182 NOTES ON PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO SYDNEY, 



A pamphlet containing several papers by Baron Mueller and 

 Prof. Tate on the Flora of North and South Australia ; also a 

 pamphlet containing "Notes on the Tertiary Strata beneath 

 Adelaide," "Diagnoses of new species of Miocene Fossils from 

 South Australia," and " Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Tropical 

 South Australia." By Prof. Ralph Tate, F.G.S. 



" Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften 

 herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein von Ham- 

 burg-Altona," YII Band., II Abtheilung, 4to, 1883. From the 

 « Verein." 



" Systematic Census of Australian Plants, with Chronologic 

 Literary, and Geographic Annotations." By Baron Fred, von 

 Mueller, K.C.M.G., M.D.,F.R.S., <fec, Parti, Yasculares. From 

 the author. 



papers read. 



Occasional Notes on Plants Indigenous in the Immediate 



Neighbourhood of Sydney. (No. 3.) 



By E. Haviland. 



During the short discussion that followed the reading of my last 

 paper, I quoted some remarks, by Professor Asa Gray, on the 

 fertilization of certain plants. As in those observations, he 

 mentions Lobelia, I have made that genus the subject of this short 

 paper. 



Bentham gives, in the Flora Australiensis, a list of eighteen 

 species of the genus indigenous in Australia ; but he mentions, 

 that it is widely spread over North America and South Africa; 

 with a few species in Europe ; while none had been found in 

 Northern Asia. The eighteen Australian species, he divides into 

 two sections. The first, consisting of ten species, having all the 



