174 J. H. MAIDEN. 



Pungentes (Spicatae). 



A. oxycedrus Sieb. 



Mr. A. J. Campbell has sent this plant from the Gram- 

 pians, Western Victoria, with almost straight phyllodes up 

 to 6 cm. long. Mueller (PI. Vict.) describes those of the 

 species as f - If inch (say 2 to 3*5 cm.) long. A plant from 

 Gosford N.S.W., shows them 4 cm. long. 



Mr. Campbell's plant appears at first sight so different 

 from the Sydney or Blue Mountains form (the type), that 

 I thought we had at least a variety, but, in addition to the 

 increased length of the phyllodes, with the possible excep- 

 tion of more deciduous and less rigid stipules, all the 

 characters appear to agree with the normal form. Mr. 

 Campbell tells me that he saw the species 15 feet high and 

 "base of trunk about a foot through," which is a much 

 greater diameter than I have seen. 



Mr. Cambage and I found it a straggling spreading shrub 

 of 4-5 feet near Linden, and a bushy shrub 10 feet and 

 very abundant at the old Numantia, close to Linden. The 

 following description of pod and seed from Faulconbridge, 

 a third Blue Mountain locality, was drawn up from perfectly 

 fresh specimens. 



Pod almost terete, seeds longitudinally arranged. Valves 

 brown, rims of valves thickened and very marked. Seed 

 intensely shiny black. Funicle filiform, suspending the 

 seed just out of the pod. Arillus white, not clavate, almost 

 cylindrical, on the top of the seed. 



Calamiformes (Plurinerves). 

 A. Helmsiana n. sp. 



Frutex puniilus, breve tomento tecto, gummi exudans. Phyl- 

 lodiis numerosis, lineari-teretibus 2 nervis immersis, paullo falcatis, 

 apice recurvatis, 1 cm. longis. Pedunculis ca. 8 mm. longis, 

 capitulis parvis globosis ca. 20-floris. Calyce valde lobato, mar- 



