740 NOTES FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS, NO. 12, 



* Cynodon ciliaris Benth. 



Yandama, North-western New South Wales (A. W. Mullen; 

 April, 1U06). 



Previously only recorded from the Central Australian district 

 of South Australia. The spikes, which are normally in pairs, 

 are occasionally in threes in the New South Wales specimens. 



Cynodon convergens F. v.M. 



Bentham gives, in the " Flora Australiensis," two localities for 

 this grass, i.e., Upper Victoria River (F.v.M.) and Cabramatta 

 (Woolls), but Mueller omits it from New South Wales in his 

 "Census." It is difficult to say whether this omission is a 

 clerical error, or whether he regarded the grass as introduced in 

 the Cabramatta locality (now called Rossmore), about 20 miles 

 south of Sydney. Dr. Woolls himself did not regard it as an 

 introduced plant, as is proved by his inclusion of it in his list of 

 " Plants Indigenous to the Neighbourhood of Sydney"; therefore, 

 we think it should be added to the " Census of the Flora of New 

 South Wales." Such a jump in the habitat of a plant from 

 Cabramatta to the Upper Victoria River is peculiar, but not with- 

 out precedent, and the grass is in appearance so much like the 

 common Cynodon Dactylon, that it may have been overlooked 

 till now in the intervening country, especially as the Australian 

 flora is still so very imperfectly explored in detail. 



* Chloris divaricata R.Br. 



Yandama, North-western New South Wales (A. W. Mullen; 

 April, 1906). 



Recorded in Mueller's "Census" from North Australia and 

 Queensland. Mr. Max Koch, who did good work in the botanical 

 exploration of South Australia, discovered it in 1900 at Mt. 

 Lyndhurst in that State, and now we are able to record it from 

 New South Wales. 



* New for New South Wales. 



