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lanceolar, those at the base of the branchea and branchlets very sraall, 

 cylindric-linear or often reduced to minute almost semilanceolar bract- 

 like scales ; ultimate branchlets exceedingly thin , almost capillary, 

 many of them hook-like or tendril-like recui'ved ; stalklets terminal, 

 aolitary, longer than the calyx, minutely bibracteolate ; flowers small ; 

 calyx closely beset with very short glandulär hair, its lobes semi- 

 elliptic , shorter than the tube , bearing some longer scattered hair, 

 corolla dull-yellow, outaide minutely glandular-pubescent and towards 

 the summit hairy, inaide nearly glabroua; segments of the upper lip 

 unilaterally broad-acarious ; lobes of the lower lip very short, not 

 membranoualy expanded ; anthers blunt; style nearly glabroua ; indusium 

 except the orifice not conspicuously bearded ; capsuie small, globular- 

 ovate , somewhat protruding beyond the calyx , septate only at the 

 base ; seeds 3-5 ripening, comparatively large, nearly flat, grey-brownish, 

 surrounded by an exceedingly narrow not membranous margin. 



On the Alligator-River; Moritz Holtze. The specimens obtained 

 6-9 inches high. Radical leaves obviously narrowed into a stalk, but 

 soon perishing. Sterns several from a somewhat cylindric probably 

 perennial root , erect in their lower portion , amply spreading into in- 

 numerable almost divaricate branchlets. Calyces only about '/s inch 

 long. Corolla scarcely more than '/^ inch in length ; only narrow 

 vestiges of membranous expansions on the lobes. Ötyle shorter than 

 the corolla. Fruit not fully V^ inch long. Seeds ovate, about half as 

 long as the fruit-valves. 



This species introduces quite a new feature into the genua, ita intri- 

 cate ramification being much like that of Leschenaultia divaricatd, 

 Trachymene ramosisaima and Corynotheca dichotoraa. Systematic 

 affinity brings our new plant neareat to G. micropteza, from which 

 (like from all other congeners) it diifers widely in habit, besides in the 

 remarkable reduction of the leaves , in inflorescence , almost glabrous 

 style, nearly obliterated septum of the capsuie and seeds not broadly 

 margined. From G. Arniitiana it is still further removed, although in 

 that plant the fruit-aeptum remains likewise almost undeveloped. 



Like other species of the genus Goodenia, this one also shares in 

 the tonic bitterness , to which for therapeutic purposes I drew i>ublic 

 attention already in a departmental report, presented to the Legis- 

 lative Council in 1853, when also many other plants of Australia be- 

 came for the first time recorded as medicinal. 



All Goodenias have to us here a further special iuterest, aa the genus 

 was dedicated by Sir .James Smith, the founder of the Linnean 

 Society, to the Right Reverend Dr. Samuel Goodenough, Bishop 

 of Carlisle, a vice-president of the society, in appreciation of his rese- 

 arches on Bi-itish Carices and Algae, this distinguiahed prelate having 

 the fame of his name continued in Australia eapecially through hia 

 grandaon , the noble-minded Commodore Goodenough , who so sadly 

 feil victim to the treachery of aavages not far from our shores , when 

 in command of the Australian. Naval Station.] 



Peter, A., Urspi-ung und Geschichte der Alpenflora. (Zeitschrift des deutschen 



und österreichischen Alpenvereins. Bd. XVI. 1885.) 

 Reichenbach, H. d. fll., Oncidium pardoglossum n. sp. (The Gardeners' 



Chronicle. New Ser. Vol. XXV. 1886. No. 646. p. 617.) 

 Sabransky, Henrik., Pozaony környekenek rözsai. Rosae ditionis Posoniensis. 



(Magyar Növenytani Lapok. X. 1886. No. 107.) 



Yelenovsky, J., Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Bulgarischen Flora. (Sep.-Abdr. 

 aus Abhandlungen d. k. Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wiasenschaften zu Prag. 

 VII. Folge. Bd. I. Math.-naturw. Classe. No. 8.) Fol. 47 pp. Prag 1886. 



Paläontologie : 



Blanckenhorn, Max, Die fosf?ile Flora des Buntsandsteines und des Muschel- 

 kalks der Umgegend von Commern. (Sep.-Abdr. aus Palaeontographica. 

 Bd. XXXII.) Fol. p. 117—154 und 8 Tfln. Stuttgart (E. Schweizerbartj 1886. 



