BY J. H. MAIDEN AND E. BETCHE. 739 



The following information is given by Prof. Warburg in a 

 footnote : — 



"As Forster's type-specimen of F. aspera from the Sprengel 

 Herbarium is in the Berlin Herbarium before me, it would be 

 well to supplement Forster's exceedingly short original diagnosis, 

 especially as Seemann's description is made from Fiji specimens. 

 F. aspera Forst., is a species growing in Tanna (New Hebrides), 

 with fruits the size of the ordinary fig. The specimens before me 

 are 15 mm. in diameter, the leaves are thin, 18 cm. long, glabrous, 

 scarcely rough above, not dentate; the receptacles are nearly 

 globular, densely, nearly felt-like, covered with greyish-yellow 

 hairs, they have stalks 4 mm. long and 2 mm. thick, the ostiolum 

 protrudes like a hunch, but the bracts of which do not stand like 

 a crown outside on the receptacle, but one sees only a few points 

 protruding from the narrow opening; the perigondeaves of the 

 gall-flowers are provided with a few cilia, mostly elongated and 

 more or less obtuse, the g flowers are monandrous, the perigon 

 leaves hardly hood-shaped, female flowers not seen. The species 

 belongs to the section Sycidium." 



Prof. Warburg's paper on the Australian species of Ficus 

 collected by himself, and in 1902 by Dr. Diels and Dr. Pritzel, 

 contains descriptions of eight new species, but the other seven 

 species — F. cylindrica Warb. , Cairnsii Warb., Pritzelii Warb., 

 D ielsii Warb., subinflata Warb., trichostyla Warb., sitistyla Warb. 

 — are all Queensland plants, not extending south to New South 

 Wales, as far as we know. 



GRAMINE^. 



* Sporobolus Benthami F. M. Bailey. 



Lake Cudgellico (J. L. Boorman; May, 1906). 



Previously recorded from Queensland, "about the Diamantina 

 and Georgina Rivers." In New South Wales it grows in dense 

 masses in " billabongs " or depressions subject to submersion in 

 rainy seasons. 



New for New South Wales. 



