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BOTANY OF VICTORIA. 357 
16), siliculee apice basique emarginatze lobis eum ala orbiculatis 
divaricatis. 
Gathered by Captain R. Strachey at the glacier sources of the Pindor 
River, in Kumaon, and by Mr. Winterbottom on the Pargil Pass, upper 
glen of the Kishnagunga River, in Little Tibet, without however having 
been met with by Dr. Thomson or any other traveller in any interme- 
diate locality. It very frequently happens that only one cell of the pod 
enlarges and ripens. 
Megacarpzea bifida, Benth.; caule elato, foliis Siain segmentis 
lanceolatis integerrimis, panicula inermi, sepalis petaloideis petala 
superantibus, staminibus submultiplicatis (7—11 9), siliculæ profunde 
bifidee lobis eum ala obovatis demum conniventibus. 
Gathered by Mr. Winterbottom in the valley of Kishnagunga, at an 
elevation of about 7400 feet, considerably lower down than the M. 
polyandra, from which it differs in the leaves, whose lobes are (at least 
in the single specimen preserved) perfectly entire, in the much more 
slender pedicels, and especially in the form of the pod as above de- 
scribed. Each lobe, with its wing, is about fifteen lines long by nine 
or ten lines broad. The wing itself i is from three to near four lines 
broad. a 
Plate IX. and X. Megacarpea polyandra. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The —— 
same with the sepals and petals removed, showing the stamens. 3. Sta- 
men. 4, Ovary and receptacle: the scars and marks on the recep- - 
tacle are however somewhat inaccurate. 5. Silieule. 6. Seed. 7. Em- - 
bryo. 3 
Botany of Victoria (Southern Australia). Zetracts of Letters from — 
Dr. FERDINAND MUELLER, Colonial Botanist, Victoria. 
Avon River, Gipps’ Land, Nov. 19, 1854. 
The interest which you formerly so kindly bestowed on my commu- 
nications induces me to despatch from this locality, at the commence- 
ment of a new botanical journey to the Australian Alps, a few lines to 
you, to lay before you some results of my first ascent of the mountains. 
this year. I am just returned from Mount Wellington (Gipps' Land); | 
and although at so early a season for the snowy regions Ihadmnotan . 
opportunity of collecting several apparently new and interesting plants _ 
even in the beginning of flower-development, yet I have seen, in addi- - 
