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



OLEACEiE. 

 Jasminum simplicifolium, Foist. 



Grafton to Dalmorton (J. H. Maiden and J. L. Boorman; 

 November, 1903). 



Forms of transition between two recognised species are of 

 rather common experience in the flora of Xew South Wales. 

 This form of Jasmimim is a striking case in point; it stands 

 ahnost intermediate between J. siinplici/vliuiu smd J. suavissimum, 

 Lindl. The leaves are much narrower and the cal3'x-teeth longer 

 than in all forms of J. si7nj)licifolium we ha\e previously seen, 

 but, on the other hand, the leaves are broader and the calyx- 

 teeth much shorter than in the typical J. suavissimum. On the 

 whole, taking habit and all minor characters into consideration, 

 we think it should be placed with J. simplicifolium, as an extreme 

 narrow-leaved form. 



ASCLEPIADACE^. 



Parsonsia rotata, sp.nov. 



Hastings River (Forester G. K. Brown; no date; about 1890); 

 Lismore (W. Bauerlen; February, 1891); Burringbar, between 

 Tweed and Richmond Rivers (E. Betche; April, 1896); Port 

 Macquarie (J. H. Maiden; November, 1897). 



A tall glabrous climber. Leaves from elliptical to lanceolate, 

 nearly equally rounded at both ends and abruptly drawn out to 

 a point, or gradually narrowed at the apex and almost truncate 

 at the base, rarely narrowed at the base, dark green above, paler 

 underneath, the largest seen 4J inches long and 2J inches broad. 

 Petiole \ to above h inch long. Flowers axillary and terminal, 

 few in the inflorescence (not above 8 in all specimens seen), in an 

 almost umbel-like contracted cyme, the common peduncle about 

 J inch long, the pedicels shorter. Calyx-lobes about 1 line long, 

 rather unequal. Corolla rotate, cream-coloured, perfectly glabrous 

 outside, the tube as long as the calyx, the spreading lobes oblong, 

 fully twice as long, with a dense fringe of hairs at the base, 

 extending in a ring round the top of the tube. Stamens inserted 

 near the base of the corolla, with long filaments spirally twisted 



