Neue Litteratur 147 



Systematik und Pflanzengeographie: 



Comes, Orazio, Le lave, il terreno Vesuviano e la loro vegetazione. (Estr. 

 dallo Spettatore del Vesuvio e dei Campi Flegrei 1887.) 4o. 19 pp. Napoli 



1887. 



Le Grrand, Antoine, Flore analytique du Berry, contenant toutes les plantes 

 vasculaires spontanees ou cultivees en grand dans les departements de 

 l'Indre et du Cher. 8». LXVl, 349 pp. Bourges (Soumard-Berneau) 1887. 



Magnin, Ant., Enumeration des plantes qui croissent dans le Beaujolais, 

 pr^cädee d'une notice sur B. Vaivolet et les anciens botanistes de cette 

 region. 8o. 128 pp. Lyon (Georg) 1887. 



Mueller, Ferdinand, Baron von, Remarks on a new Victorian Haloragis, 

 and on the occurrence of the genus Pluchea within the Victorian Territory. 

 (From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria. 1887. Aug.) 



Haloragis Baeuerlenii. 



Very tall, glabrous, leaves comparatively large, all opposite and of 

 equal form, somewhat decurrent into the short stalk, lanceolar, crenate- 

 serrulated, faintly veined, the apex of the serratures deciduous, leaving 

 a callous base, the upper leaves not much smaller, and never alternate ; 

 flowers, at least in part, axillary and solitary ; two of the calyx-lobes 

 deltoid , the two others dilated , or truncate-rhomboid ; tube of the 

 calyx, when fruit-bearing, expanded into four broadish, conspicuously- 

 veined membranes, of these, two on each side of the somewhat com- 

 pressed tube approximated ; styles four, very short; stigmas beardless; 

 fruit rather large, four-celled, pendant from a stalklet of half or nearly 

 its length ; pericarp spongy ; seeds irregularly developed. 



Between rocks in ravines, on and near the summit of Mount Tingi- 

 ringi , at an elevation of about 5000 feet, W. Bäuerlen. This 

 remarkable and seemingly quite local plant attains a height of five 

 feet, the stem finally gaining an inch in thickness. Brauches sprea- 

 ding ; branchlets opposite, quadrangular, as well as the young shoots 

 offen of a reddish tinge. Leaves mostly from one to two inches long, 

 and from one-third to half inch broad, flat, gradually narrowed into 

 the acute apex, dark-green above, somewhat lighter colored beneath ; 

 the leaves of young shoots pinnati-lobed in their lower portion. Pedicels, 

 so far as seen, solitary in the axils, but perhaps also sometimes race- 

 mosely arranged, as would appear from remnants of flowering summits 

 of branchlets. Stamens, as yet unknown, only fruit-bearing specimeus 

 having been obtained. Fruit, roundish-ovate in outline, from bardly 

 one-quarter to fully one-third inch long , the four surrounding mem- 

 branes two and two confluent with the broadest lobes of the calyx, 

 and decurrent much beyond the fruit-cells , the latter small in pro- 

 portion to the pericarp. Matured seeds not available yet. 



This species shows most affinity to H. racemosa, from the mild coast- 

 region and low hüls of South-western Australia, the only other congener 

 (unless H. alata and H. monospermaj, which attains to great height, 

 but the leaves are generally shorter, their denticles rather curved in- 

 ward than spreading and soon getting blunt ; the floral leaves often 

 at least do not become much diminished in size ; the fruit is pro- 

 portionately broader, its longitudinal membranes are more expanded, 

 and not almost equally distant, while its endocarp is harder. Whether 

 the petals are gradually much acuminated and generally longer than 

 the stamens, as those of H. racemosa, remains yet to be ascertained. 

 The last-mentioned species should also be placed into the section of 

 appositi florae. Mr. W. Webb found it on Mount Lindsay ; Mrs. 

 M'Hard, near the Blackwood River. In various respects our new 

 sub-alpine plant is allied also to H. scordioides, H. alata and H. gossei. 

 Now an apt opportunity is afforded to point out, that the genuine H. 

 alata from New Zealand and the Chatham Islands cannot be regarded 

 as absolutely identical with the East Australian plant, admitted under 

 that name into the Flora Australiensis, in as much as the small blunt 



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