73S NOTES FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS, NO. 12, 



VERBENACEiE. 

 L.IPPIA NODIFLORA Rich. 



Kurnell, Botany Bay; abundant (J. L. Boorman). 



Most southern locality. This common tropical and subtropical 

 seacoast plant is also common on the northern coast of this State 

 (as far south as Tuggerah Lakes), but has not been recorded 

 previously so far south as Botany Bay. 



THYMELACE.E. 



•'Phaleria Neumannii F.v.M. 



Acacia Creek, Macpherson Range (W. Dunn; November, 1905). 



Previously recorded from Queensland only. It is apparently 

 a very rare tree in New South Wales. The Forest Guard of the 

 district, Mr. W. Dunn, writes that he knows of only about a 

 dozen trees in his district, at an altitude of over 2000 feet. The 

 tree from which our specimens were obtained is 20 feet high, 

 with a circumference of 14 inches, 2 feet from the ground. The 

 tree is very ornamental and the flowers very fragrant. 



URTICACE53. 



Ficus stenocarpa Warb. in Just's Bot. Jahresbericht (Repert. 

 nov. spec, regni veget. Sept. 1905, p.75). 



(Syn. F. aspera Benth., non Forst.). 



Toowoomba scrub, Queensland, Warburg No. 18478. 



This is our common "Rough-leaved Fig,''" described in Bentham's 

 ''Flora Australiensis" as Ficus aspera Forst.; and called by Mueller 

 in his Census F. scabra Forst. Prof. Warburg points out in his 

 paper that Forster's type-specimens of Ficus aspera are totally 

 different from the Australian plants determined as such by 

 Bentham. Forster's original diagnosis is so short that it is 

 impossible to identify the plant with certainty without the type, 

 but Prof. Warburg had the type before him, from Sprengel's 

 Herbarium in the Berlin Museum, and is consequently in a 

 position to judge. 



* New for New South Wales. 



