186 ON HITHERTO UNRECORDED AUSTRALIAN PLANTS, 



DESCRIPTION'S OF HITHERTO UNRECORDED 

 AUSTRALIAN PLANTS, 



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



(Continued from page 22.) 

 MUSGRAVEA, g.n. 



Flowers small, in spike-like racemes, nearly straight before 

 expansion. Petals separately seceding. Stamens inserted near 

 the summit of the petals. Free portion of filaments very short. 

 Anthers apiculate. Hypogynous scalelets usually three, some- 

 what distant from each other, upwards gradually pointed. Style 

 capillary. Stigma terminal, conical-ovate. Ovulary sessile; ovules 

 two, laterally attached, their base free. Fruit comparatively 

 large, dimidiate-orbicularly ellipsoid ; pericarp hard, anteriorly 

 dehiscent. 



MuSGRAVEA STENOSTACIIYA. 



On Mount Bellenden-Ker, W. Sayer ; on the Johnston River, 

 Dr. Th. L. Bancroft. 



A tree, known to attain 50 feet in height, and perhaps getting 

 even higher. Leaves of very firm consistence, scattered or crowded, 

 on stalks of moderate length or short-stalked, from 2 to 4 inches 

 long, obovate-elliptical, entire, above glabrous, beneath greyish or 

 brownish from a very thin vestiture ; primary lateral venules 

 pennular-spreading ; ultimate venules closely reticular-joined, 

 rather prominent beneath. Racemes very slender, many-flowered, 

 from 2 to 8 inches long, forming terminal panicles. Flowers 

 about \ inch long; in pairs on very short stalks, but unprovided 

 with stalklets ; each pair from the summit of the stalk supported 

 by three much persistent very short bracts. Petals outside beset 

 with appressed greyish hairlets. Style about l inch long, glabrous 

 towards the summit. Stigma minute. Ovulary bearing a brownish 

 close vestiture. Fruit (sent separately) much attenuated into the 

 base, about 2 inches long ; pericarp thick, almost lignescent and 



