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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



A letter was read from Baron von Mueller asking that in the 

 Abstract mention might be made of the fact that in his paper on 

 Mr. Bradshaw's Plants from Prince Regent River, read at last 

 meeting, he had pointed out that the genus Osteocarpum must be 

 restored, and that Babbagia as a sub-genus should merge in it. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited specimens of the scales of five species of 

 Psylla, and the perfect insects of three species, of which three are 

 from Limestone Creek, Yass ; the others from the neighbourhood 

 of Sydney. Also, specimens of Homopterous galls belonging to 

 the family Brachyscelidce, growing somewhat like Brachyscelis 

 pharefrata, but differing in the female gall being ribbed ; from 

 Yass, N.S.W. 



Mr. Maiden exhibited the kino and gum referred to in his 

 paper. Also Boronia Barkeriana, F.v.M., collected by Mr. J. 

 Stack at Little Sirius Cove, Port Jackson, believed to be the first 

 Sydney locality recorded for this species ; some of the lower 

 leaves are succulent, almost fleshy ; the odour is stronger than 

 that of B. serrulata. Also the following three plants new for 

 New South Wales: — Psilotum complanatum, Swartz. ; Ballina and 

 in the scrub along the coast northward, mostly on low swampy 

 ground ; found not rarely epiphytic on trunks of Ficus macro- 

 phylla chiefly, and also amongst masses of Platycerium alcicorne, 

 P. grande, and Asplenium nidus; fronds attain a length of 

 1-2 feet or more. Micromelum pubescens, Blume; near Lismore; 

 a small tree from 15-25 feet high among rocky places near 

 watercourses. Kibara (Mollinedia) longipes, Benth. ; rather 

 abundant on the higher ground near Lismore, Alstonville, Uralla, 

 and Tintenbar; seen as a straggling shrub 3-6 feet high as a 

 rule, but at Uralla as a small tree from 12-15 feet high and 

 3 or 4 inches in diameter. These three plants were collected by 

 Mr. W. Bauerlen, collector to the Technological Museum. 



