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surrounding hracts scarious, dark hrown, almost oval, keeled, imperfectly 

 bearded, short-pointed ; calyces small, enveloped in tvhite intricated deciduous 

 hair ; calyx-tube extending for more than half beyond tlie ovary and disk; 

 lobes much shorter than the tube , permanently ivoolly bearded; petals and 

 stamens inserted near the summH of the calyx-tube ; style short, subtledowny ; 

 Stigmata confluent ; capsule egg-sha2)ed, glabrescent; seeds pale brown. 



On the Severn; Rev. B. Scortechini. 



A shrub probably of several feet in height. Well-developed leaves, froin 

 V2/w. to ^liin. long , ^/nn. to ^jiin. broad , above dark green and sniooth ; 

 flower-heads front abont ^l^in. to nearly lin. in diameter ; their indument 

 lax and sometvhat tvoolly , pretruding considerably beyond ihe involucrating 

 dorsally glabrous bracts; calyces about ^jün. long; fruit measuring nearly 

 ^j*i.n. in length , slightly surpassing the discal lining ; seeds smooth; endo- 

 carpal covering of each seed thin, opening by a simple slit; strophiole mem- 

 branous, whitish, very short, almost cupular. 



TTiis plant is placed into the genus Cryptandra, as the characteristics 

 by which Trymalium, Spyridium and Stenanthemum tvere severed by Fenzel 

 and Reisseck becanie more and more recognised as weak. But , as generic 

 aggregations are alicays artificial, it remains optional, whether this new 

 plant is left in Cryptandra or held apart as a Stenanthemum, to tvhich 

 genus or subgenus it belongs. But it seems best, to return to the views 

 enunciated as early as 1858 by Sir Joseph Hooker, aecording to tvhich 

 Spyridium and Stenanthemum should merge into Cryptandra. Our new 

 species differs already in the form of its leaves from the five or six known 

 Stenanthenia, and is the first of that group from Queensland" .] 

 Mneller, Bar. Ferd. v., Uefinitions ofsome New Australian Plauts. (Southern 

 Science Record. 1888. August.) 



[„Cymbidium Boweri. — Leaves laxe, much elongated, nurrow-lanceolar, 

 upwards flat; racemes very long, with numerous flowers; bracts much shorter 

 than the flower-stalklets ; calyces large; their lobes outside brownish-green, 

 inside dull dark reddish-brown , at the margin yellowish; the Upper of the 

 outher lobes cuneate-obovate ; the two lower cmieate-elliptical , the two inner 

 cuneate-oblong ; labellum about one-third shorter than the other calyx-lobes, 

 in outline almost orbicular, towards the summit divided into three very short 

 lobules, pale yelloivish-green, streaked by darker flabellate veins, above towards 

 the base and centre short downy and along its median line irp to the centre 

 raised by a prominent narrow two-furrowed plate; the middle lobule almost 

 semi-orbicuhtr, ycUow; the lateral lobtdes nearly semiovate, but little shorter 

 than the middle lubnle. 



On theisland „Mandoliana" ofthe Solomon-Group; Lieut. Goldfinch. — 



This species differs already from Cymbidium canaliculatum in larger, 

 laxer, less channeled and more chartaceous leaves, in larger and more copious 

 flowers, and in a more dotvny labellum with very much shorter lobules.'^] 

 Mueller, Bar. Ferd. v., Notes on a new Pimelea. (Melbourne Chemist and 

 Druggist. 1883. October.j 



[„Pimelea penicillaris. — Shrubby; branchlets white-tomentose ; leaves 

 sessile, alternate or nearly opposite, crowded, oval-lanceolar, flat; involucral 

 leaves eight, broadly cordate , about as long as the flower-heads; all leaves 

 silvery silky on both sides; flowers very small, unisexual, brush-like beset 

 with long white silky hair; lobes of the pistilligerous calyx comparatively 

 broad, but three times shorter than the tube; style glabrous; ovary silky 

 towards the summit. 



On Sandland, in the vicinity of the Gwydir. 



This species is defined from very fragmentary material, received through 

 the Rev. Dr. Woolls from T. W. Shepherd, Esq. It bears variously resem- 

 blance to P. sericea , P. argentea, P. Eyrei and partictilarly P. ammocharis, 

 which latter has also the calyx beset with long soft spreading hair; but the 

 species, now here defined, differs from all the four above mentioned in the 

 heart-shaped floral leaves, and may be different also in its staminate flowers 

 and ripje fruits, which remain as yet unknown."] 

 Roth, Saum, A leher gyopär [Gnaphalium Leontopodium] graniten. (.Jahrb. 

 d. Ungar. Karpathen-Ver. X. 1883. p. 338 u. 347.) 



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