2(J Neue Litteratur. 



Licopoli, G., Le poUen de l'Iris tuberosa. (Journal de Microffraphie. 1886. 

 No. 2.) 



Systematik und Pflanzengeographie: 



Amat, Ch., La flore du M'zab. (Revue scientifique. 1886. No. 5.) 

 Battandier, Sur quelques plantes d'Algerie. (Bulletin de la Societe botanique 



de France. T. VIT. No. 7.) 

 Bericht über neue und wichtigere Beobachtungen aus dem Jahre 1884. Ab- 

 gestattet von der Commission für die Flora von Deutschland. (Berichte 



der Deutschen botanischen Gesellschaft. III. 1885. p. LXXXI.) 

 Camns, G., Sur une variäte nouvelle du Polygala calcarea. (Bulletin de la 



Sociätö botanique de France. T. VII. No. 7.) 



, Iconographie des Orchidees des environs de Paris. (1. c.) 



, Sur une herborisation a Chambly. Oise. (1. c.) 



Clos, Sur la Vegetation d'un coin meridional du departement du Tarn. (1. c.) 

 Crepin , Fran^ois , Nouvelles remarques sur le Rosa oxyacantha M. B. 



(Comptes rendus des seances de la Societe royale de botanique de Belgique 



a Bruxelles. 1886. p. 38.) 

 Deflers, Herborisations dans les montagnes volcaniques d'Aden. (Bulletin 



de la Societe botanique de France. T. VII. No. 7.) 

 Hart, J. H., La patrie du Laelia monophylla Hook. (La Belgique Horticole. 



1885. p. 221.) 

 Leclerc du Sabloii , Sur quelques formes singulieres des Cucurbitacees. 



(Bulletin de la Societe botanique de France. T. VII. No. 7.) 

 Meyer, F. W., Une excursion aux iles Scilly. (Uebersetzt aus Deutsche 



Grärtnerzeitung. 1885. p. 17 in La Belgique Horticole. 1885. p. 222.) 

 Morren, Edonard, Les Cyrtanthus. Esquisse du genre a propos du Cyrtanthus 



Macowani. Av. planche. (La Belgique Horticole. 1885. p. 197.) 

 — — , Description du Caraguata Osyana Morr. Av. 2 planches. (1. c. p. 254.) 



Mueller, Baron Ferd. Ton, Description of a new Melastomaceous plant 

 from New Guinea. (From Wing's Southern Science Record. Vol. II. New 

 Series. For January, 1886.) 



[Medinilla Maidenii. 

 (Pachycentria Maidenii, F. v. M.j 



Stern short , simple , suffruticose , somewhat verrucular , rooting at 

 its lower portions ; leaves large, sessile or decurrent into a short stalk, 

 rather membranous , lanceolar-ovate , strongly fivenerved , as well as 

 all other parts of the plant quite glabrous, the outer pair of nervee 

 arising from above the base of the leaf at some distance from the 

 commencement of the inner pair ; veins very faint, not crowded ; flowers 

 in mostly distant facicles towards and at the lower portion of the 

 stem ; stalklets bearing minute linear acute bracts and bracteoles at 

 their base . not jointed , about as long as the rather small flowers or 

 somewhat longer ; calyx urceolar-campanulate, quite truncated, smooth, 

 somewhat extending beyond the flat-topped ovary ; petals four, oblique 

 cuneate-obovate , rose-colored ; stamens eight; anthers rather sb ort, 

 nearly as long as the filaments , narrow oblong-cylindrical , gradually 

 attenuated upwards, but not beaked, opening by a terminal pore and 

 also by a longitudinal slit, the connective spurred at the base by a 

 short blunt somewhat recurved appendage, but without any anterior 

 enlargement ; style about as long as the stamens ; stigma minute, 

 spherical ; berry small, pale, pulpy, roundish, more turgid towards the 

 base, more attenuated towards the truncated summit; seeds exceedingly 

 numerous, very minute, ovate, smooth, the turgid blunt hyaline raphe 

 almost as large as the pale brownish-yellow nucleus. 



Near the Strickland-River ; W. Baeuerlen. 



A seemingly semiparasitic plant, the specimens seen about two feet 

 high and unbranched. Stem obtusely quadi-angular. Leaves not unlike 

 those of M. speciosa, developed only on the Upper part of the stem, 

 opposite, to 10 inches long and to 5 inches broad, somewhat pellucidly 

 dotted , flat , paler beneath. Flowers in the fascicles several or few ; 

 peduncles obliterated ; pedicels thin , i/* ^^ V^ i^ch long. Flowering 



