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nearly one inch in diameter, with a reddish epicarp, when mature, 

 and a nearly smooth putamen. This species appears to be limited 

 to the western portion of the continent. There are three other 

 indigenous species of Fusanus, viz., F. acuminatus R.Br., F. 

 persicarius F.v.M., and F. crassifolius R.Br., and all of them 

 appear to be endemic in Australia. F. acuminatus, the "Quan- 

 dong" or "Native Peach,'" is figured and fully described in 

 Turner's "Forage Plants of Australia" (non-grasses), p.91 . There 

 is a very distinct variety of this species with golden-yellow fruit, 

 which the exhibitor had named chrysocarpus, but it is not com- 

 mon. It is found west of Wyalong, in the Cobar district, and 

 on the eastern and western watershed of the Darling River in 

 New South Wales. F. persicarius, often popularly called "Native 

 Peach," and sometimes confused with the previously mentioned 

 species, has a similar geographical range, but its fruit is not 

 nearly so valuable from an economic point of view. This small 

 tree produces a globular, reddish fruit having a rather thin, dry 

 pericarp, and a minutely pitted putamen. F. crassifolius is a 

 dwarf shrub having small fruit of no known economic value. 

 The " Quandong " of the warmest coast districts is the fruit of 

 Elceocarpus grandis F.v.M. 



Mr. A. A. Hamilton exhibited a series of specimens from the 

 National Herbarium, comprising Curcurhita pepoUinn., "Pump- 

 kin" (Sydney Botanic Gardens; W. Ransley; April, 1914), por- 

 tion of a fasciated stem, showing the fusion, for part of their 

 length, of three branches, later reduced to two, and finally to a 

 single branch. The normal plant has simple leaves, distant 

 along the branches, but in the portion represented by the three 

 adherent stems, the leaves are in whorls of three, each having in 

 its axil a tendril, and at each joint a whorl of three rootlets is 

 noted. The length of the three-branched fasciated stem is 4 ft., 

 and that of the two-branched part 2 ft. 6 in. — Tetrago7iia expansa 

 Murr.,(McMahon's Point; W. M. Came; October, 1914) showing 

 heterotaxy. Adventitious buds are noted springing from the 

 base of the persistent lobes of the adnate calyx, subtended usually 

 by a spathulate leafy bract; in some cases the bract alone is 

 found. The llowers of this species are arranged in pairs in the 



