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tripai'titi lobis sursum dilatatis revolutis, baccis subglobosisj semini- 



bus compressis nigrescentibus basi obtusis margme leviter incrassatis. 



Hab. In nemoribus secus flumen Brisbane, necnon in insulis sinus 

 Moreton Bay. 



Ilerba Skyos angidati facie nisi gracilior. 



Zehneria erythrocarpa ; foliis palmato-quinquelobis vel trilobis, laciniis 



oblique lanceolatis acurainatis mucronulatis margine denticulatis, 



medio laciuiarum basi angustata, floribus monoids axillaribus fasci- 



culatis breviter pedunculatis, masculis triandris, foemineis stamina 



sterilia producentibus, stigmatis tripartiti lobis subcordatis reflexis, 



baccis magnis subovatis rubris, seminibus turgidis margine crasso 

 cinctis. 



Hab. Antecedenti consociata. 



Herha prseeunte rot)ustior. Tolia pleraque 2-3 unc. longa. Tlore^ 



masculi psene semiunciales, fcemineis paulo majores. Trudus fere 



pollicares, interdum vitellini, ssepius Isetissime mbri, longitudinaliter 



albo-vittati. 

 Antbesis utriusque speeiei sub hoc coelo perpetua. 



There is amongst the plants forwarded to the Government a new- 

 genus allied to Euphorbia^ which is furnished at the limb of the invo- 

 lucre, instead of scaly bracteoles, with tender white petals, or, if you 

 like, bracteoles. I selected the name Petalandra for the genus- 



"September 19, 1855. 



Tomorrow I shall leave, in all probability, the ' Monarch,' and I close 

 therefore this letter. j\Ir. Gregory will perhaps, by another way than 

 through the hand of the Consul-General, forward the specimens ; he 

 has not yet decided upon this point. On the entrance of the Victoria 

 Eiver are a few plants collected ; I enumerate those with which I am 

 more or less acquainted, Sporoholits hidicns, Jasminum divaricatumy 

 Sesbania Australis, MgiaUtis annulata, RJdzophora Mangle, Pandanus 

 spiralis^ Scmmla Koenigiiy Cycas mediae Vitex ovata, Vitex triphylla {V, 

 glabrat(B prox.), Melaleuca sp., Eucah sp., Grevillea sp., Hakea sp., Per- 

 soonia sp., Acacia sp., Monencyanthes gnapJialioides, Flcus sp., Salicornia 

 Indica, Cressa Cretica, Careya^ Pavetta sp., Asparagus fasciculatus, 

 ^gicera^fragram, Eemistemma dealhatum, Flagellaria Indica, a species 

 of Dimetopia, in which only one mericarp is developed (7). Jiemicarpa), 

 Erlachie sp.; but this is the autumn, and consequently very few plants 

 are to be observed in flower. *'»»»• Mueller. 



