by the rev. b. scortechini, f.l.s. 173 



Jasmines. 



Notelea linearis, Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 300. 



Very plentiful down the creek a short distance from town, 

 growing among boulders. The dark red, and occasionally white 

 drupes, which were rather abundant on the branches, have 

 been the only data remaining for the determination of the species. 



Proteace^e. 



Hakea microcarpa, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc, X, 182. 



The flowers were not obtainable to see the sectional characters 

 of this species, still the leaves, the horned fruit, and form of seed 

 wing afford enough evidence for its recognition. Rather plentiful 

 along the sandy banks of the creek. 



Hakea dactyloides Cav., Ann., Hist., Nat., I, 213. 



Unfortunately the flowers of this species too were wanting at 

 the time the specimens were collected. By a process of analytical 

 reasoning alone I was able to arrive at framing a nearly certain 

 estimate as to the identity of the specimens with H. dactyloides. 

 Of section Grevilloides to H. trineura alone it could approach, but 

 the short clusters of flowers as the position of the fruits suggest 

 remove it not alone from H. trineura, but from the whole section. 

 In section Euhakea there is no species either eastern or western 

 with flat, triply nerved leaves, such as our Hakea possesses. The 

 three first series of section Gonogynoides, including all western 

 species, afford no type to which our plant can be referred. The 

 last three series of the same section, that is Uninerves, Enerves, and 

 Teretifolice, as their very name implies, exclude this three nerve 

 leaved Hakea, as also the last section of Manglesioides, including 

 all western, and either terete or nerveless leaved Hakeas. There thus 

 remains only the series Nervosae of Conogynoides sheltering species 

 with leaves lanceolate or linear, three or more nerved, where our 

 specimens may find a place. Pursuing the same process of com- 

 parison further within the precincts of this series, we come face to 

 face with H. dactyloides offering much resemblance, if not entire 

 identity with our plant. Minor points of difference are the rather 

 curved beak of the fruit instead of being straight as described, the 

 narrowness or total absence of the wing decurrent on the upper 



