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PoMADERRis FERRLGiNEA, Sieb. ( R,hainiiaceae.) 



Western slope of Brisbane Ranges, South Victoria, P. R. H. 

 St. John, September, 1911. About 31 feet high. 



In the Fragnienta, Vol. III., page 69, Mueller made this 

 species as well as P. lanigera, P. jy^'dlyroides and five other 

 specific names synonyms to P. elliptica. At the same time, 

 however, he raised a new species, P. grandis, differing less 

 from P. elliptica than the other species suppressed in its 

 favour. In the last Census all the species are given as valid 

 •excepting P. ferruginea, thus agreeing with Bentham except 

 on this one point. In Moore's '' Flora of New South "Wales " 

 P. femiginea is given as a variety of P. elliptica. 



It seems best, however, to retain all these species, since the 

 development of hairs upon which the distinctions between the" 

 species are largely based, though not usually reliable, seem in 

 this case to be remarkably constant and to be associated with 

 other characters. The villous calyx distinguishes P. ferruginm 

 and P. lanigera from P. elliptica, whose leaves are white 

 beneath, instead of more or less rusty. P. ferruginea has the 

 upper surface of the leaf smooth, while in P. lanigera it is 

 rough with minute white hairs. 



Prasophyllum fusco-viride. Reader. (Orchidaceae.) 



Dr. R. S. Rogers informs me that he has during the past 

 two years examined the orchid generally known in South Aus- 

 tralia as P. Tepperi, Rogers, and finds it to agree with the 

 former species. (See also Proc. Roy. Soc. of Victoria, Vol. 22, 

 1909, page 19.) Only one Herbarium specimen of the true 

 P. Tepperi, F. v. M., exists, and the plant may have become 

 extinct from the single locality (Yorke's Peninsula, South Aus- 

 tralia), whence it was recorded. 



PuLTENAEA Weindorfehi, Reader. "' Swamp Bushpea." (Legu- 

 minosae.) 



Dandenong Ranges, Victoria, C. French, Jnr., 4/10/1911. 

 Leaves slightly larger than in the original type specimen. 



