102 NOTES FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS, 



cealing the white under surface. Florets often only 4 or 5 in the 

 flower-heads. 



EPACRIDEJE. 



Epacris Hamiltoni, sp. nov. 



A flattened shrub up to 3 feet high (see below), covered all 

 over with rather long, soft, white hairs, especially on the young 

 stems, more sparingly on the leaves. Leaves very shortly petiolate, 

 broad, lanceolate, 3- to rarely 5-veined underneath, pungent- 

 pointed, about 5 lines long. Flowers white, nearly sessile in 

 the uppermost axils, often apparently terminal, forming short 

 sparingly leafy heads. Bracts and sepals acute, glabrous but 

 generally minutely ciliate. Corolla-tube attaining 3 lines in 

 length, shortly exceeding the sepals, the lobes rather large but 

 shorter than the tube. Hypogynous scales short and broad. 

 Ovarium glabrous, style glabrous, much exserted, 5 to above 6 

 lines long, with a dilated stigma. 



Blackheath, Blue Mountains (A. A. Hamilton, January, 1900) 



Allied to E. paludosa and E. Calvertiana, but chiefly differing 

 from the former in the long style, and from the latter in the shape 

 of the corolla and in the inflorescence, and from both by the 

 remarkable degree of hairiness, so rare in the genus. Mr. 

 Hamilton's specimens are not in flower, but from the withered 

 remains of the corolla, prevented from dropping off by the long 

 style, we could fairly well describe its shape, though the 

 measurements may need revision when fresh flowers are available. 



Mr. Hamilton informs us that the plant is found at the base of 

 a ledge of rocks, and grows appressed to the face of the moist 

 rock, giving it a flattened or matted, in contradistinction to a 

 bushy, habit. The thickened, constricted rootstock has the 

 appearance of having grown in a confined situation, as in the 

 crevices of the rocks, though the plants are really growing in the 

 swampy ground which slopes abruptly to the water-course. 



B0RAGINE.E. 

 Heliotropium paniculatum, R.Br. 

 Bourke district (D. W. F. Hatten, March, 1900). 



