64 NOTES FROM THE BOTAXIC GARDENS, NO. VIII., 



and receptacle is constant. The alpine forms of var. hypei-icina 

 have frequently coloured bracts and a tendency to nodding flower, 

 heads, and approach the new Kiandra form closely in habit. 



URTICACEiE. 

 Ficus Hbnneana, Miq. 



National Park, Port Hacking (M. Bell: February, 1900: J. L.. 

 Boorman; January, 1902). 



New for New South Wales. It seems very strange that a 

 Ficus described from specimens collected on the barren Booby 

 Island in Torres Strait (about 10° S. lat.j, and not recorded 

 further south than Rockingham Bay, Queensland, should recur 

 again in Port Hacking, near Sydney; but we have no doubt about 

 the correctness of the identification. The Port Hacking speci- 

 mens differ from the small specimen of Henne's type from Booby 

 Island only in the somewhat smaller size of the leaves. 



According to notes by Messrs. Bell and Boorman, the largest 

 of the few trees, growing near " Wentworth's Hut " in the 

 National Park, attains a trunk diameter of about 5 feet, with 

 gnarled spreading branches, and is probably considerably over 

 100 years old. The leaves are deciduous, but the trees remain 

 bare only a few weeks in the year before the appearance of the 

 new leaves. The ripe receptacles are reddish, spotted with white.. 

 Amongst the New South Wales species of Ficus, it is most nearly 

 allied to F. Cnnnhighamii, Miq., with which it has also the 

 deciduous leaves in common, but from which it is easil}^ dis- 

 tinguished by the larger and pedunculate receptacles, and by the 



shape of the leaves. 



CYPERACEiE. 



CvPERUS LAEViGATUS, Linn. 



Manning River (E. Cheel: December, 1899). 



New for New South AVales. An almost cosmopolitan species 

 found chiefly in maritime districts, and recorded in Mueller's 

 'Second Census' only from West Australia, although we have- 

 South Australian specimens from Port Lincoln and Mt. Lynd- 

 liurst. 



