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pustular lenticels; white latex abundant in the younger 
parts, scanty in the lower part of the stem; leaves dark 
green above, pale green beneath ; buds greenish to dull 
purplish; fruit green — buds and fruits); Mt. Roberts, 
eastern slopes, in rather light rain-forest, ca. 2,200 feet, 
December 20th, 1943, Blake 15382 (tall, slender liana- 
bark greenish with pale-coloured pustular lenticels; latex 
white, abundant in younger parts, scanty in lower part 
of stem ; leaves dark green above, pale green beneath ; 
flowers creamy white, faintly scented — flowers) and fruit- 
ing specimens from same plant, June 3rd, 1944 Blake 
15405. 
So far only a few plants have been seen, within and 
without the border of the National Park, chiefly along the 
upper part of the Hidden Valley track. Known previously 
from eastern New South Wales to as far south as Tllawarra, 
where it was originally discovered by Allan Cunningham. 
Marsdenia longiloba Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 340 (1869). 
North side of Shipstern Range, in chiefly Tristania 
conferta forest, on steep slope, ca. 2,000 feet, December 
11th, 1943, Blake 15375 (slender wiry twiner of several 
yards with a little watery juice; leaves dull green above, 
paler beneath ; flowers greenish white with sickly scent ; 
pollen-carriers brown). 
Only one plant seen. Elsewhere known from north- 
eastern New South Wales. 
Family SCROPHULARIACEAE. 
Euphrasia bella , sp. nov. (Plate V.). 
Suffrutex humilis ramulosus, pilis uncinulatis hyanilinis 
scabriusculus. Caules vel erecti vel adscendentes vel repentes. 
Folia nonnunquam alterna, herbaceo-membranacea, saepius 
rugulosa, obtusa, basi cuneata, dentibus 2-6 rotundatis vel 
inaeque triangularibus grosse dentato-serrata, saepe glabres- 
centia, inferiora breviter pedicellata ambitu obovata vel oblonga, 
8-13 mm. longa et 4-7 mm. lata, superiora gradatim admodum 
angustiora subsessilia. Bracteae foliis superioribus subsimiles 
nisi paullo minores acutioresque, saepe alternae. Pedicelli fili- 
formes, 3-6 mm. longi. Flores plures, laxe dispositi, circa 
1.5-2 cm. longi. Calyx glabra vel fere glabra, florem dimidium 
subsuperans, usque ad medium 4-loba; lobi inaequales, sub- 
oblongi, obtusi. Corolla extus parce puberula intus glabra; 
tubus calycem manifeste superans, basi subcvlindricus sursum 
dilatatus leviter curvatus; labium superum leviter recurvum, 
tuJ)o paullo brevius; labium inferum patulum, labio supero 
semper et tubo plerumque longius; lobi obovati obtusi praecipue 
labii superi leviter emarginati, antero-medianus quam ceteris 
longior admodum spatulatus. Filamenta parte adnata pilosa 
