20 Neue Litteratur. 



Forbes, F. B. and Hemsley, W. ß., Index florae Sinensis. Part. I. (Journal 



of the Linnean Society London. Botany. 1886. No. 150.) 

 Forniänek, Ed., Beitrag zur Flora der Karpathen und des Hochgesenkes. 



(Oesterreichische Botanische Zeitschrift. XXXVI. 1886. No. 6. p. 184.) 

 Fräser, J., Orchis Morio with two columns. (Journal of Botany. XXIV. 1886. 



No. 282. p. 183.) 

 Hackel, E., Scribneria, genus novum. (Botanical Gazette. 1886. May.) 

 Keller, J. B., Mährische Rosen. (Oesterreichische Botanische Zeitschrift. 



XXXVI. 1886. No. 6. p. 195.) 



Mueller, Ferd. Barou v., Notes on theSpecies of Xylomelura. (From Wing's 



Southern Science Record. Vol. II. New Ser. March, 1886.) 



[Xylomelum salicinum. 

 (A. Cunn. in R. Br. Proteac. nov. 31.j 

 jBranchlets slender, glabrous or slightly downy; leaves on rather 

 short stalks, comparatively small, narrow-hxnceolar, occaaionally some 

 broad-lanceolar, all entire or rarely with a few indentations near the 

 suinmit, pi'orainently penni-nerved and conspicuously net-veined; spikes 

 slender and rather .short, almost sessile; flowers small; bracts aud 

 petals outside thinly tonientose; connective of anthers conspicuously 

 protruding; style downy towards the base, glabrous towards the summit; 

 Stigma clavate-oval ; hypogynous scalef^ free, truncated ; fruit oblique- 

 ovate, very turgid, only slightly attenuated towards the blunt sumiuit, 

 thinly velvet-downy outside, bursting only for a short distance on the 

 posterior side ; pericarp very thick : seeds not fully half as broad as 

 the pericarp, ovate-rhomboid, somewhat broader than long; termina- 

 ting membrane obliquely oblong-lanceolar , pale-brown , nearly three 

 tinies as long as the nucleus, the raphe somewhat removed from the 

 anterior margin of the membrane. 



On Dogwood-Creek, Leichhardt and B u n c e ; on Darling-Downs. 

 Mrs. Ford and Mr. Lau; on the Warrego, Mrs. Spencer. 



Leaves 2-4 inches long, mostly ^l2-^J4 inch broad. Spikes generally 

 11/2-21/2 inches long. Petals hardly i/^ i^ch long. Ripe fruit measuring 

 nearly 21/2 inches in length and II/2 inches in breadth. 



This plant became confused in the Flora Australiensis (V. 408-409) 

 with a species, to which I had given the name X. Scottianum, of which 

 descriptive notes appeared in the Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. IV, 107 ; v. 

 174 and 215, and which is known only from Endeavour -River and 

 Rockingham-Bay. That difters from the extra-tropic inland-plant, now 

 specifically defined, in often somewhat larger leaves with less promi- 

 nent and less regularly pinnate primaiy nerves and with less promi- 

 nent veins , in distinctly pedunculate spikes , in very much narrower 

 almost glabrescent strongly compressed fruits, which are indeed three 

 or four times as long as they are broad, and upwards much attenuated 

 gradually into the recurved apex , in the comparatively thin pericarp 

 (oi' much less thickness than in any other congener), in the seeds as 

 well as their appendages being thus nearly as broad as the valves, in 

 the deltoid-ovate form of the nucleus (therefoi'e longer than broad) 

 with a terminating membrane only about twice as long, of livid colo- 

 ration, more tender in texture, more narrowed upwards and with the 

 raphe contiguous to the anterior margin. 



Like so many plants , either of the eastern or of the western lall 

 of the country, the two Xylomelum-species, here alluded to, are clearlj' 

 distinct; X. salicinum was pi-obably not found by Cunnigham near 

 Moreton-Bay, but Inland towards that hirge oceanic sinus. Nevertheless 

 it may only be a x-educed form of X. pyriforme , such as R. Brown 

 considers it to be , and some specimens , sent by Mr. Th. W a t s n 

 from the vicinity of the Dawson-River , seem to mediate the transit. 

 In its normal state however X. pyriforme is larger in all its part, the 

 leaves are frequently forming large serratures, the tomentose vestiture 

 of the flowers is more dense, the fruit more perceptibly attenuated in 

 its Upper portion, the nucleus proportionately longer and the termi- 



