578 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Trebeck showed some caterpillars destructive to vegetation 

 from a garden at North Shore. 



Mr. F. Turner exhibited fruits and seeds of the Sweet Cassava 

 of Brazil (31anihot Aipi, Pohl), grown on the Clarence River by 

 Mr. J. Marchant; fruits and seeds of Sterculia acuminata, Beau v., 

 the famous Cola Nut, from Sierra Leone ; and the fruits of Emex 

 australis, Stienh., a really dangerous weed, probably introduced 

 from the Cape of Good Hope, which has become established in 

 several places in N.S.W. 



Baron von Mueller sent for exhibition a large selection from 

 the plants from Prince Regent River, described or recorded in his 

 paper, the same to be afterwards added to the Society's herbarium 

 Also a specimen of Hyjioestes moschata, F.v.M. and Holze. 

 remarkable for its musky odour j habitat, some distance inland 

 from Port Darwin. 



