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clusively Australian, Of these two last there are fortunately living 

 plants of Mihie*s ; and, besides other things, some of a fine Pitcher- 

 plant, which is not N. dlstillatoria. We found this last in one very 

 confined locality, a small patch of swampy ground by a stream, crossing 

 the road along which we were proceeding to Kaji, on a visit to the 

 principal chief, or rather king, for he exercises absolute authority not 

 only over the whole of the Isle of Pines, but also over a portion of New 

 Caledonia. But this is not botany ; so, by way of making amends, I 

 may mention that Wendagu (the king) told me, while showing some 

 large double canoes, that they were made in New Caledonia, out of a 

 large tree growing there, which he had heard the sandal-wood traders 

 call Kanrie. Now of course this was a Dammara, and no doubt a very- 

 noble one. I believe one from that island, got by Moore, has been 

 described. You allude in your last letter to specimens of a Dammara, 

 sent by the late Sir J. Everard Home to the British Museum, from 

 the Isle of Tines. Now the locality is incorrect : there is no Dammara 

 there. The species in question, if not the Aneitcum one — of which 

 more anon — is doubtless from the Pijis, where I know he got speci- 

 mens of a similar character. 



We sailed from the Isle of Pines on October 22. We were off Mat- 

 thew Island on November 4, but it was quite impracticable to land, 



culis rachibusque crassis, stylis elongatis glabris perianthio triple longioribus, stig- 

 mate conico-apiculato. 

 Grevillea. MacgiUivray, Herb. Toy. of H.M.S. Herald, w. 854. 



Hab. Near the summit of the Isle of Pines, main peak, October, 1853, John 

 MacgiUivray^ Esq.^ Mr, W, Alilne, 



A very beautiful and well-marlted species. Leaves larger, but in shape and texture 

 and colour not much unlike those of Olea Europa^a. Racemes copious, bearing very 

 numerous flowers. 



The other is a Steno carpus i — 

 2. Stenocarpus 31llneiy Hook. ; frutex glaber humilis, ramis gracilibus strictis, foliis 



linearibus pinnatifidis subbipinnatifidisve inferioribus simpllcibus, laciniis oppositis 



elongatis obtusis apice glanduloso-callosis ecostatis subreticulatim rugnlosis mar- 



ginibus parum reflexis, pedunculis axillaribus foliis brevioribus, nmbcllis subsexflo- 



ris, involucri fuliolis parvis subulatis, pedicellis apice iucrassatis calyculatis, stig- 



mate laterali orbiculato. 



Hab. Near the summit of the main peak of the Isle of Pines; abundant. Mr, W. 

 iElne {Herb, n. 118) ; MacgiUivray, Herb, Toy, of HJI.S. Herald, n, 855. 



General habit of some of the slender varieties of Grevillea linearis : but there the 

 leaves are all linear acute, strongly costate, and, as well as the racemose flowers, 

 more or less silky, T refer it to Stenocarpzis, in the absence of fruit, with little hesi- 

 tation, in consequence of the truly umbellate inflorescence, and the nature of the 

 stigma, and the general resemblance of the flowers to the original Stenocarpus Fors- 

 teri, Br. It is a gi*aceful, slender-twigged shrub. 



