Wallangarra 

 localit}^ it is a much spreading and intricately branched shrub not 

 a,bove 2 feet high, growing on sparsely timbered dry rocky hill 

 sides. The peduncles are shorter than in the type and often 

 apparently axillary, though in reality terminal on very short 

 branchlets in the axils of the leaves. In the Nepean River 

 locality (J. H. ]\[aiden has collected it at Erskine Creek, Nepean 

 River, 10 miles from Penrith) the shrub is about 3 to 4 feet high, 

 with considerably longer filiform peduncles. 



VERBENACEJE. 

 Gmelina Leichhardtji, F.v. M. 



Botanic Gardens, Sydney (cultivated, April, 1902). 



This is the first time that we have noticed ripe fruits on the 

 tree in the Gardens; and as the fruits are not described in the 

 ^ Flora Australiensis' we give a short description of them: — Fruits 

 of a dull mauve, almost blue colour, somewhat depressed-globular, 

 nearly 1 inch in diameter; always provided with the persistent 

 flattened out and enlarged calyx. 



