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NOTES FROM THE BOTAKIC GARDENS, SYDNEY. 



No. 11. 



By J. H. Maiden and E. Betche. 



CRUCIFER^. 



LepidiUxM rotundum DC, var. phlebopetalum, var.nov. 



(Syn. Lepidium phlebopetalum F.v.M.). 



The West Australian Lepidium rotundum was added to the 

 flonn of New South Wales, in 1893, in Moore and Betche's Hand- 

 book of the Flora of New South Wales, from specimens trom 

 Byrock with such broad pod-wings that they could not \vell be 

 included in L. phlebo-petalum. Since then, more East as well as 

 West Australian material has passed through our hands, and has 

 convinced us that L. phlehopetalum cannot be upheld as a species. 

 Bentham remarked as early as 1863 (B.Fl. i. p.85) : — " L. pMeho- 

 petalum is very closely allied to L. rotundum,^ and perhaps a 

 variety only, scarcely differing from it except in the pod." We 

 now propose to reduce it to a variety of L. rotundum. 



CAPPAIIIDE.S:. 

 Capparis sarmentosa a. Cunn. — New for New South Wales. 



Acacia Creek, Macpherson Range, near the Queensland border 

 (J. L. Boorman; Feb. '05). 



Previously recorded only from Southern Queensland. Accord- 

 ing to the collector it is fairly common in the Acacia Creek district, 

 on the edges of scrubs. 



Capparis nobilis F.v.M., var. pubescens, Benth. 



Acacia Creek (J. L. Boorman; Feb. '05). 



Though we refer this plant to Bentham's var. pubescens, it 

 differs from it in the climbing habit. According to the 

 collector's notes it perfectly assumes the habit of a climber; 



