114 Neue Litteratur. 



Loret, H. et Barrandon, A., Flore de Montpellier ou analyse des plantes 

 vasculaires de l'Herault. Seconde edition. Revue et corrigee par Henri 

 Loret. 80. LXXVI, 664 pp. Montpellier (Jos. Calas); Paris (G. Masson) 

 1886. 10 fr. 



Mueller, Ferd. Baron von, Description of a New Papuan Dilleniaceous 

 Plant. (Extra print from the Victorian Naturalist. February. 1886.) 



[Wormia Macdonaldi. 



Shrubby : leafstalkes rather long , glabrous , slender , not dilated by 

 marginal expansions ; leaves chartaceous, nearly ovate, rounded at the 

 base, somewliat acute at the summit, slightly repand and only minutely 

 denticulated at the margin , glabrous on both sides ; nerves 15 to 22 

 prominent from each side of the midrib, rather near to each other ; 

 veins almost transverse between the nerves , very subtile or almost 

 obliterated ; peduncles not much longer than the petioles, bearing only 

 2 or 3 flowers , as well as the pedicels and calyces nearly glabrous ; 

 sepals about half as long as the petals, orbicular-ovate, slightly cilio- 

 lated , otherwise glabrous ; petals not very large , obovate - cuneate, 

 gradually much narrowed towards the base ; stamens on one side of 

 the flower much less numerous than on the other, those of the inner 

 row considerably longer ; pistils generally seven ; ovaries glabrous. 



On the Strickland-River; W. Baeuerlen. 



Height according to collector's note about 12 feet. Leaves on the 

 only specimen obtained to 61/^ inches long and to 3 inches broad, not 

 much paler on the lower side ; leafstalkes to two inches long ; wingless 

 at least in age. Stalklets during anthesis about as long as the calyx. 

 Sepals of firm consistence, 1/2—^/^^ inch long. Petals measuring about 

 an inch in length, but even towards the summit, hardly half an inch 

 in breadth ; color not recognizable , probably yellow. Inner stamens 

 considerably shorter than the calyx; outer about V^ inch long; anthers 

 all exceedingly narrow , opening by minute terminal pores. Styles 

 lineai'-subulate, recurved. Fruit not obtained. 



This species is netirest related to W. oblonga, from which however 

 it is distinguished already by its flowers being glabrous and only half 

 the size, and by the lesser number of ovaries. From W. ochreata it 

 is distinctly separated by its leaves not being conspicuously serrated 

 and by showing a closer nervature, further by narrower petals and 

 probably also by its fruit. 



This highly ornamental plant bears now the name of A. C. Macdo- 

 nald, Esq., F.R.G.S., as a slight token of scientific appreciation of bis 

 strenuous exertions as hon. Treasurer and Secretary of the Victorian 

 brauch of the Australian geographic Society , for the furtherance of 

 Capt. Everill's Expedition.] 



, Notes on a new Papuan Uncaria. (Extra print from the Australasian 



Journal of Pharmacy. February. 1886.) 



[Among the plants, recently brought by Captain Everill's Expedition 

 from New Guinea, is one, which in all probability will become of 

 medicinal and industrial importance, as yielding Gambir, and it is 

 thus selected for early special notice in this Journal. 



Uncaria Bernaysii. — Branchlets robust, distinctly quadrangular ; leaves 

 on very short stalks, rather membranous, nearly ovate, short-acuminate, 

 rounded at the base, as well as the branchlets glabrous ; stipules almost 

 deltoid , bifid ; peduncles several times shorter than the leaves , their 

 lower Joint gradually compressed downward , glabrous , the upper 

 slightly downy, also shorter and thinner., bearing at the summit very 

 numerous flowers; involucels extremely short, deciduous ; stalklets about 

 as long as the calyces, and as well as these greyish-silky ; limb of the 

 calyx deeply cleft ; lobes linear-oblong, nearly of the length of the tube 

 while flowering, the inside convex towards the summit; fruit slender, 

 ellipsoid-cyjindrical, gradually attenuated at the base and summit, 

 several times longer than the lobes and not separated from them by 

 any elongated neck-like attenuation; appendages of the seeds many 



