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A common tropical plant spread over the warmer regions of 

 the whole globe. In East Australia it was previously recorded 

 as far south as Brisbane. Our New South Wales locality brings 

 it some 50 miles further south. 



GRAMINE.E. 



Andropogon brevifolius Swartz (A. frag His R.Br.). New for 

 New South Wales. 



Narrabri West (J. L. Boorman; June, 1907). 



Recorded previously from Queensland and North Australia, 

 not further south than the Endeavour River. The Narrabri 

 specimens agree exactly with R, Brown's type-specimens from the 

 Endeavour River. R. Brown described it erroneously as a new 

 species, but it is now recognised to be identical with A. brevifolius, 

 common in India and distributed over the tropics of the globe. 



Poa compressa Linn. New for Australia. 



Blackheath, Blue Mountains (W. Forsyth; January, 1907). 



This is a grass from the temperate Northern Hemisphere, not 

 previously recorded from the Southern Hemisphere so far as we 

 know. In appearance it is much like a starved specimen of P. 

 saxicola R.Br. We have to thank Prof. E. Hackel (through Prof. 

 A. J. Ewart) for the determination. 



