Neue Litteratur. 93 



Hock, F., Kosmopolitische Pflanzen. (Naturwissenschaftliche Wochenschrift. 



Bd. VIII. 1893. Nu. 14. p. 135.) 

 Linton, Edward F., Alchemilla. (Journal of Botany. XXXI. 1893. p. 122.) 

 — — , Epilobium Lamyi F. Schultz. (I. c. p. 123.) 

 Mathews, W., County botany of Worcester. [Cont.] (Midland Naturalist. 1893. 



No. 3.) 

 Mueller, Ferdinand, Baron von, Descriptions of new Australian plants, 

 with occasional other annotations. [Continued.] (Froro the Victorian Naturalist, 

 1893 March.) 



Solanum Lucani. 



Somewhat frutescent and diffused, bearing a very thin, almost velvety 

 vestiture, beset except on the leaves with short prickles ; petioles mostly 

 long but slender; leaves from cordate-ovate to elliptic-laneeolar, often 

 repand at the margin, almost of eqiial green on buth sides ; peduncles 

 conspicuous, 2- to 4-flo\vered; pedicels soon elongated ; calyx duriug- 

 anthesis small, copiously beset with prickles, its lobes miuute, acute, its 

 tube enlarging all round the fruit ; corolla very much exceeding the calyx, 

 unarmed, white, haidly lobed, the greater portion outside glabrous ; 

 anthers slender, discoherent; style capillary, almost glabrous ; berry 

 spherical ; seeds renate-orbicular. 



At Cambridge-Gulf ; Aug. L u c a n u s. 



Stern to 1 l J2 feet long. Prickles on the petioles, peduncles and 

 pedicels usually very small; leaves laxe, occasionally bearing some few 

 prickles, their maximum length 4 inches, their greatest breadth 2 inches, 

 the stellular hairlets on the upper page r.ther scattered ; racemes including 

 the peduncles attaining to 4 inches length; pedicels finally lengthening 

 to 1 inch and distant; corolla about 8 /4 inch wide, of very tender texture ; 

 berries quite concealed by the calyx, measuring fully V a inch, their colour 

 as yet unascertained. 



This species differs chiefly from S. Cunninghami in lesser indument, 

 copious prickles, thin texture of the leaves, shoi'tness of the calyx-lobes, 

 smaller, almost lobeless corolla, and the fruit of S. Cunninghami will 

 probably prove also different, and be more like that of S. cataphr actum. 

 Our present plant is already distinguishable from S. sporadotrichum in 

 closer vestiture, absence of prickles on the leaves, but presence on the 

 inflorescence, form of the calyx, and probably also in fruit characteristics. 

 Utricularia Ka m ienskii. 



Dwarf, annual ; root very short, capillularly übrilliferous; stem 1- to 

 3-flowered, extremely thin ; leaves early evanescent or undeveloped ; bracts 

 and bracteoles ba^inxed, narrow, finely pointed, pedicels longer than their 

 flowers; upper sepal orbicular-ovate, lower slightly and acutely bifid; 

 corolla white, its upper portion narrow, slightly and bluntly bilobed ; 

 lower portion somewhat longer than the upper, nearly to the middle 

 divided into three rather narrow bluntish lobes ; basal protrusion cylindric- 

 conical, blunt, hardly shorter than the upper expansion. 

 Near the Adelaide-River; M. and N. Holtze. 



Height 2 to 6 inches. Length of pedicels generally from V 2 to 

 1 inch. Lower expansion of the corolla ] / 4 — 1 l a inch long. Fruit not yet 

 obtained. 



This delicate and evidently rare species is dedicated to Dr. F. Kamienski, 

 professor in the University of Odessa, who was the first to furnish a 

 complete morphologic account of a terrestrial Utricularia (the Australian 

 U. lateriflora), who elaborated the Lentibtilarinae for Englers and Frantl's 

 „Pflanzen-Familien", who travelled as far as south-eastern Asia for the 

 study of this order of plants, and who is now engaged on the monographic 

 elucidation of the species from all parts of the globe. 



U. compressa may possibly be represented by this plant; but R. Brown's 

 notes, probably from Solander's manuscriptSj are so extremely brief, as to 

 admit of no safe identification, and specimens of the particular plant from 

 Cook's first expeditions exist novvhere now. 

 Utricularia Holtzei. 



Polypompholyx Holtzei, F. v. M. coli. Dwarf; pitchers few or unde- 

 veloped ; stem capillulary-thin, usually one-flowered ; bracts and bracteoles 



