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COMPOSITE. 



Brachycome iberidifolia Benth. New for New South Wales. 



Waverley Downs to Hungerford, Paroo River (J. L. Boorman; 

 October, 1912). 



The species is very common in Western Australia, and it is also 

 recorded from North Australia, but from no other State. As our 

 specimens come from the north-west corner of New South Wales, 

 not many miles from the border of Queensland, and also not far 

 from the border of South Australia, it seems likely that both 

 Queensland and South Australia will be added to the range of the 

 species, when the flora of the interior of Australia is better known. 



Pluchea baccharoides F.v.M. New for New South Wales. 



Waverley Downs to Hungerford (J. L. Boorman; October, 1912). 



Previously recorded from Queensland and North Australia. 



According to the collector's notes, it is, in the New South Wales 

 locality, a showy shrub of 3 to 5 feet in height, with the aspect of a 

 cultivated Eupatorium; the florets are much longer than the invo- 

 lucre, and the tips of the pappus are of a pale purplish colour. 



Podolepis cupulata, n.sp. 



Wanganella, near Hay (Miss Edith Officer; October, 190?). 



Planta annua, erecta, ramosissima, circiter 15 cm. alta, parciter 

 lanuginosa. Folia laneeolata, basi decurrenti amplexantia, inferi- 

 ora circiter 5 cm. longa, superiora breviora et basi latiora. Florum 

 capita numerosa, in pedunculis brevibus, rigidis et filiformibus. 

 Involucrum cylindricum vel fere campanulatum, circiter 6 mm. 

 longum, squamis laevibus et fimbriatiusculis. Involueri squamse 

 exteriores, sessiles, latse et obtusse, mediaa breve unguiculatae lamina 

 magna et acuta, interiores unguibus rigidis, erectis, linearibus et 

 laminis parvis. Flosculi circiter 40, omnes fere asquales, exteriores 

 interioribus majores, nulli ligulati. Achenae planum factas (matu- 

 ras non vidimus) circiter 10 pappi setis, basi barbellatis. 



An erect annual, much-branched from the root, 5 to 6 inches 

 high and up to 8 inches broad in the specimens seen, very sparingly 

 woolly-hairy, or almost glabrous in age. Radical leaves not seen. 



