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Mr. Cheel exhibited specimens of two plants, namely : — 

 Sterculia diversifolia, G. Don, from between Peakhurst and 

 Bankstown, one tree being 11 ft. in circumference, at a height 

 of 4 ft. 6 in. from the ground; and (2) Juncus ccespititius, E. Mey., 

 from the Centennial Park swamps, an addition to the Port 

 Jackson flora; previously recorded from the South Coast District 

 and the Dividing Range. It is somewhat remarkable that there 

 should be so few definitely recorded New South Wales habitats 

 for the first of these species — the well known Kurrajong — 

 especially in the coastal district. Under the name of Brachy- 

 chiton j^oj^ulneu'in, Robert Brown says of it, " in ora orientali, extra 

 tropicum, Novae Hollandise ann. 1803-4 legi " (Plantse Javan. 

 Rar. Part iii. p. 234), but without any further mention of the 

 habitat ; and Brown's specimens are not referred to by Bentham 

 in the "Flora Australiensis." Under the same name it is also 

 mentioned by Dr. Woolls in his " Plants Indigenous, &c., in the 

 Neighbourhood of Sydney," but without any indication of definite 

 habitat. 



Mr. Fred. Turner exhibited specimens of — (1) Symplocos 

 thwaitesii, F.v.M., collected at the base of Mount Dromedary, 

 N.S.W., which is believed to be the most southerly habitat yet 

 recorded for this most beautiful flowering Australian shrub or 

 small tree. (2) Cuscuta australis, R.Br., from a lucerne paddock 

 on the Hunter River, the crop being almost entirely destroyed 

 by this parasitic plant in one season. So far as he had observed, 

 and his observations had been fairly extensive, this native 

 dodder is more vigorous in habit than the two exotic dodders, 

 Cuscuta trifolii and C. epithytnum, which may often be seen 

 growing in lucerne fields. 

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