NOTES ON THE GENERA DARWINIA HOMORANTHUS AND RYLSTONKEA. (f): 
linearibus falcatis mucronatis sparsis. Rocky declivities 
on the Blue Mountains.” In Don’s ‘ Dichlamydeous 
Plants,”’ ii, 812 (1832), it is again referred to and described 
as a decumbent shrub, leaves acinaciform, style shorter 
than the flower. Calyx white.’’ 
Then we have D. laxiflora J. 8S. Schauer, Myrt. Xeroc., 
190 (1840). In the latter work it is described as follows:— 
**Foll. faleatis acinaciformib. laxe fasciculatis; style ex- 
serta parte flore breviore.’’! B. FI., iii, 12 (1866) includes 
D. laxiflora Schau. as a synonym, and states that Schauer 
was mistaken in supposing that A. Cunningham’s specific 
name of taxifolia wasa misprint; it was intended to allude 
to the peculiar bifarius arrangement of the leaves in 
luxuriant plants.’’ It will be seen from the above that the 
type specimens of tawifolia were collected on the Blue 
Mountains, but whether all the specimens of Don or Schauer 
belong to taxifolia of Cunningham, is very questionable, as 
in Don’s work, l.c., it is mentioned as ‘‘a decumbent shrub,”’ 
and in Schauer’s work, l.c., the leaves are said to be “‘laxe 
fasciculatis,’’ or loosely fascicled. 
Having examined a large amount of material both in the 
field as well as the abundant collections in the Herbarium, 
from a fairly wide range of country, Iam inclined to believe 
that the descriptions given above as well as that given by 
Bentham, are of a composite character, as the material in 
the herbarium may be divided into three if not four distinct 
varieties. Allan Cunningham evidently thought there 
were three species in New South Wales, as we find that he 
proposed the name D. intermedia (vide Schauer in Nov. 
Act. Nat, Cur. xtx, Suppl. ii, 190 (1840) and Walp., Repert. 
ii, 154 (1843). In the latter work, however, it is included 

* Schauer also gives a fuller description which seems to be of a com- 
posite nature so as to include both D. tawifolia and D. intermedia of 
Cunningham. 
