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received are decidedly pointed, indeed ovate-laneeolar, and the fruit is- 

 beautifully blue outside, a characteristic which separates this speeies from> 

 all otber Australian kinds, and which is not likely subject to Variation. 

 Mr. Thomas Cheeseman in his excellent review of the 31 New Zea- 

 landian speeies of this genus distinguished by him, mentions two as having 

 fruits blueish outside, namely, C. parvißora and C. acerosa, the former 

 otherwise very differeut from our plant, the lattrr of mueh larger size,. 

 with puberulous branchlets, and longer out narrower leaves. Nevertheless 

 C. Petriel is described as varying in the outside colour of the fruit, red 

 in the Nelson, blue in the Otago province, but possibly two speeies became 

 thus confused, in which regard already some indieations are given in the 

 transact. of the N. Z. Inst. XIX. 251 and 252. As the flowers of this 

 plant are not yet known, it remains for some future opportunity to con— 

 rirm the ditferences existing in this respect between Ct. repens and OL 

 Petriei. The fruits are globular or verging into an oval form; so far as 

 seen on this occasion they ripen only one, rarely two seeds. The embryo 

 is only half as long as the albument. Should the Tasmnnian plant, after 

 the flowers have become known, prove a peculiar speeies, then such ought 

 to be distinguished under the finder's name. 

 Panax Gunnii. 



The fruit of this rare shrub was also for the first time obtained for 

 me by Mr. T. B. Moore, who gathered it in deep shady gorges at Mount 

 Lyell, on the Canyon River, the Franklin River and on a tributary of 

 the Pieman's River. It is sueculent, about '/s-inch broad, renate-roundish y 

 turgid, black outside, at the summit five, denticulated and impressed, so* 

 that the styles are hardly visible ; the two nutlets inside are oblique-ovate- 

 or demidiate-roundish, about Ve-inch long, rather turgid, exteriorly grey- 

 brown and nearly smooth. This plant seems to bear flowers already, 

 when only 6in. high, and never to exceed 4ft. in height, unless perhaps 

 in eultivation. 



Styphelia Milligani. 



Under this appellation oecurs the Pentaehondra verticillata in the secondL 

 systematie Census of Australian Planta, p. 178, in antieipation of the fruit 

 proving that of a Styphelia (or Leucopogon), a surmise fully borne out by 

 speeimens sent by Mr. Moore from the highlands of Mount Read and 

 Mount Tyndall, where also a small form of Acacia mucronata is growing^ 

 at elevations between 3,600ft. and 3,900ft. The fruit, as now seen, is only 

 of about 1 /8-inch measurement, nearly globular ; its pericarp is very thin- 

 and outside white; the putamen is five-celled. Possibly the fruit obtained* 

 may be over-aged. Until now the plant was only known from Dr. 

 Milligan's collection. It is from 6in. to 18in. high, but as it is many- 

 branched from the root, Mr. Moore saw individual plant« covering a 

 breadth of 2ft. When out of flower this plant calls to mind, as regards; 

 its aspect, some Pultenaeas. (?) 



It may here not be inappropriate to remark that since Sir Joseph. 

 Hook er finished, in 1860, his süperb work on Tasmanian plants, the 

 following were by me brought under notice as additional among vascu- 

 lares they (coming within the scope of my own researches) as the Tas- 

 manian flora could not be kept apart in treating that of Continental 

 Australia, some few only emanating from other collections : 



Popaver aculeahtm Thunberg. — Cakile maritima Scopoli. — Pittosporum 

 undulatum Andrews. — Comesperma defoliatum F. v. M. — Elaeocarpus 

 reticulatus Smith. — Pseudanthus ovalifolius F. v. M. — Euphorbia Drum- 

 mondi Boissier. — Casuarina bicuspidata Bentham. — Zieria cytisoides 

 Smith. — Zieria veronicea F. v. M. — Eriosternon Oldfieldi F. v. M. — 

 Atriplex paludosum R. Brown. — Polygonum lapathifolium Linne. — Acacia 

 penninervis Sieber. — Acaena montana J. Hooker. (Recorded as a 

 variety in the Fl. Tasm.) — Pimelea Milligani Meissner. — Pimelea strieta 

 Meissner. — Pimelea axißora F. v. M. — Pimelea serpillifolia R. Brown.. 

 — Eucalyptus Sieberiana F. v. M. — Eucalyptus Stuartiana F. v. M. — 

 Panax sambueifolius Sieber. — Hakea ulicina R. Brown. — Hakea no- 

 dosa R. Brown. — C'oprosma Petriei Cheeseman. — Cotula ßlifolia Thun- 



