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Circa '2 mm. alt. Spatia intorvalvaria 2x1 mm. Semina 4 mm. long. ; ala 

 sola 2x2-5 mm. 



Tins can be distinguished from C. Jiumilis^ Otto & Dietr. by tho less 

 markedly striate branches with six (not four) teeth at the nodes, the 

 narrower cones with less prominent dorsal tubercles to the bracteoles^ and 

 the narrow op(ming left between the bracteole.^ on escape of the smaller 



liglit brown (instead of black) seeds which are provided with a narrower 

 wing. 



III. Some Neav or Rare Australian Species of 



Older Collections. 



This part of the memoir is devoted almost exclusively to notice of plants 



communicated 



travellers at various times duri 



ng last century, and 



I. 



will, it is trusted J prove the forerunner to another, possibly others, of 

 similar nature. It will be convenient, and perhaps may not bo without 

 interest, to notice shortly the chief collectors whose names appear in tlio 

 following pages, with the more reason inasmuch as some of tJiese names are 

 omitted from tlio official ' History of the Collections contained in the 

 Natural History De[)artments of tho British Museum.' 



Armstrong, J. Was at Port Essington in 1810. There is a fair set of his 

 plants at the Museum, though not so good as that at'Kew ; but tl)e Museum 

 set contains here and there a species not in tho Kcw herbarium. 



Brown, Robert, The full set of this, perhaps the most important of all 

 Australian collections, is of course at the British Museum, A large number 

 of Brown's plants are also at Kew presented under the terms of the 

 J. J. Bennett bequest in 1872. 



Bynoe, Benjamin* Surgeon on the ^ Beagle' 1837-li^ ; better kno^vn as 

 having acted in a sluiilar capacity on the same ship during the subsequent 

 voyage immortalized by Charles Darwin. In tlie preface to ^ Flora Austra- 

 liensis,' Bentham regrets the want of funds w^hich prevented the plants 

 collected by the '^officers of the ^Beagle' under Captain Wickham and 

 Captain Stokes^' being nuide available for examinatioti at the Museum. 

 There w^as^ however, no reason for this regretj j-inco examinafion of the 

 consignniont and comparison of its contents with the Bynoe plants at T\(^\v 

 show the two collections to be essentially the same, though witli specimens 

 missintr here and there from one or the other. There seems little reason to 

 doubt, therefore, that the 

 ccntrated in the person of the surgeon, and this view has hccn adopted on 

 the Museum labels. 



Cunkingham, Allan. Bearing In mind that Cunningham owed his 

 position largely to the offices of Banks, it is only natund to find his devoted 

 services as collector well in evidence at the Museum. The reader may be 



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officers 



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alluded to above were really con- 



