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NOTES FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS, SYDNEY. 



No. 6. 



By J. H. Maiden and E. Betche. 



SAPINDACEiE. 

 DODON^EA PILIFOLIA, Hook. 



Penrith (J. L. Doorman, January, 1900). 



The second New South Wales locality recorded. Previously 

 collected in this colony only in the low land between Double Bay 

 and Bondi. (See Part 1 of this series, Proceedings, 1897, p. 147.) 



MYRTACE.E. 



Leptospermum scoparium, Forst., var. rotundifolium, var. nov. 



Tallwong, South of Shoalhaven River (W. Forsyth, January 

 1900). 



A very distinct-looking variety with shortly petiolate, nearly 

 orbicular leaves, about two lines in diameter, and with large 

 fruits and flowers. We have been in doubt whether this form 

 should be united with L. jlavescens, to which the obtuse leaves 

 and the long style point, or with L. scoparium; but we failed to 

 find any connecting links in the series of forms of L. jlavescens, 

 while we have evidence in the Herbarium of broad-leaved forms 

 of L. scoparium passing into the variety under notice. The 

 characteristic pungent points of the leaves of L. scoparium dis 

 appear gradually with the increase in breadth of the leaves. 



COMPOSITE. 



Helichrysum rosmarinifolium, Less., var stenophyllum, 

 var. nov. 



Jenolan Caves (W. F. Blakely, February, 1900). 

 Differs from the type chiefly in the very narrow and acute 

 leaves, about 1 inch in length, with closely revolute margins con- 



