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Solarium Bauer iana^ Eridl., the fruit of which was described 

 to me as " like a bright red elongated tomato." 

 Triticum Kingianu7n, Endl. 



Nepean Island. 



A smaller island than Phillip, Nepean Island by name, is quite 

 close to Norfolk Island and is grass-covered, with one solitary 

 weather-beaten Norfolk Island Pine upon it. It is covered with 

 grass and has no running water. It is about fifty feet high, a 

 quarter of a mile long, and is of a horse-shoe shape. 



Lieut.-Governor King wrote as follows concerning it on the 

 29th November, 1788 : 



" At 9 a.m. I went out in the coble and landed on Nepean's Isle, which I 

 found a lump of entire sand; which is kept together by a border of rocks. 

 Notwithstanding the deep sand, this island produces near two hundred very 

 fine pines " (Hist. Rec. N.S.W., ii. p. 600.) 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXXVIII. 



Dysoxylon Patersonianum, Benth. & Hook. f. 



Fig. 1. — Epidermis paginae superioris. 

 Fig. 2. — Epidermis paginse inferioris. 

 Fig. 3. — Foliolum cmn nervo laterali transverse sectum (160 x auctum). 



a. Epidermis paginae superioris; b. Hypoderma; c. Staurenchyma (Palis- 

 sades) ; d. Pneumatenchyma ; e. Epidermis paginas inferioris ; /. Cellulae 

 hypodermatis rostallophorae ; y. CeHulae pneumatenchymatis ; h. Cellulae 

 secretoriae (resiniferse); i. Fasciulus vasorum longitudinaliter sertus; ^^ Fasci- 

 culus vasorum transversim sertus; U. Stomata; 77im. Insertiones glandularum 

 decisarum (L. Radlkofer). 



