738 NOTES FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS, NO. X., 



from the Warrumbungle Ranges; P. lyhylicifolia belongs to the 

 group of species with apetalous flowers, and P. ledifolia has 

 petals; therefore the two species cannot be mistaken when seen 

 in flower. 



sapindacej:. 



DODONiEA FILIFOLIA, Hook. 



Howell, about 15 miles east of Inverell (J. L. Boorman; June, 

 1904). 



A new locality for a plant rare in this State. 



DODON^A TRUNCATIALES, F.V.M., Var. HETEROPHYLLA Var.nOV. 



Herb. Rev. Dr. WooUs, without locality or date; Bidden Road, 

 Gilgandra, and Mudgee Road, 4 miles from Dubbo (R. H. 

 Cambage; October, 1904). 



Leaves from linear to linear4anceolate, 2 to 3 inches long, 

 entire or irregularly pinnate with 1 to 7 leaflets. In none of 

 the specimens we have seen are the leaves regularly and con- 

 stantly pinnate, as in Bentham's Series v. Pinnatce. The leaves 

 are generally simple, but occasionally more or less completely 

 pinnate; the rhachis in the pinnate leaves is always winged, and 

 the leaflets are articulate on the rhachis, very much like the 

 irregularW compound leaves seen in Atalaya. 



Perhaps we can hardly call this form a good variety, but it is 

 interesting because it shows the tendency innate in Dodonseas to 

 revert to the ancestral pinnate-leaved form. In experiments on 

 the germination of Dodonseas, we have found that all those 

 simple-leaved species, of which we could procure seeds, have 

 pinnatifid first stem-leaves and gradually assume the adult foliage, 

 just as the Acacias have first bipinnate leaves and gradually 

 assume their characteristic phyllodia. 



LEGUMINOSJE (P A p I L I o N A c E .E.) 



Kennedya procurrens, Benth. 



Mount Dangar, Gungal, near Merriwa (J. L. Boorman; Sep- 

 tember, 1904). 



