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Tree attaining a heiglit of 25 feet. Leaves to 8 inclies long and to 

 2V2 inches broad, not very aroniatic. Petioles often 1 inch long. Peduncles 

 to 3 inches long. Pedicels few or two or even solitary. Flowers uuknown, 

 Ripe fruitlets of l \t — V a inch measurement. 



To this plant was alluded already in the „Fragm. Phytogr. Austr." 

 VII. 18. 



This species differs from D. Hotoeana in almost enlire absence of 

 aroma, in leaves of larger size, of thinner texture, of far less prominent 

 vennlation and with the dots not transparent, in the perfect Separation of 

 the sepals and probably also in characteristics of the flowers. lt comes 

 very near to Drimys rivularis (Vieillard) of New Caledonia, but the petioles 

 are much longer, the venules of the leaves more occult, the inflorescence 

 is less ramitied, the ovularies are fewer, and also in this case the flowers, 

 which in an only specimen available here for comparison are not deve- 

 loped, inay be different. 



Bladh ia pacliyrrhachis. 

 (Ardisia pacliyrrhachis F. v. M. collect.) 



Arborescent, glabrous ; leaves of firm texture, on very short petioles, 

 elongate-lanceolar, rather blunt, towards the bass cuneate, entire, devoid 

 of lustre, the venules faint or almost concealed; flowers in solitary terminal 

 fascicles; peduncles robust, rather short or even obliterated ; rachis often 

 somewhat elongated, remarkably thick ; pedicels many times longer than 

 the flowers, often numerous; calyx very small, its lobes semiorbicular- 

 deltoid; corolla deeply five-cleft, its divisions about twice as long as their 

 breadth, acuminated; filaments extremely short; anthers pale, somewhat 

 cordate-sagittate, rather more than half as long as the corolla ; style subu- 

 late ; fruit moderately large, globular. 



In the upper region of Mount Bartle-Frere ; Stephen Johnson. 



Greatest height known, 15 feet. Leaves to 8 inches long and to l 1 /« 

 inches broad ; pellucid streaks or dots scarcely perceptible. Peduncle 

 about half an inch long, bearing small deciduous leaves. Rachis usually 

 about V 3 i QC h long and 1 's inch broad, cicatricoixs. Pedicels at an average 

 1 inch long, very tbin, up to 40 in a fascicle, at first beut downward. 

 Corolla of about x / 6 i ncn in length, copiously spotted by purplish-black 

 dots or short streaks, before expansion distinctly twisted. Anthers pointed. 

 Style nearly '/s inch long. Fruit of 1 I* — 1 /s inch measurement. 



This species offers some approach to Myrsine. It differs from B. hrevi- 

 pedata (Ardisia brevipedata) already in larger, thicker and biunter leaves 

 with much concealed dots, in the stout and more elongated rachis of the 

 fascicle of flowers, also in much longer and more rigid pedicels. 



B. psendo-jambosa is more distant. It seems quite distinct from any 

 of the numerous Asiatic Bladhias, unless B. reclinata and B. Amboinensis 

 (Ardisia reclinata and A. Amboinensis Scheffer, Commentatio de Myrsinaceis 

 Archipelagi Indici. 69 et 75). 



By the right of precedence all the Ardisias have to change their names 

 into Bladhias, as Thunberg established that genus seven years before 

 Swartz defined and published Ardisia. 



Mr. Johnson 's collections contain, among rarer plants, also Zieria 

 obcordata, Drosera Adelae, as a variety with cuneate obovate leaves, 

 fully to l 2 /s inches broad, and with somewhat pubescent calyxes, Lorauthus 

 dictyophlebeus with undular-marginate leaves, and Exocarya scleroides. In 

 the same region occurs Andropogon Baileyi {Sorghum laxiflorum Bailey, 

 in Report on the Expedition to the Bellenden-Ker's Ranges. 25); the latter 

 specific name has long since been utilized by Steudel for a species of 

 the section Trachypoyon. The leading agrostographer of the present 

 days, Professor Ed. Ha ekel, also subjugates the genus Sorghum to Andro- 

 pogon.] 

 Pierre, L., Notes botaniques. Sapotacees. 8°. 68 pp. Paris (Klincksieck) 



1891. 

 Terracciano, A., Contributo alla storia del genere Lycium. (Malj)ighia. Vol. IV. 

 1891. Fase. 11/12. p. 472.) 



