360 NOTES FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS, NO. XL, 



MiRBELIA AOTOIDES F.V.M. 



Boonoo Boonoo (J. L. Boorman, Nov. '04). 



A rather rare and imperfectly described plant. According to 

 the collector's notes it is a bushy rigid shrub, 4 to 7 feet high and 

 about 7 or 8 inches in diameter, growing by the side of running 

 water in sandstone formation. The leaves in our specimens are 

 not "almost pungent," as described by Bentham, but decidedly 

 pungent, and attain fully 1 inch in length. The flowers are 

 orange-coloured, in short racemes, terminal or in the upper axils, 

 often reduced to almost sessile clusters. In bud the racemes are 

 almost spike-like, with a dense tomentum on the rhachis, bracts, 

 pedicels and the calyces, the pedicels lengthening out in flower 

 and fruit. 



The specimens from Boonoo Boonoo are identical with Dr. 

 Beckler's type-specimen from Mt. Mitchell, except that the 

 inflorescence is much reduced in the latter specimen. 



Daviesia recurvata Maiden & R. T. Baker. 



Warialda (J. L. Boorman; July, '05; the most northerly locality 

 recorded) : Howell, near Inverell (on granite; J. H. Maiden and 

 J. L. Boorman; Aug. '05), 



The range of the species is now from the Rylstone to the 

 Warialda and Inverell districts. At Warialda it is fairly common 

 throughout the district in sandy soil, from the flats to the tops 

 of the hills, and attains a height up to 6 feet. At Howell it 

 seems less diffused and less robust. 



PULTEN.EA MOLLIS Lindl. 



Bidden Road, 7 miles from Gilgandra, Castlereagh River, north 

 of Dubbo (R. H. Cambage; Nov. '04). 



New for New South Wales; previously recorded for Victoria 

 and South Australia. Our specimens differ from the type in the 

 calyx, which has acuminate lobes much longer than the tube, and 

 smaller and narrower bracteoles attached higher up; but as this 

 is the only essential difference it seems not advisable to separate 



