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prolific seedbearer, which seems to have escaped from cultiva- 

 tion.— (3) For Mr. Clements, of Stanmore, a fasciated branch of 

 Rhus succedaQiea Linn., the " Red Lac-Sumach " of Japan, from 

 his garden at Stanmore, not seen in this condition before. 



Mr. K. Cheel exhibited some interesting, abnormal specimens 

 of the common Waratah ( Telopea speciossima R.Br.;. One, from 

 Gosford, cultivated by Mr. A. E. Keen, communicated by Mr. 

 A. F. Basset Hull, had a terminal raceme, which measured 11 

 inches across the outspreading bracts, and 5| inches across the 

 globular raceme of flowers, the latter being about 5|- inches in 

 depth, from apex to base. In addition to the terminal raceme, 

 there were four well-formed racemes in the axils of the upper 

 leaves, immediately beneath the terminal or main one on the 

 same stem. The leaves were also of an uncommon character 

 being about 7 inches long and 4 inches wide, more or less wedge- 

 shaped, with the apex almost truncate.* A second, from Hill 

 Top, main Southern Line, 69 miles from Sydney (E. Cheel;, had 

 eight well-formed panicles in the axils of the upper leaves, imme- 

 diately beneath the main, terminal raceme, the latter measuring 

 7t^ inches across the bracts, and the unexpanded raceme of 

 flowers 3ij* x 2| inches. 



Mr. Fletcher showed specimens of a fourth, rare, crimson- 

 flowered Callistemon from the Lane Cove district, which he was 

 unable to identify. Mr. Cheel expressed the opinion that De 

 Candolles name, C. linear if olius, should be revived for these, 

 and some other similar specimens from the County of Cumber- 

 land, which he had seen, Mr. Hentham having rejected it as 

 applicable apparently only to one of several garden-varieties. 



* For a previous note on the me.'\sureinent>< of leaves, see these Proceed- 

 ings, 1914, p.;V2.'). 



