Flora, having examined intermediate forms, unhesitatingly 

 unites them, no doubt rightly. For nearly a century E. 

 Billardieri was the only known Australian species, and 

 the genus was supposed to be confined to Tasmania in the 

 Old World ; but comparatively recently, since the publi- 

 cation of Bentham's Flora Australiensis, Sir Ferdinand 

 Mueller has published a Continental Australian species, 



E. Moorei (Fragment. Phyt. Austral, vol. iv. p. 2), a native 

 of New South Wales. 



The plant figured was raised from seed sent in 1884 by 



F. Abbott, Esq., of the Botanical Gardens, Hobartown, 

 Tasmania. It flowered for the first time in June of the 

 present year. — J. J). H. 



Fig. 1, Calyptriform calyx; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, ovary; 5, transverse 

 section ot the same .—all enlarged. 



