791 

 WEDNESDAY, 30th NOVEMBER, 1881. 



The President J. C. Cox, M.D., F.L.S., &c., in the Chair. 



Mr. Augustus Gross and Mr. Baker were introduced as visitors. 



MEMBERS ELECTED. 



Mr. E. Combes, C.M.G-., and Mr. W. A. Brodribb, M.L.A. 



DONATIONS. 



Southern Science Eecord for October and November, 1881. 

 Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society for August, 1881. 

 Annual Report of the School of Mines, Ballarat. 

 Annual Report of South Australian Institute. 



Reuter's " Ad cognitionem redivivam mundi antiqui, 

 Helsingfors. 



PAPERS READ. 



Two New Species of Plants from New South "Wales 

 By Baron Ferd. von Mueller, K.C.M.G., Ph. & M.D., F.R.S. 



Jacksonia Stackhousii. 



Dwarf, procumbent or ascendant, not pungent ; branchlets 

 very thin, finely or scantily silky, gradually glabrescent, slightly 

 furrowed ; flowers dispersed or in pairs along the upper part of 

 the branchlets ; calyces silvery- silky, little longer than broad, 

 very angular from the prominent edges of the lobes ; upper lip 

 of the calyx divided only to one-third of its length into two 

 deltoid teeth ; lower lip slit to the base into three ovate-lanceolar 

 segments ; tube suddenly narrow, three times shorter than the 

 segments ; petals equally yellow, all of about the same length ; 

 ovary sessile ; pod shorter than the calyx, almost ovate, compressed 

 silky outside, nearly smooth inside ; seeds 1 or 2, grey, minutely 

 blackish-dotted. 

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