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keeps the house is, notwithstanding his avocation, a gentleman in feeling 
as well as birth and education; I am therefore quite at home. Mel- 
bourne will be my head-quarters for letters for the next six months. 
After returning from Western Port about the end of November, I mean 
to cross over to Van Diemen’s Land and put myself under Gunn’s di- 
rection; and when I finish with Van Diemen’s Land, I return to Mel- 
bourne to take the steamer for Sydney. This will be about May, 1855. 
I have just written home for additional leave* of absence till December, 
1856, to enable me to visit New Zealand, the Sandwich Islands, and 
California, returning home by Panama and New York in the winter.— 
W.H.H. 
Characters of some New Genera of Plants recently discovered by Mr. 
James Drummond in Western Australia. By W. H. Harvey, M.D., 
M.R.LA., Keeper of the Herbarium of the Dublin University, ete. 
DILLENIACEA. 
1. Herria, J. Drum.— Calyz pentaphyllus, foliolis ovatis acutis duobus 
interioribus latioribus margine membranaceis. Petala 5, orbicularia, 
brevissime unguiculata, calyce longiora. Stamina hypogyna, basi 
unita, biseriata, duo izferiora latiora, 10 exteriora quorum 7 anthe- 
rifera, 3 ananthera, subuliformia ; filamenta brevissima, plana; an- 
there apice cono coh:rentes, terminales, biloculares, oblongze. Ova- 
ria 2, libera, unilocularia, ovulis geminis e basi erectis. Styli ter- 
minales, filiformes. Capsule . . . Semina arillata, arillo membra- 
naceo. — Fruticulus junciformis, ramosissimus, aphyllus, foliis enim 
sguameformibus minutissimis; floribus pedunculatis speciosis luteis ; 
pedunculo infra medium bracteolato. 
Huttia conspicua, J. Drum. x 
Has. Sand plains between the Hutt and the Murchison.—(Named — 
by Mr. Drummond in honour of John Hutt, Esq., late Governor i 
Western Australia.) 
2. Hemisteraus, J. Drum. — Calyx pentaphyllus, foliolis Me 
acutis, 3 exterioribus herbaceis, 2 interioribus chartaceo-membrana- - 
ceis. Petala 5, hypogyua, calyce longiora. Stamina hypogyna, 
monadelpha, biseriata, serie exteriore ananthera, in coronam multi- 
* This, we believe, has been granted.—Ep. oe 
