404 NOTES ON THE FLORA OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS, 



phylla K.Br.,(l), (2), Lawson to Mt. Wilson; E. (qnculata A. 

 Cunn., Wentworth Falls, Leura (Leura Falls), Blackheath (near 

 Wall's Caves), in swampy detritus at the base of drippino" rocks: 

 E. ])urpurascens R.Br., Leura; E. onosmcejlora A. Cunn., Black- 

 heath (top of Govett's Leap), Mt. Victoria, Lithgow. 



\^E. 7'uscifolia B.Br., (non Sieb.) is mentioned by Allan Cun- 

 ningham in Barron Field's New South Wales, 340, as a depressed 

 shrub on moist rocks. King's Tableland. In the Flora Austr., 

 iv., 235, R. Brown's E. ruscifolia is referred by Bentham to E. 

 irtipressa Labill., and E, vnscifoJia Sieb., (non Br.) is held to be 

 synonymous with E. reclinata A. Cunn. The latter species, with 

 the exception of one of its forms resultant from environment 

 (TheseProceedings, 1914, p. 543), agrees both in habit and habitat 

 with Cunningham's statement in Field's New South Whales 

 respecting E. ruscifolia R.Br., and is quite distinct from E. im- 

 pressa Labill., which is described and figured in Labillardiere's 

 Plantse Novae Hollandise, i., 43, t.58, as a shrub of 3 feet (Frutex 

 semiorgyalis), and a reference is made to the five cavities at the 

 base of the corolla (tubus .... cavitatibus quinque versus basim 

 extus impressus) which form the characteristic external impres- 

 sions from which the specific name is derived; while E. reclinata 

 is found reclining (and specifically named from this habit) on 

 moist, shelving rocks among ferns and sphagnum moss in the 

 Blue Mountain gorges. No impressions are found in the corolla 

 of E. reclinata, which is endemic on the Blue Mountains. E. 

 impressa is (in New South Wales) found only in the extreme 

 southern districts, and has not been collected on the Blue 

 Mountains. In the Flora of Tasmania, i., 257, Sir. J. D. Hooker 

 doubtfully refers E. ruscifolia R.Br., to E. reclumta A. Cunn., 

 and includes, under that species, two specimens with Gunn's Her- 

 barium Nos.857 (which he also queries) and 858, giving, as one 

 of the localities in its distribution, the Blue Mountains, A. Cunn. 

 In a footnote, he says : — " This again [Gunn's 858] approaches 

 very closely indeed to states of E. impressa, to which Gunn is 

 inclined to refer some of his specimens; it, however, appears to 

 differ in the low, more or less procumbent, straggling habit. . . . 

 Sieber's No.82 (in Herb. Hook.) does not appear distinct from 



