42 Alfred J. Ewart : 



on which von Mueller's variety was founded. The leaves on the 

 latter have mostly 5 nerves, and only a few smaller ones have 3. 



Myrsine (Rapanea) benthamiana, Mez. 1884, Port Darwin, 



M. Holtze. 



Named at Kew, and not previously recorded for Australia. 



Nephelium becklerii, Benth., var. ? (Sapindaceae). Logan R. 



Scortechini. 



The leaflets are smaller than the type, averaging 7 cm. by 2, 

 and the venation finer. New to Queensland. 



Persea baileyana, F. v. M. Ined. (Lauraceae), given in 

 Bailey's Flora of Queensland, p. 1310. 



The specimens in the National Herbarium are marked " pro- 

 bably Cinnamomum Tamala, Nees," in the handwriting of von 

 Mueller, and queried as Cinnnamomum virens, R. T. Baker, by 

 R. T. Baker. One specimen of C. virens is marked by R. T. 

 Baker as very close to C. propinquum, Bailey, which Bailey 

 considers to be closely allied to C ovalifolium, Wight, Ic. 125. 

 A type specimen of C. propinquum, Bailey, agrees closely with 

 the figure of 0. albiflorum, Nees (Laurus cassia, Roxb.) in Wight, 

 Icones 140, and this species is an accepted synonym for C. 

 Tamala, Nees. This disagreement of experts probably results 

 from the fact that all these "species" are so closely connected with 

 C. Tamala by intervening forms as to render it advisable to 

 extend the boundary of this species so as to include C. virens. 

 Baker, C. propinquum, Bailey, and C. oliveri, Bailey, of which 

 plant we have specimens from the same locality (Lismore) as C. 

 propinquum. In any case there appears to be no justification for 

 the name Persea Baileyana, F. v. M., as a MS. name on the 

 authority of Baron von Mueller. 



Petrophila ericifolia. (Proteaceae). Jibberding. M. Koch. 



Intermediate forms resembling var. glabriflora in their smaller 

 leaves and smaller cones, but with a hairy not glabrous perianth, 

 in this respect resembling var. scabriuscula. 



