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Alueller, Baron von, Note on the West Australian Fan-Palm. (1. c.) 



It is known since the discovery of the Hammersley-Ranges, fnlly thirty 



years ago, that a Livistoua-Palm occurs on the Millstream there, far 



isolated from any other species of that genus ; but former incompiete 



speciniens led to the surmise, that this palm might be identical with 



Livistona Mariae, a species restricted to the Palm-glen and several Valleys 



of the Macdonnell-Ranges in Central Australia. The last mentioned palm 



we know now through Mr. J. Edgar, of the Rockhampton Kotanic Gardeu, 



to be, while in a young State of cultivation, much more robust and upright 



in foliage than L. australis, besides the leaves at the early age of the 



plant being of a „rieh bronzy colour". This particular characteristic 



seems neither to apply to the West- Australian species, as ascertained by 



the Hon. Captain Phillips and Mr. H. Keep from Sergeant J. Beresford, 



stationed near the Hammersley-Ranges. Moreover, I have always found 



transmitted fruitlets considerably larger than those of the genuine L. 



Mariae, and turther some minor differences exist also in the flowers of 



the two species, as lecently ascertained. The West-Australian Fan-Pahu 



has therefore now been named L. Alfredi, in honour of H.E.H. the Duke 



of Edinburgh, at whose nuptial festival the Central Australian Palm 



became dedicated to the Princess Marie of Eussia. What applies to many 



other palms, holds good also for L. Alfredi — namely, that the leaves are 



more strongly spinous in the young than in the aged plant. Mr. Beresford 



records this palm now also from the Fortescue-River and its tributaries, 



from the sources of the Robe-River, and from Cave's Creek. 



'-Schultze, Alb., Die Phanerogamenflora um Altenburg. Theil II. (Mittheiluugen 



aus dem Osterlande. Herausgeg. von der naturforschenden Gesellschaft des 



Osterlandes zu Altenburg in S.-A. Neue Folge. Bd. V. 1892. — Zugleich 



Festschrift zur Feier des 75jährigen Bestehens der naturforschenden Gesellschaft 



des Osterlandes.) 



Wittmack, L. und Brettschneider, F., Robinia Neo-Mexicana Asa Gray. Mit 



Tafel. (Gartennora. 1892. Heft 24. p. 649—651.) 



Phaenologie: 



iHanbury, Thomas, Plauts in fiower at La Mortola in December. (The 

 Gardeners Chronicle. Ser. III. Vol. XII. 1892. No. 312. p. 742.) 



Palaeontologie : 



Engelhardt, Henn. « Ueber böhmische Kreideprianzen aus dem geologischen 

 Institute der deutschen Universität Prag. Mit Tafel. (Mittheilungen aus 

 dem Osterlande. Herausgeg. von der naturforschenden Gesellschaft des 

 Osterlandes zu Altenburg in S.-A. Neue Folge. Bd. V. 1892. — Zugleich 

 Festschrift zur Feier des 75jährigen Bestehens der natnrforschenden Gesellschaft 

 des Osterlandes.) 



S(Juinabol, S., Contribuzioni alla flora fossile dei terreni terziari della Liguria. 

 IV. Monocotiledoni. Con 12 tavole. Genova (tip. dell' istituto Sordomuti) 

 1892. 



Teratologie und Pflanzenkrankheiten: 



.Leclerc (hl Sahion, Sur une maladie du Platane. (Revue generale de Botauique. 



1892. No. 47.) 

 Lopriore, Gr., Die Schwärze des Getreides, eine im Sommer 1891 sehr verbreitete 



Getreidekrankheit. (Deutsche landwirthschaftliche Presse. 1892. No. 86. p. 888 



— h89.) 

 iZanfrognini, C, Anomalia del höre della Viola odorata Linn. (Atti della 



societa dei naturalisti di Modeua. Memorie. Serie III. Vol. IX. (Anno XXIV.; 



Fase. 2., e Vol. X. (Anno XXV.) Fase. 1.) Milano (tip. Viueenzi e nipoti) 



1892. 



Medicinisch-pharmaceutische Botanik. 



Abbott, A. C.j Prophylactic nieasures against asiatic cholera. (Med. News. 



Vol. II. 1892. No. 11." p. 287—290.) 

 .Arniug, A., Die gegenwärtige Verbreitung der Lepra in Europa und ihre 

 sociale Bedeutung. (Wiener klinische AVoehensehrift. 1892. No. 36. p. 515 



— 517.) 



