BY R. T. BAKER. 663 



The largest and most conspicuous Acacia in the Western plains 

 of this colony, attaining a height of 60-80 feet and a diameter of 

 3 feet. The timber is hard, close-grained, interlocked, of a deep- 

 red or darkish colour, and possesses a beautiful figure, so that it 

 is one of the most ornamental of our timbers. 



It can hardly be doubted but that it must have been collected 

 b}' early botanists in this colony, but Bentham only records it 

 from Queensland (B.Fl. ii. 390). 



A. cardiophylla, A. Cunn. — Eight and a half miles east of 

 Wyalong, N.S.W., the farthest south-west locality (R. H. 

 Cambage). 



MYRTACE.E. 



Rylstonea cernua, Baker. — In the Society's Proceedings for 

 1899 (p. 643), Messrs. Maiden and Betche endeavoured to show 

 that my genus Rylstonea is identical with their species Verticordia 

 Damoinioides, and in a tabulated form give the affinities and 

 differences of individual characters of the two shrubs, stating at 

 the same time that it was still from incomplete material that 

 their deductions were made. Even in their own tabulation of 

 specific characters it will be seen that the differences are well 

 marked in the two plants, and certainly warrant their being- 

 separated. 



That I " did not refer to the obvious affinity " of my plant to 

 theirs was because there appeared so much uncertainty and doubt 

 surrounding their plant that no one could say what it was 

 eventually going to be, for according to their own admission " it 

 was ati abnormal and starved form " they had to work upon. 

 Complete material of their plant is still wanting to discuss its 

 merits to systematic rank 



The statement that the calyx of Verticordia is hemispherical is 

 challenged, and V. Wilhelmii, F.v.M., is quoted as proof to the 

 contrary. Bentham's words are (B.Fl. iii. 16) : — " Calyx hemi- 

 spherical, turbinate rarely cylindrical;" but in no instance does 

 he state definitely concerning a species that the calyx is cylindrical. 



