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Wilkiea calyptrocalyx, which I have found at the Pox Ground 

 near Lane Cove. The genus Wilkiea was established by Dr. F. 

 Mueller, and it differs from Hedycarya in operculate female 

 flowers.' In the Doctor's work on the " Plants Indigenous to 

 the colony of Victoria," there is a good figure of II. pseudomorus, 

 as well as of Howittia trilocularis, a shrub of the Mallow Family, 

 with purple flowers, and a three celled capsule, resembling some 

 species of Solanum in appearance. Of the Qoodenia Family, I 

 have referred to several species on the mountains, which do not 

 occur near Parramatta, viz., Dampiera purpurea, D. ovalifolia, 

 Goodenia decurrens, and Velleia perfol^ata. I have also collected 

 G. larlata at Monkey Creek in the county of Camden, and I 

 dare say it extends to the Mountains. The Goodeniacece, of 

 which there are many species in the immediate neighbourhood of 

 Sydney, may generally be distinguished by the fleshy, undivided, 

 or two lobed stigma, which is surrounded by a membranous cup. 

 The species of Goodenia are usually yellow, and those of Dampiera, 

 purple. Of the Papilionacece at the Kurrajong, may be men- 

 tioned Bossicea rJwinbifolia, Daviesia mimosoides, and Podolobiuin 

 staurifolium, the second of which is of frequent occurrence on the 

 Mittagong range, and possesses, as I have already remarked, a 

 bitter property very agreeable to horses. Eulus Moorei, (a plant 

 of the Raspberry kind), grows at the Kurrajong, and also on the 

 creeks at Lane Cove. It is nearly allied to the New Zealand 

 species It. australis. The composite flower Heliclirysmi 

 elatum is common on many parts of the Blue Mountains. This 

 is the finest species of the genus in this part of the colony, and 

 is remarkable for its large flowers, the bracts of which are white 

 and like petals. 



Two of the rarest composites in the Parramatta district, are 

 LeptorJiyncJius linearis and L. squamatus, plants occurring also in 

 Victoria and Tasmania. The genus to which they belong, is, in 

 the opinion of Mr Bentham, scarcely different from Helichrysum, 

 excepting " in the involucral bracts with more thinly scarious 

 tips, neither spreading, nor petal-like, nor opaque, and in the con- 

 traction of the achene at the top." I am not aware whether L. 

 linearis has been collected on the Mountains, but L. squamatus 

 occurs there, and also near Bathurst. 



Tetratheca fhymifolia is a small under-shrub with purple flowers. 



