NORTH AUSTRALIAN EXPLORING EXPEDITION. 11 



obtuse, above at length perfectly smooth, beneath covered with a vel- 

 vety grey-brown toment ; cyme few-flowered, about as long as the op- 

 posite leaf ; basilar bracteole linear, the upper one tripartite and half 

 as long as the calyx, with unilateral linear scarcely unequal segments ; 

 laciniae of the calyx outside starry grey-hairy, inside smooth, ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute] germen blunt, white velutinous, 



Hab. In the Mallee Scrub on the Murray River and St, Vincent*s 

 Grulf, where it was at first observed by Dr. II. Behr, 



28. Corethrostylis ScJuilzenii, F. Muell. ; leaves thin, cordate, some- 

 what acute, above asperulous, beneath grey-green and thinly toraen- 

 tose; cyme about as long as the opposite leaf; bracteoles linear- filiform, 

 undivided, solitary, the upper one a little remote from the calyx, which 

 is whitish, almost membraneous, marcescent and not spotted; petals 

 opposite to the filament, smooth or outw^ard hairy; germen white from 

 glandless velvet hair ; style, with exception of the summit, densely 

 retro-pilose. 



Hab. In the Salt Flatt at Guichen Bay and on Mount Benson, 



Intermediate between C, membranacea and 0. cordifolia from the 

 western coast of Australia, to which part of the country the genus was 

 formerly considered to be restricted. 



{To be continued.) 



Dr. Feedinand Mueller and the North Australian Exploring 



EXPEPITION. 



In our last, or December Number of this Journal, we briefly men- 

 tioned the appointment of Mr. Mueller as Botanist to the above- 

 mentioned Expedition. This judicious measure originated, we believe, 

 with his Excellency the Governor-General of Australia, Sir William 

 Denison, and a more fortunate choice could not have been made. 



The exact destination or particular route of the party is probably 

 known to few, save the Commander of the Expedition; but at a meeting 

 of the Geographical Society, held on the 10th December, a letter was 

 read from Mr. Kent, dated Sydney, August 12th, 1855, giving in- 

 formation respecting the North Australian Expedition, which had left 

 Moreton Bay in August last, in a barque and a schooner. It was 



