114 DR. Е: MUELLER ON AUSTRALIAN ACACIÆ. 
Fruit membranaceous, three-celled. Seeds two in each cell, 
large, compressed, testa brown. 
The habit and general appearance of this plant are so entirely 
those of the species of Botryanthus or Muscari, Kunth, that some 
doubt may well be entertained as to whether this may not be merely 
a variety of one of the species of one or other of those genera. 
Tf so, the validity of the genus Bellevalia, as distinct from the: 
above-mentioned, will be much impaired. In the meantime, as 
the present plant agrees entirely with the genus Bellevalia in the 
characters derived from the perianth and reproductive organs, no 
other course seems open than to consider it a new species of that 
genus. 
Contributiones ad Acasa Australie Cognitionem. By Dr. 
FERDINAND Мокін, Government Botanist, and Director 
of the Melbourne Botanic Garden, Victoria. Communicated 
by Grorer Bentuam, Esq., V.P.L.S., with notes on the new 
species. 
[Read May 6th, 1858.] 
[Юв. Muzzzzz's contributions are not only valuable for the num- ' 
ber of new and well-marked species which he has added to this 
extensive and polymorphous genus, but still more so for the addi- 
tional characteristic notes which enable us more or less to com- 
plete our knowledge of many species previously published from 
specimens so incomplete that they could scarcely be recognized. 
And there is still very much that is doubtful, chiefly from the 
difficulty of procuring specimens in fruit, or, when procured, of 
matching them with certainty with the flowering specimens. In 
so far as the specimens have admitted of it, Ihave, at Dr. Mueller’s 
request, carefully compared his species with those nearly allied to 
them, and added any remarks which suggested themselves, at the 
end of his descriptions. In the few cases where I clearly identified 
them with others previously described, I have given the published 
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