ih) E. CHEEL. 
as asynonym of D. laxiflora (which as mentioned above 
was mistaken as a misprint), but curiously enough Nova 
Hollandia occidentalis is given as the habitat. In Index 
Kewensis D. intermedia A. Cunn. is given aS a synonym 
of D. taxifolia A. Cann. 
Cunningham’s D. intermedia is a New South Wales plant 
and I have endeavoured to define the Blue Mountain plants 
from the Port Jackson forms in the folowing way:— 
D. taxifolia A. Cunn. typica. 
Usually more or less upright or spreading shrubs. Leaves 
falcate with mucronate tips and distinctly but minutely petiolate. 
Flowers 5 mm. long, white, pink, or occasionally tinged green, 
usually 4 together in the axils of the upper leaves, supported by 
two bracts which are of a reddish colour. Bracts 6 to 7 mm. 
long, equal in length or slightly exceeding the flowers, with scari- 
ous margins, having a prominent nerve through the centre, ending 
in a distinct soft mucronate-like point. Calyx tube 5.to 6 mm. 
Jong, with 5 distinct ribs, rugulose between the ribs in the lower 
part, and comparatively smooth upwards, with petal-like lobes. 
Petals scarcely distinguishable from the calyx-tube. Anthers 10, 
alternating with minute subulate staminodia. 
Distribution as follows:—Clyde W. Baeuerlen; Jervis Bay, 
J.H. Maiden; Bowen Island, Dr. F. A. Rodway; Katoomba, 
W. Forsyth; Blackheath, R. H. Cambage (No. 1208); Mount 
Wilson, J. Gregson. 
Darwinia taxifolia A. Cunn. var. biflora nov. var. 
D. taxifolice similis sed floribus solum duobus. 
The plants which I propose to record under the above 
varietal name are very similar to the typical D. taxifolia 
from the Blue Mountains, but the flowers are slightly 
larger, the bracts obtuse, and not longer than the flowers, 
and only two together on the tips of the branches instead 
of four as in the typical form. Specimens in the National 
