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nearly l jt i ncn ' ou g> showing no pale membranous dilatation and only 

 slightly oveilapping in bud. Petals only to a small extent overreaching 

 the calyx. Fruit */2 to 3 /i incbes long; its pericarp rather thick, ot" 

 subacrid and somewhat aroinatic taste. Seed turgidly ovate, about Vs-inch 

 long ; its cotyledons one above the otber. The unexpanded flowers 

 resemble those of some Eucalypts, and impart to this species a peculiar 

 appearance. 



Kear E. Tierneyana; but lhat species recedes in thinner and ofteu 

 more elongated leaves, with inore distant and therefore fewer primary 

 venules, in ampler florescence, in almost semiorbieular calyx-lobes 

 conspicuously membranous towards the margin, in shorter and thus more 

 globular fruits. As Eugenia Sayeri a plant has now been distinguished 

 from the same region. This additioual species has leaves much like 

 those of E. Julmsoni, but flowers similar to those of E. Tierneyana. The 

 fruits of this congener remain unknown. 



Specimens of several otber new Australian Eugenias aceumulated 

 through many years in our collections; but the material is still insufticient 

 for offeriug satisfactory diagnoses of tbem. 



Eugenia Armstrong/', has been found recently by Mr. Nicolas Holtze 

 near i'ort Darwin. From it differs E angophoroides in angular brancblets, 

 broader leaves above darker coloured and with a rather less prominent 

 venulation, somewhat smaller flowers devoid of conspicuous pedicels, less 

 lobed calyces, evidently larger fruits outside blackish. 



E. myrsinocarpa is a species collected by Fitzalan at Trinity-Bay. 

 with shorter, less closely venulated, and more acuminate leaves, very 

 thiu ultimate peduncles, less broad, indeed quite globular, fruits. Leaves 

 much like those of E. apodophylla. 



E. carissoides is now also known from Cape York and Endeavour- 

 River. 



E. hemilampra occurs on Mossman's-Eiver (Sayer), Endeavour-River 

 (P ersieh), Mt. Bartle Frere (Johnson). 



E. cormißora grows on Endeavour-, Daintree-, and Johnstone-Rivers, 

 The fruit is there much eaten by the autochthones. 



E, Tierneyana extends to Trinity-Baj' (Sayer) and Daintree-River- 

 (F i t z a 1 a n). 



Embelia Fluechigeri. 



Leaves on corrugated short petioles, of firm texture, almost elliptic. 

 at the base Munt, devoid of denticulation, closely reticular-venulated, 

 glabrescent ; panicles densely tomentellous ; pedicels very short or some 

 almost abseilt ; segments of the calyx five, rather long, narrow-elliptic ; 

 petals of about düble calyx-length, tender-membranous ; stamens five, 

 about as long as the petals, their filaments scantily beset with hairlets, 

 the antbers broadly cordate ; ovulary and lower portion of the style 

 short-lanuginous. 



Russell-River; Stephen Johnson. 



Shrub of somewhat laurinaceous aspect, thougb of rambling babit. 

 Leaves to 4 incbes long, to l J /a inch broad, shining on both sides, hardly 

 paler beneath, their pellucid ])ores not readily visible. Branches of the 

 jianicle numerous, but mostly short. Vestiture of the inflorescence 

 brownish. Flowers in racemous Clusters. Bracts of rather conspicuous 

 size. Petals about */ 4 inth long, very perceptibl}' dotted, much less 

 pubescent than the calyx. Filaments linear-setaceous. Fruit yet to be 

 obtained, Allied to E. NagusMa, but the leaves are neither distinctly 

 acuminate, nor narrowed into the petiole ; further, the flowers are larger 

 and neither tetramerous nor glabrons. From E Cattam it differs already 

 in larger, less pointed leaves, ampler inflorescence and longer calyx. The 

 species is very different from our only otber indigenous congener, namely 

 E. Australiana. Two older names exist for the genus Embelia, but 

 neither became supported or coufirmed by any quoted or implied species- 

 nanies. Several of the Australian Myrsines are referable to Labisia, on 

 account of the valvulär preflorescence of their corolla. 



