■1-^4 AUSTRALIAN PLANTS. 



\inato in mesopodibus umbilicato opaco umbriuo zonis crebris picto 

 subintegro ; stipite elongato irregulari pileo obscuriore prninoso ; hy- 

 meuio concavo albo; poris punctiforinibus contextu pallido zonato. 

 Spruce, n. 171, 197. 



IIab. On dead trunks. Panure. March, 1853. 



Pileus 2-4 inches across, pulvinate, umbilicate when central, rather 

 thick, hai'd, rigid, opaque, dull pale umber, with numerous darker zones 

 nearly even. Stem 2-7 inches high, |-| of an inch thick, pruinose, ' 

 more tawny than the pileus. Hymenium white, concave. Pores punc- 

 tiform, ending abruptly. 



The lateral individuals (197) are larger, but there is no real differ- 

 ence. It is a very beautiful species; edge not grooved. The mesopod 

 specimen was included in n. 194. 



{To he continued,) 



Definitions of Rare or hitherto Undescribed Australian Plants, 

 chiejly collected within the boundaries of the Colon]/ of Victoria ; ly 

 Dr. Perdinand Mueller, Government Botanist for the Colony 



of Victoria. 



{Continued from p, 72.) 



XXV. Loranthace^. 



96. Loranthus (Sect, Bendropththoe) canus, P. Muell. ; squarrose, 

 grey-lepidote ; branchlets below terete; leaves alternate, petiolate, long- 

 lanceolate, more or less falcate, nearly blunt, generally three-nerved, 

 indistinctly veined ; cymes axillary, with only two branchlets, bearing 

 each three flowers ; flowers pentamerous, outward grey-lepidote, the 

 intermediate one sessile, with an oblong bracteole, the lateral ones on 

 a short and thick pedicel, with a roundish navicular bracteole; calyx 

 five-toothed, as well as the bracteoles ciliolate ; anthers linear, affixed 

 with the base; style filiform; berries urceolate-ovate, greyish-yellow, 



succulent. 



Buffalo 



Creek, and the Upper Ovens, parasitical on Acacia mollissima ; at 

 both of those localities rare. 



1 regret nut having been able to examine weU-developed flowers of 

 Uus plant. The leaves arc not unhke thos(^ nf L np^^rlnlu.^ (L 



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