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MR. SPENCER MOORE : A CONTRIBUTIQ]^ 



specimen is incomplete, being without flowers, and this rendered certain 

 naming irnpossihle. As there are both c? and ? flowers on the Museum 

 specimens, tliere is now no doubt that this Malayan species extends to 

 Australia. It should be expected from North Australia too. It may be 

 added that a new section [Fmhlicastrinn) o£ the genus now makes its 

 appearance in the Australian flora. 



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mcrston ; Jiev. 1\ S. Lea. 



(ex descript.j. N. Ansfraliaj Tal- 



Female flowers not scon, but male specimens agree well with th(^ recently 

 published description in Jonrn. and Troc. li. Soc. W, Australia, iii. p. 02. 

 Mr. Lea's note runs— '^ Shrub spriugino' in burnt ground, flowers yellow/^ 



New to the Northern territory, though the original locality, King River, 

 is not far Ti'om its western border. 



TiilTAXiS AUSTRALIENSIS, sp. nov. Plania fere omnino glabra; ramiflis 

 foliosis eorticc brunneo-grI:seo]o lenticellifero obduciis ; foULs petiolaiis Into 

 elh'pticis aj)ico basiquo obtusis margine repandis vel integris opacis sul)ius 



pallidioribus costis hiteralibus utrinque 8-10 pag. utraque facile aspectabili- 

 bus ; flovihv,^ niasculis soluniniodo obviis in cynias breves pednnculatas laxe 

 trichotomas digestis j pedicelUs fih'formibus calj-^cm certe excedentibus ; 

 calycla minntissinie Tnlvo-sericei lobis oblongo-ovatis obtusissiniis quani 

 petala ovata obtusissima qnasiunguiculafa brevioribus ; (Jiscl glandulis 5 

 subglobosis; stanunibus 5 ad medium columnar insertis additis 2-4 eol 

 coronantibtis* 



eoinuHiani 



Queensland, Cape York ; DaemeL 



Folia (lamina sola) spcpius 10-15 cm, long., 5-C'5 cm. lat., cxstant vero 

 minora, glandulis minutis (ranslucentibus creberrime insiructa ; reticulum 

 sat apertum, pag. utravis visibile ; petioli G-15 mm. long., basi siepe 

 aliquantulum dilatati uecnon transversim rugulosi. Stipulse fugacere, lan- 

 ceohitoe, I'T) mm. long. Cymse 3-4 x 3-0 cm. Pedunculus G-12 mm. long, 

 Bractcjc pusilhno, lanceolatse^ circa 1 mm. long, Pedicelli plerum([ue 5-7 



8 mm. diam. Calycis tubus 1 mm., lobi 



mm< long. Flo 

 2 



mm. long. 



1 



res pansi circa 



crassiuscuhij fere 3 mm. long,, 



Petala 5 mm. long. Columna staminea sub verticillo 



superne tenuis et 2 mm. long.; filamenta 



libera 1*5 mm, long. ; antherre ovidese, obtusae, fere 1 mm, long. 



An addition to a small genus of three species, native respectively to India, 

 Cochin China, and the Philippines, and hitherto not reported from Australia. 



ew Guinea may therefore be expected. One mny 



Its 



occurrence in 



N 



mention that the 3-fid calyx given for this genus in ' Genera 



Plantarum 



(iii. pt. 1. p. 202) is a mistake^ most likely of the printer : this error Pax 

 copies in 'Nat. Pflanzenfam.' iii, .5. p. 74, but he is more careful and gives tlie 



