968 Neue Litteratur. 



Mueller, Ferdinand, Baron von, Definitions of new plants, collected by the 

 Eider Exploring Expedition. (Communicated to the Roy. Soc. S. Australia, 

 August 2, 1892.) 



Goodenia Elderi, F. v. M. and Täte. 



Erect, somewhat lignescent ; stoms and branches bearing a thin whitish 

 tomentum, leaves mostly rather short, very slender, filiform, as well as 

 the iuflorescence almost glabrous ; peduncles terrainating branchlets, bearing 

 few or several racemose-panieulate flowers ; bracts leaflike ; pedicels mostly 

 longer than the flowers, bearing midway two linear bracteoles; lobes of 

 the calyx at first much longer than the tube, narrow-linear ; lobes of the 

 corolla all expanding into whitish upward-narrowed membranes ; anthers 

 narrow, blunt ; style beset with short spreading hairlets ; stigma-cover 

 except its base glabrous; fruit oval ellipsoid ; dissepiment high; seeds 

 several in each cell. 



On sandy places near Warangering. 



Height of plant to two feet, as far as seen ; its taste bitter. Root 

 perpendicularly descending, unbranched, scantily fibrilliferous. Raniification 

 upwards short. Longest leaves measuring one and a-half inches ; length 

 of most less than an inch ; many of the leaves by abbreviation of 

 branchlets somewhat fasciculate. Tube of the corolla unilaterally 

 protruding to a slight extent; somewhat best with hairlets along the 

 sutures. Membranous lobe-expansions of inconsiderable width; stigma- 

 cover longer than broad, even at he orifice, glabrous. Ripe fruit not 

 available. Seeds imbricate in two rows within each cell. 



This rich-flowering species approaches in some of its characteristics 

 to G. pinifolia, in others to G. scapigera. With the former it agrees 

 much in foliage, but the calyces are much larger, the fruits many-seeded 

 and of different structure, though the membrane of the corolla-lobes is 

 also white in that plant. The analysis by Ver Huell, given for the fruit 

 in De Wiese" Goodenovieae, shows ripe seeds as ample as the fruit 

 cavity. We find them much smaller and rather numerous, but in the 

 present species they may not be fully ripe, though already quite dark. 

 With G. scapigera our new plant shares in the shape of the calyces and 

 fruits, size of dissepiment and number of seeds, differing, hovvever, 

 extremely in foliage, much closer inflorescence, and much longer pedicels. 

 Goodenia Watsoni, F. v. M. and Täte. 



Perennial, herbaceous, almost glabrous ; leaves nearly all radical, 

 narrowly lanceolar- or elliptic- cuneate, gradually narrowed into their 

 petioles, remotely denticulated from the middle upward or only towards 

 the summit; axils of petioles lanuginous ; stems peduncle-like; panicle 

 rather long but contracted ; flowers small; pedicels short, most of them 

 miuutely bibracteolate about the middle ; expanding membranes of the 

 corolla-lobes white, narrow without terminal dilations ; anthers blunt; style 

 beset with minute hairlets; stigma cover glabrous except with a hardly 

 pei ceptible ciliolation at the ortifice ; fruit very small, globular-oval ; 

 dissepiment reaching to beyond the middle of the cavity; seeds several 

 in each cell, minute, dark-brown, flat, devoid of marginal expansion. 



At Gnarlbine. 



Here again we have a combination of characteristics of G. scapigera 

 and G. pinifolia, but reversedly as compared to those of Cr. Elderi. Thus 

 G. Watsoni has the leaves like those of G. scapigera, but the small flowers 

 and fruits quite similar to those of G. pinifolia, though in much less 

 spreading panicle. 



The species name is in compliment to Professor Watson, of the 

 Adelaide University, who as Sir Thomas Elder's representative has so 

 largely identified himself with the Organisation of the Expedition. 



Potonie, H., Das natürliche Pflauzensystem A. Engler's und M. Treub's. 



Untersuchungen zur systematischen Stellung von Casuarina. [Fortsetzung und 



Schluss.] (Naturwissenschaftliche Wochenschrift. Bd. VIII. 1893. No. 5. 



p. 41 — 44.) 

 Rusby, H. H., Senecio Robbinsii Oakes. With plate. (Bulletin of the Torrey 



Botanical Club of New-York. Vol. XX. 1893. No 1. p. 19—20.) 



