96 jEivart and White: 



While near to both G. conciniia and G. Hool-eriana, the very 

 prominent concave and tongue-like hypogynous gland readily 

 distinguishes it from both species. Other differences lie in the 

 frequently segmented but hardly compound leaves, more rigid 

 and paler ; the hairs outside the perianth and ovary whitish 

 instead of brown ; pedicels slightly longer ; stalk of ovary 

 somewhat shorter. 



Monti A fontana, L. (Portulaccaceae). 



This small cosmopolitan was originally recorded (in Aus- 

 tralasia) from Tasmania, and later was found in Victoria and 

 New South Wales. A specimen of it in the Herbarium from 

 Perth was originally queried as Tillaea, and was apparently 

 collected by W. V. Fitzgerald. It will probably be found over 

 the whole of the south of Australia. Some of the specimens 

 approach the variety recognised as a species by Gmelin (M. 

 minor, Gmelin, Fl. Bad., i., 301). The plants are, however, 

 practically identical. (See PI. XIX., Fig. 4). 



PoDOPETALUM Ormondi, F. v. M. (Leguminosae). 



This Queensland plant was made the type of a new genus 

 by Mueller (Melbourne Chemist and Druggist, June, 1882), but 

 without describing the species, which is accordingly referred 

 in the Kew Index to "F. v. M. Census^ nomen." Bailey refers 

 the species to the first citation. The specific description is, 

 however, given in the Garden and the Field, April, 1884, p. 174, 

 and as that may be inaccessible, is here repeated. 



" Pod on a stipe of rather more than half an inch, somewhat 

 compressed; valves coriaceous, tardily separ^ating, hardening 

 through exsiccation, to J inch or more wide, contracted 

 between the seeds, dorsally undulating, becoming black out- 

 side ; pithy cross walls imperfect or absent ; funicle thick, very 

 short, strophiole none ; seeds few, roundish to quadrangular, 

 J to J inch, slightly compressed ; hilum roundish oval, about 

 1 line long ; testa thinly crustaceous, smooth, bright scarlet ; 

 albumen, none ; embryo pale yellowish, horny when dry ; 

 radicle very short, next to the hilum." 



