Neue Litteratur. I7f' 



Kölliker, Das Karyoplasma und die Vererbung . eine Kritik der W e i s - 

 mann 'sehen Theorie von der Continuität des Keimplasmas. (Zeitschrift 

 für wissenschaftliche Zoologie. XLIV. 1886. No. ;V4-.) 



Loew, E., Weitere Beobachtungen über den Blumenbesuch von Insecten an 

 Freilandpüanzen des Botanischen Gartens zu Berlin. (Sep.-Abdr. aus Jahr- 

 buch des K. Botanischen Gartens zu Berlin. Bd. IV.) S». p. 95—180. Berlin 

 (Gebr. Bornträger) 1886. 



Meyer, Arthur, Ueber die wahre Natur der Stärke - Cellulose Naegeli's. 

 (Botanische Zeitung. XLIV. 1886. No. 41. p. 697.) 



Morel, Octave, Contribution a l'etude de la graine du Croton sebiferum. 

 80. 84 pp. Nancy (Impr. Crepin-Leblond) 1886. 



Stadler, S., Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Nectarien und Biologie der Blüten. 

 80. IV. 88 pp. und 8 lith. Tfln. Berlin (R. Friedländer & Sohn) 1886. M. 8.— 



Systematik und Pflanzengeographie: 



Beketofl", A., Ueber die Flora des Gouvernements Jekaterinoslaw. (Scripta 

 Botanica horti Universitatis imperialis Petropolitani. Heft 1. St. Petersburg 

 1886. p. 1 — 166.) [Russisch mit französischem Resume.] 

 Masters, Maxwell T., Aristolochia Salpinx Mast. n. sp. (The Gardeners' 



Chronicle. New Ser. Vol. XXVI. 1886. No. 667. p. 456.) 

 Mueller, Ferd., Baron von, Description of an hitherto unrecorded species 

 of Eucalyptus from New Britain. (Extra print from the ^Australasian 

 Journal of Pharmacy". July, 1886.) 



[In a small coUection of plants, formed some time ago in New 

 Britain by Mr. J. Turner, occurs what to all appearance is a veri- 

 table species of Eucalyptus, a genus not previously known as repre- 

 sented there, although the Rev. G. Brown spoke already of Eucalyppts, 

 noticed by him in New Ireland during his missionary travels. The 

 closer investigation of the Flora of New Guinea more recently has 

 rendered the comparison of the Papuan Vegetation with that of Australia 

 gradually possible at least to a fractional extent; thus any Australian 

 features in the Flora of any of the adjacent islands have become of 

 augmented interest also now. But the Eucalyptus, referred to on this 

 occasion, interests us not merely phytogeographically, but more parti- 

 cularly as likely affording timber of useful quality and in copious 

 readily available quantity , eucalypts offen being gregarious ; and we 

 may furthermore perhaps gain in this fall species a new tree for 

 tropical forest-culture and possibly even for medicinal products. 



Eucalyptus Naudiniana. — Branchlets valid, angular ; leaves scattered, 

 on short broadish stalks, ovate-lanceolar, acuminate, much paler beneath ; 

 their primary veins distant, thin, very spreading and somewhat ascen- 

 ding , the peripheral vein not quite close to the edge of the leaf ; 

 veinlets subtle; oil-dots much concealed; panicles ample, terminal or 

 from the upper axils ; flowers small, nine or often fewer in each umbel ; 

 stalklets angular, as long as the total calyx or somewhat longer; tube 

 of the latter hemispheric, slightly angular; lid hardly longer, almost 

 semiglobular . suddenly produced into a thin beaklike apex ; stamens 

 all fertile and all inflected while in bud; anthers minute roundish- 

 ovate, bursting longitudinally ; style short; stigma not dilated; ovary 

 surpassed by the calyx -tube, somewhat convex and angular at the 

 summ it. 



Near Spacious Bay; J. Turner. The specimens communicated by 

 Ch. Moore, Esq., F.L.S., Director of the Botanic Garden of Sydney. 

 A tree . attaining a height of about 100 feet. Leaves usually 3—4 

 inches long, 11/4 — 1^/4 inches broad, slightly inequilateral , not very 

 thick in texture . dark-green and shining above , quite dull beneath. 

 Panicles measuring from a few to several inches, the majority of their 

 branches not opposite. Total length of the calyces hardly more than 

 1/6 inch. Stamens very numerous. Style only about ^js inch long. 

 Fruit unknown. This species bears in some respect near affinity to E. 

 Cloeziana ; but the branchlets are much thicker, the leaf-stalks dilated 

 upwards, the leaves broader, less oblique and of firmer structure with 



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