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almost oval, recurved. Fruit hardly I inch long ; the stipes of 

 nearly the same length. Seeds numerous, without any appendage. 

 This species approaches G aquatica; it was hitherto known 

 from Upper India, Ceylon, China and Java ; it is the second Aus- 

 tralian Gentiana, the only other being G. saxosa, which is very 

 variable, as shown in my " Vegetation of the Chatham Islands," 

 pp. 40 and 41 (1864), it assuming in our alps and in our lowlands 

 various forms of no specific value, just as in New Zealand, the 

 Auckland and Campbell Islands and in the remotest South of 

 America. G. quadriforia has with us probably been often passed 

 unnoticed ; its extreme smallness and its external resemblance to 

 some species of Lobelia tending to its eluding observation. In all 

 probability it will yet be discovered in the Australian Alps, and 

 in New England as a companion of Polygala Sihirica, Thesium 

 australe, Lysimaclda Japonica, and some other plants common to 

 the cooler regions of Australia and of South Eastern Asia. 



The specimens sent by Mr. Baeuei'len are all very small, and 

 thus resemble much the G. squarrosa ; indeed they come also very 

 near the Linnean G. aquatica. 



Incidentally may be here offered a few additional notes con- 

 cerning Australian gentianeous plants. Sehaea alhidxflora occurs 

 at the entrance of the Barwon (J. Bracebridge Wilson) ; on the 

 Wimmera (D. Sullivan) ; near Lake Bonney (Mrs. Dr. Wehl). 

 S. ovata extends to the Upper Brisbane River (Dr. Prentice). 

 Erythraea australis is on the coast-meadows of Port Phillip, not 

 rarely reduced to a one-flowered state, sometimes attaining only 

 1|- inches in height. Canscora diffusa grows also on the Etheridge 

 River (W. Armit), and near Trinity Bay (W. Sayer). The close 

 affinity of Limnantlbemum, particularly in its section Villarsia, to 

 Velleya, has already been pointed out in the Journal of the 

 Pharmac. Soc. of Vict., 1858, p. 145. 



Limnanthemum hidicum has been found by Miss A. Edwards 

 on the Richmond River ; the leaves attain a circumference of 

 three feet. L. Gunnii extends to New Zealand (Petrie), but has as 

 yet not been noticed in the Avtstralian Alps. 



