BY J. H. MAIDEN AND E. BETCHE. '657 



The genus Lasiopetalum is generally characterized by very short 

 filaments; therefore the long filaments of L. longistamineum are a 

 very striking character. Benthara describes the filaments of R. 

 Brown's and A. Cunningham's specimens of L. jnacrophyllum as 

 " rather long," an expression quite unsuitable to the remarkably 

 long filaments of our new species; and Graham describes the 

 filaments of the type as "twice as long as the anthers," while they 

 are in our specimens fully four times as long. Another essential 

 difference is in the style. The style is glabrous in all New South 

 Wales species previously known, but stellate-hairy in L. longi- 

 stamineum; and Graham specially emphasises the glabrous style 

 in L. macrophylhun by writing " the style and the inside of the 

 calyx are the only parts attached to corymb which are glabrous." 

 Other distinctions of the two species are : in L. inacropliyllum 

 the segments of the calyx are ovate, and the ovarium is 4- or 5- 

 celled; in L. longistamineum the calyx-segments are narrower 

 and the ovarium is normally 3-celled. 



LINEiE. 

 Erythroxylon australe F.v.M. — New for N. S. Wales. 



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



Previously recorded from Queensland only. The collector 

 writes — " It is a shrub about 4 to 6 feet high, with weak rather 

 pendulous branches, not common in the district, on the sides of 

 one particular dry hill near the Queensland border." The fruits 

 are red when ripe, and in shape almost exactly like the illustra- 

 tion of the fruit of E. Coca Lam., in Engler's ' Natiirliche 



Pflanzenf amilien. ' 



RUTACE^. 



Boronia granitica, sp.nov. 



Howell, N.S. W. (J. H. Maiden and J. L. Boorman; Aug. '05). 

 A compact erect shrub from 3 to 6 feet high, with a stem over 



1 inch thick near the ground; and with densely stellate-hairy 

 young branches. Leaves pinnate, generally with 11 to 17 leaflets; 

 the leaflets linear-lanceolate with much recurved margins, about 



2 to 4 lines long, the terminal odd one the shortest; rhachis 



