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This hitherto uurecorded plant exhibits many of the characteristics of 

 E. spicata, but its coroJla is never syzygoid, although this affords neither 

 an absolute mark of distinction for that species ; the leaves are generally 

 smaller, the pedicels seem never to become conspicuously developed, the 

 ultimate peduncles are shorter, the flowers less numerous iu the pauicle 

 and thus less umbellular-fasciculed but partly somewhat spicate, and the 

 fruit, when known, may show further differences. 



Hypsophila oppositifolia. 



Leaves on ratner long petioles, mostly opposite and ovate-lanceolar, 

 bluntly acuminated ; panicles many-flowered, cymous, terminal and axillary;. 

 sepals connate towards the base ; petals ovate, outside beset with short 

 appressed hairlets ; filaments much incurved, considerably longer than the 

 anthers, stoutish, dark-purplish, hispidulous ; style very short ; Stigma 

 much broader, depressed ; disc as well as ovulary glabrous. 



On Mount Bartle-Frere; Stephen Johnson. 



Leaves l 1 /* to 3 inches long, therefore smaller than those of H. Nalleyaiui, 

 fr om which the diagnostics above given readily distinguish this congener. 

 Should nevertheless it pass by middle forms into the plant tirst described 

 within this genus, then the additioual notes, now offered, will further 

 build out the specific definition. Fruit of the new form has not been 

 found yet. 



Bellschmiedia lach nostemonea. 



Leaves mostly ovate- or elliptic-lanceolar, protracted into a short 

 blunt acumen, glabrous, closely reticular-venulated, on both sides shining; 

 panicle beset with minute appressed hairlets, sepals and petals almost of 

 equal length, nearly oval, connate towards their bases ; the six stamens 

 of first rank somewhat shorther than the sepals aud petals, the three of second 

 rank still shorter, the filaments all brownish-lanuginous ; staminoides three, 

 very short; pistil in staminate flowers narrow-conic, glabrous, with a 

 minute stigma. 



Russell's-Kiver ; W. Sayer. 



The plant in its characteristics fits closely B. Boxburghiana, of which 

 however even for India the specific limits remain yet unsettled, it being 

 so difficult to obtain from jungle-trees the flowers and ripe fruits 

 simultaneously at the same localities. The plant, now described as new 

 at all events for Australia, seems to differ from the typic B. Roxburghiana, 

 which is ueither yet recorded from the Sunda-lslauds, in somewhat smaller 

 leaves, shorter petioles, more elongated panicles, more lanuginous filaments 

 and uarrower staminoides ; the fruit, as yet unknown, may also be 

 different. The flowers are conspicuously larger than those of B. obtusifolia, 

 the only other Australian cougener as yet discovered, and some other 

 differences occur between the two. 



Endiandra dichrophylla. 



Branchlets bearing a very thin silk-like vestiture ; leaves rather large, 

 ovate-lanceolar or almost ovate, short -acuminate, dark-green on the 

 surface, much paler on the lower page and there bearing a very subtle- 

 appressed indument, rather strongly keeled, their primary venules thin 

 and devoid at their axils of conspicuous foveoles, the secondary venules 

 reticular; panicles usually much shorter than the leaves, axillary and 

 terminal, bearing a very thin somewhat silk-like vestiture, bracts rather 

 conspicuous, ovate-lanceolar; flowers very sniall, on extreinely short 

 pedicels; sepals somewhat larger than the petals, with these connate below 

 the middle and persistent; filaments extreinely short; fruit narrow- 

 ellipsoid; pericarp very thin, outside black, glabrous; endoplenra of the 

 seed brown. 



RussellVRiver ; Stephen Johnson. Height of tree, as far as ascertaiued, 

 to 40 feet. Leaves 2 — 5 inches long, l 1 /» — 2 broad, their petioles rather 

 short. Fruit when well developed about 1 inch long. The leaves resemble 

 rather those of Cryptocarya patentinervü, than those ot any Australian 

 Endiandra, although four of the congeners have the leaves also greyish 

 underneath, but the costulation is less prominent and copious than in 

 most of the others, while besides various recorded characteristics separate 



