364 NOTES FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS, SYDNEY, XIV., 



FICOIDE^. 

 Macarthuria NEO-CAMBRICA, F.V.M. 



Tomago, Hunter River (J. H. Maiden; May, 1908). The most 

 southern locality recorded. 



Bentham gives only one locality, Tweed River; and in the 

 Herbarium we have it from only two localities, Byron Bay and 

 Richmond R,iver. 



LAURACE^. 



Cassytha filiformis L. New for New South Wales. 



Coff's Harbour (J. L. Boorman; May, 1909). 



The species has a wide range over the maritime districts in 



tropical Asia, Africa, and America; but has been, in Australia, 



previously only recorded from Queensland. It is evidently very 



closely allied to the common New South Wales G. paniculata 



R.Br., from which it can hardly be distinguished without fruits; 



but the fruits of the Coff's Harbour specimens are quite smooth, 



while the fruits of C . paniculata are distinguished by six raised 



longitudinal ribs. 



LABIAT-E. 



Prunella vulgaris L. var. laciniata Benth.(P. laciniata L.). 



Mittagong (Henry Deane; November, 1900); Wingello ( J. L. 

 Boorman; December, 1900); Bowral (Wm. Greenwood; March, 

 1909). 



Red and white flowering specimens of Prunella, received 

 recently from Mr. Greenwood, drew our attention to this 

 unrecorded variety, distinguished from the typical P. vulga^^is by 

 the white flowers and laciniate leaves. Var. laciniata seems not 

 to be uncommon in New South Wales, but it has never been 

 recorded, as far as we know. Opinions differ as to whether it is 

 a variety of the common cosmopolitan P. vulgaris, or a distinct 

 species. In the " Index Kewensis " it is regarded as distinct from 

 P. vulgaris, while Bentham reduces it to a variety of P. vulgaris 

 in De Candolle's Prodromus (Vol.xii., p. 4 11); the fact that both 

 are now recorded for Australia speaks iti favour of Bentham's 

 view. 



