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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. J. H. Maiden exhibited the olive-green gum-resin and 

 fruits of Gardenia Aubryi, Vieillard, from New Caledonia. The 

 fruit is remarkable for its large calyx-limbs; and the resin, which 

 profusely exudes, has formed the subject of an exhaustive research 

 by Heckel and Schlagdenhauffen in the Repertoire des Pharmacie 

 for 1893. Also specimens of a Fig from the National Park, near 

 Sydney, which answers well to the description of the Queensland 

 Ficus Henneana, Miq., subject to examination of male flowers 

 which could not be detected in any of the over-ripe specimens 

 available this season. 



Mr. Waterhouse exhibited a collection of the species of the 

 genera Ogyris and Hesperilla in illustration of his paper. 



Mr. Cheel exhibited an interesting form of the fern Blechnum 

 cartilagineum, Sw., collected at Cundletown, Manning River, 

 showing many of the segments to be pinnatisect, giving the frond 

 the appearance of being bipinnatitid. 



Mr. Percy Williams showed a beautiful specimen of the rare 

 butterfly, Heteronympha paradeJpha, Lower, for some time known 

 only from Gippsland and the Fernshaw district in Victoria 

 (Anderson and Spry, " Victorian Butterflies"), but recently 

 recorded from New South Wales by Mr. Waterhouse (P.L.S. 

 N.S.W. 1897, p. 242). The specimen shown was caught by the 

 exhibitor at Berrima, N.S.W., on the 22nd of last January, in 

 company with a number of Xenica Khtgii, Guer., and H. merope, 

 Fabr. 



Mr. A. J. Campbell, of Melbourne, exhibited a number of 

 lantern slides illustrative of Australian birds, their nests and 

 eggs, photographed under natural conditions. 



