286 Gelehrte Gesellschaften. 



Stigmas two ; fruits streaked along their exceedingly short tube, only slightly 

 excavated at the base , angular from five very spreading stiff prominences, 

 and provided with five deltoid wedge-shaped vertical imperfectly denticulated 

 wing-like membranea, yellowish, tinged with pink; seeds very depressed. 



On barren stony ground , on the western slope of Mount Parry , in the 

 Aroona Range. R. Täte. 



This new Babbagia differs from its congener chiefly in its fruit, the base 

 of which is very much less protracted cylindrically, and the wing-like appen- 

 dages being five in number, almost dimidiated and at least slightly toothed. 

 Through this new plant a close connection is established between Babbagia 

 and Kochia, more particularly so, as K. dichoptera has besides its horizontal 

 fruit-membrane also five vertically - ascending appendages. To some extent 

 Babbagia approaches also Bassia through B. salsuginosa, although the fruits 

 are less hard and five-winged. 



Babbagia acroptera. 



Leaves oblong-semicylindrical ; fruit-calyx above the tubulär base turgid, 

 thence produced into two oblique-roundish or broad-cuneate completely ter- 

 minal and conspicuously stipitated membranous appendages. 



On loamy soils , from the slopes of the Aroona-Range to Lake Torrens. 

 R. Täte. Near Mount Murchison , Dr. Beckler; between Stokes Range 

 and Cooper's Creek, Howitt. 



This plant seems specifically distinct from B. dipterocarpa in the 

 characteristics of its fruit , as the hollow base of the aged calyx is not so 

 wide, as the appendages are neither renate nor half- ascending, stronger 

 stipitated and gradually narrowed at their lower portion ; one of the two 

 appendages is usually not so well developed as the other. The peculiarities 

 of this new form, as here pointed out, do not depend on an impertect ripening 

 of the fruit, as the seeds may be seen well matured. 



In Sir Joseph Hook er 's „Icones Plantarum", xi. 62, pl. 1,078, fruits 

 of both species are illustrated, figure 5 representing that of B. acroptera and 

 figure 6 that of B. dipterocarpa. Both plants occur in the vicinity of Mount 

 Parry , though the latter is somewhat local ; but what we have from the 

 Finke River and from Eyre Creek is solely B. dipterocarpa. An approach 

 is oifered by B. acroptera to the section Osteocarpum of Bassia. 



Loranthus Murrayi. 



Glabrous ; leaves alternate , semiterete , slender , veinless , not exceeding 

 two inches in length, somewhat attenuated at the base ; flowers mostly solitary, 

 sometimes in pairs , on flattened , shortly winged pedicels of about half an 

 inch long, without a common peduncle ; bract unequally bilobed, conspicuous, 

 decurrent on the pedicel ; calyx-tube prominent, glaucous, its border truncate 

 and obscurely toothed ; petals usually six , about ten lines long , united to 

 about the two-thirds of their length into a slightly dilated tube; corolla-tube 

 pale yellow ; segments linear-lanceolate, yellow below, pale rose above ; stigma 

 capitate ; style and filaments brown, anthers adnate, broadly linear ; unripe 

 fruit globular, glaucous. 



Parasitic on Acacia aneura, on sandy ground at Idyaka, near Termination 

 Hill. M. Murray and R. Täte. 



This species was first brought to notice by Malcolm Murray, Esq., 

 whose kind hospitality and active promotion of the field labours of one of 

 US have been the means of introducing to botanical science several new 

 species ; it is , therefore , with very great pleasure that we dedicate to him 

 this new Loranthus. 



L. Murrayi is closely related to L. linearifolius differing, however in 

 several minor particulars, and is separable from it and from its congeners 

 by the peculiarity uf the pedicel. 



