RECORDED BY BARON VON MUELLER, K.C.M.G., PH.D., F.R.S. 1107 



almost oval ; stigma slightly dilated ; fruits rather large, smooth t 

 nearly hemi-ellipsoid, with broadish base sessile, without denticula- 

 tions at the orifice ; valves deeply enclosed. 



On the northern side of the Lane Cove River, occupying sandy 

 ground on the ridges (H. Deane, Esq.). 



This plant is closely allied to M. parvijiora, which species, though 

 frequent along the whole southern and also extratropic western 

 coast-country, does not seem to follow the eastern shores of our 

 continent, unless the present plant should prove an outpost of the 

 large individual masses of the species, and should have become 

 somewhat changed by altered climatic influences. The leaves are 

 larger, straighter and less acute, with a more evident lateral 

 nervature, resembling rather those of Leplospermum Icevigatum ; 

 the spikes so far as seen are shorter, the fruits are considerably 

 larger, and do not retain the calyx-lobes. Mr. Betche seems to have 

 found the identical plant on the Richmond River ; but I have not 

 seen any fruiting specimens from there. 



While alluding to a new plant of this genus, the following 

 localities of other rare species may now be recorded : M. hyperici- 

 folia, Broger"s Creek, up to 1,800 feet, there attaining a height of 

 1 5 feet (Biiuerlen) ; M. elliptica and M. adnata, near Mount Rugged 

 (Miss S. Brooke) ; M. thymijolia, Cudgegong (Dr. Barnard), Upper 

 Clarence River (Miss Brendodi) ; M. erianthv, near Beverley (Miss 

 Smith) ; 31. foliolosa, Endeavour River (W. Persieh) ; Mitchell and 

 Flinders Rivers (Edw. Palmer) ; height of the last-named species 

 to 20 feet, its bark lamellar. 



Bossiaea Stephensonii, n. sp. 



Erect, almost totally glabrous ; branchlets rather slender, 

 conspicuously compressed ; stipules comparatively large, from a 

 roundish-broad base nearly lanceolar, of almost foliaceous 

 texture ; leaves elliptic-lanceolar, pointed, slightly rough, hardly 

 paler beneath, gently recurved at the margin ; stalklets twice or 

 thrice as long as the small calyx ; its bracteoles basal ; upper half 

 of the calyx not much shorter than the lower, its lobes almost 

 deltoid ; lobes of the lower half semi-lanceolar ; fruit somewhat 



