Editorial

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ASBS Inc Business

• Annual General Meeting .................... 2

• Council Elections .................... 2

• Hansjorg Eichler Research Fund Applications .................... 3

ABRS Report

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ABLO Report

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Letters to the Editor

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Articles

• The rediscovery of Trioncinia retroflexa (Asteraceae) in central Queensland .................... 9

• Notes on Hemistrpia lyrata (Asteraceae) and its Australian occurrence .................... 10

• Serendipity .................... 12

• Hunting the elusive Dillwynia .................... 13

• ASBS first summer series picnic .................... 14

Reviews

• 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants .................... 15

• John Lindley 1799-1865, Gardener - Botanist and Pioneer Orchidologist .................... 15

• Adventrop Doc - Les adventices d'Afrique soudano-saheliene .................... 18

• EUCLID - Eucalypts of south-eastern Australia .................... 19

Conferences/Workshops

• International Symposium Ethnobotany .................... 21

• Dampier 300 .................... 23

• 2000: New Zealand .................... 23

• Where Worlds Collide: Faunal and floral migrations and evolution in SE Asia-Australasia .................... 24

Herbarium News

• Darwin Herbarium .................... 27

News from FASTS

• FASTS "Ten Top" for 1999 .................... 27

• FASTS circular for December .................... 29

• Scholarships in Germany .................... 31