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NOTES FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS, SYDNEY. 



No. 7. 

 By J. H. Maiden and E. Betche. 



MALVACE-ffi. 

 Plagianthus pulchellus, a. Gray, var. tomentosus. Hook. 



Queanbeyan (W. Farrer, October, 1897); Jenolan Caves (W. 

 F. Blakely, October, 1899); Tumberumba (W. Forsyth, November, 

 1900). 



The tomentose variety of Plagianthus pulchellus is common in 

 Tasmania and Victoria, but has not been previously recorded 

 from New South Wales. 



TILIACEiE. 



El^ocarpus grandis, F.v.M. ■ 



Way Way Creek, Nambucca River (G. R. Brown, December, 

 1900). The most southern locaHty recorded. 



RUTACE.S:. 

 ZiERiA Smithii, Andr., var. Fraseri, F.v.M. (unpublished). 



Wailangarra (E. Betche, December, 1891); Mograni Mountain, 

 near Gloucester (J. H. Maiden, September, 1897). 



A shrub several feet high, with tomentose young branches. 

 Leaflets lanceolate, with recurved margins, about J inch long, 

 glabrous above, white-tomentose underneath. A very distinct 

 variety, apparently connecting Z. Smithii with Z. cytisoides, Sm. 



