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

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

 otherwise very different from our plant, the latter of much larger size, 

 with pubenilous branchlets, and longer but narrower leaves. Nevertheless 

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

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

 thus confused, in which regard already some indicatiorjs 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- 

 firm the diiferences existing in this respect between C. repens and C. 

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

 seen on this occasion they ripen only one or two seeds. I find the 

 embryo only half as longas the albument. Should the Tasmanian plant, 

 after the flowers have becorae known, prove a peculiar species, then such 

 ought to be distinguished under the finder's name. 

 Panax Ounnii. 



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 succulent, about '/s-inch broad, renate-roundish, 

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

 that the styles are hardly visible ; the two nutlets inside are obliqueovate 

 or demidiate-roundish, about Vß-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 cultivation. 



Styphelia Milligani. 



Under this appellation occurs the Pentachondra verticillata in the second 

 systematic Census of Australian Plants, p. 178, in anticipation of the fruit 

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

 specsmeus sent by Mr. Moore lrom 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 Vs-hich me asurement, 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 plants covering a. 

 breadth of 2ft. 



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

 Hook er fini.*bed, in 1860, his süperb work on Tasmanian plants, the 

 following were first brought under notice as additional amoug vasculares, 

 with few exceptions by the writer they coming within the scope of his 

 own researches, as the Tasmanian flora could not be kept apart in trea- 

 ting that of Continental Australia: 



Papaver aculeatum Thunberg. — Cakile maritima Scopoli. — Pitto- 

 sporum undulatum Andrews. — Comesperma defoliatum F. v. M. — Elaeo- 

 corpus reticulatus Smith. — Pseudanthus ovalifolius F. v. M. — Euphorbia 

 Drummondi Boissier. — Casuarina bicuspidata Bentham. — Zieria cyti- 

 soides Smith. — Z. veronicea F. v. M. — Eriostemon 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. — P. stricta: 

 Meissner. — P. axiflora F. v. M. — P. serpillifolia R. Brown. — Eu- 

 calyptus Siberiana F. v. M. — Eu. Stuartiana F. v. M. — Panax sambuci- 

 folius Sieber. — Hakea ulicina R. Brown. — H. nodosa R. Brown. — 

 Coprosma Petriei Cheeseman. — Cotula filifolia Thunberg. — Calocephalus 

 citreus Lessing. — Cassinia longifolia R. Brown. — Podosperma angusti- 

 folium Labillardiere. — Ixiolaena supina F. v. M. — Leptorrhynchus niti- 

 dulus De Candolle. — Helichrysum Spiceri F. v. M. — H. Gravesii F. v. M. 



— Anaphalis Meridithae F. v. M. — Lobelia platycalyx F. v. M. — L. 

 rhombifolia De Vriese. — L. Broivniana Roemer u. Schultes. — L. micro- 



