BY J. H. MAIDEN AND E. BETCHE. 63 



LAURINEJE. 



LiTSBA RETICULATA, Beufcli. [Tefyrantheva reticulata^ Meissn.). 



Wyong (J. L. Boorman; February, 1900). 



Recorded in the 'Flora Australiensis' only from Queensland. 



It has been long known to be not uncommon in the northern 

 brush-forests of New South Wales (see a note by one of us in 

 Agric. Gazette of N.S. Wales, Vol. v. [1894], p. 826), and now 

 its range has been traced as far south as Wyong. 



PR0TEACE5:. 

 Banksia ericifolia, Linn. f. 



Byron Bay (A. H. Hammond; April, 1902). 



Most northern locality recorded for New South Wales, the 

 Hastings River being hitherto the most northerly record for this 

 State. It is, however, admitted by F. M. Bailey in his 'Queensland 

 Flora,' with the note : " Recorded for Queensland by F.v.M. 

 without locality." 



THYMELE^. 



PixMELEA LiGUSTRiNA, Labill, var. GLABRA, vai'.nov. 



Kiandra District (fruiting specimens ; E. Betche, February, 

 1897), Kiandra District (flowering specimens ; W. Forsyth, 

 December, 1901). 



A small bushy shrub about 18 inches high, with crowded erect 

 oblong leaves from 5 to 8 lines long. Flower-heads nodding, 

 with 6 to 8 large involucral bracts glabrous inside, and of a 

 purplish cast when in fruit. Receptacle glabrous. Persistent 

 base of the calyx glabrous from the first, on short glabrous stalks; 

 calyx-tube glabrous, the lobes generally sparingly hairy. 



Bentham's type-specimens of var. macrosteyiay collected by 

 Waterhouse in sandy scrub in Kangaroo Island, differ from the 

 Kiandra specimens only in the hairy receptacle, and possibly in 

 the size of the shrub,, which is not stated by Waterhouse. 

 Perhaps our new variety should be a distinct species, but we are 

 not sure whether the absence of hairs on the involucral bracts 



