BY R. T. BAKER. 717 



URTICACE.E. 



*Boehmeria platyphylla Don. — This plant, recorded by F. 

 M. Bailey from Goambo Creek, Tambourine Mountain, Queens- 

 land, has been found to occur at Tumbulgum by W. Bauerlen. 



CASUARINE.E. 



Casuarina Luehmanni R. T. Baker. — Putty (A. C. Barwick). 

 This locality is worthy of mention, as it is the connecting link 

 between the Scone and interior records. 



CONIFERS. 



Callitris verrucosa U. Br. — Collected at Boorabbin, Western 

 Australia, by Dr. A. Morrison. This species, which is found near 

 Lake Cudgellico, N. S.W., has thus a geographical range extend- 

 ing right across the Continent into Western Australia. 



C. Muelleri Benth. — This species has been collected at Mt. 

 Baker, near Curricudgry Ranges, by J. E. Carne, F.G.S., Assist. 

 Gov. Geologist. 



C. Morrisoni, sp.nov.(Plate lxvii.). 



A tree 20 to 30 feet high occurring on rocky places (Oldfield). 

 Branchlets glaucous, erect, terete, internodes exceptionally short, 

 in fact shorter than those of any other species. Leaf scales blunt, 

 adpressed,decurrent portion being quite short and flattened. Male 

 amenta terminal, mostly single, short, with few whorls of stamens. 

 Female cones unknown. Fruit cones globular, axillary, solitary 

 or in clusters, about 8 lines in diameter when opened, smooth or 

 wrinkled when aged, ash-grey in colour, in early fruit tapering 

 towards the pedicel or branchlets as in G. Drummondii Benth. ife 

 Hooker, but rather intruded at the base in the mature stage. 

 Valves 6, thick, at first valvate, then channelled, the larger one 

 with parallel edges, the smaller ones triangular. 



Seeds usually two-winged, the central column three-sided; about 

 2 lines long. 



* New for New South Wales. 



