ASBS Newsletter

Number 69, December, 1991

Contents

Editorial .................... 1

Articles
Buddleja - Where is it in Australia?, by B.J. Conn and E.A. Brown .................... 2
Grass manuscript by C.C. Mez for Engler's Pflanzenreich, by B. Simon .................... 3
Camels: Their food preferences in central Australia, by L. Pedley .................... 4

Australian Systematic Botany Society Business
Fourteenth general meeting .................... 5
Council elections .................... 5
An Introduction to PATN workshop .................... 5
Biogeography and Phylogenetics of Pacific Flora symposium .................... 5
Southern Temperate Ecosystems: Origin and Diversification conference .................... 6
Systematic and Ecological Relationships of South Pacific Floras conference
   Opening address .................... 6
   Abstracts .................... 7

Reports
Australian Biological Resources Study .................... 19
Australian Biological Resources Study flora grants preferred objectives for 1993 .................... 19
Australian Biological Resources Study flora grants 1992 .................... 20
Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies annual meeting .................... 22
Australian Botanical Liaison Officer, Kew .................... 23
ASBS Melbourne Chapter .................... 24
International Organization for Plant Information .................... 24
The International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases for Plant Sciences .................... 25

Notices
Request - naturalized strandplants .................... 28
Australian Systematic Botany .................... 28
Plant Taxonomists online .................... 29
Directory of Pacific botanists .................... 29
Fenner conference on the National Biodiversity Strategy .................... 29
Conferences .................... 30

Index to A.S.B.S. Newsletter Numbers 66 - 69, 1991 .................... 31

A.S.B.S. Chapter Conveners, and Herbaria Phone Numbers .................... 36