42 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN PLANTS, WITH 

 OCCASIONAL OTHER ANNOTATIONS ; 



By Baron von Mueller, K.C.MG, M. & Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S. 



(Continued.) 

 Endiandra exostemonea. 



Branchlets and petioles thinly brown-tomentose ; leaves ot 

 chartaceous substance, mostly ovate-lanceolar, somewhat 

 acuminate, shining on both sides, slightly paler green beneath 

 and there the costulation prominent and tomentellous, the 

 venulation conspicuous and closely reticular, the leaves except 

 their keel and costules almost glabrous; panicles axillary and 

 terminal, usually much shorter than the leaves, pedicels very 

 thin and as particularly also the peduncles beset with brown 

 appressed hairlets; flowers very small, their calyx nearly 

 glabrous, its lobes semi-ovate, somewhat longer than the petals; 

 stamens glabrous, with two lanceolar appendages at the base, 

 their upper portion exserted; style rather conspicuous, as well 

 as the ovulary glabrous; fruit large, globular. 



At the Daintree-River; Theod. Pentzke. 



Leaves on rather short petioles, to 5 inches long, to 1^ 

 inches broad. Flowers in the panicle often multitudinous. 

 Calyx and petals brownish, paler towards the margin. Stigma 

 minute. Fruit not yet obtained. The aspect of this species 

 is different to that of any other congener, the extension of the 

 stamens beyond the calyx being also unusual. The plant 

 will have its place in the phytographic system near E. virens, 

 from which it recedes in its far more copious vestiture of the 

 branchlets, in broader leaves with a somewhat different 

 venulation, in thinner pedicels, in calyces of less turgidity and 

 in emerging stamens; most probably the fruit will turn out to 

 be also not identical. 



POLYOSMA REDUCTA. 



Branchlets and petioles bearing minute appressed hairlets ; 

 leaves rather small, chartaceous, mostly lanceolar, gradually 

 acuminated, devoid of denticulation and lustre, above almost 

 glabrous, beneath paler and subtle appressed-puberulous, their 

 venulation much concealed ; racemes terminal and oftener 

 axillary ; pedicels very thin ; bract and bracteoles minute, at the 

 upper end of the pedicel ; denticles of the calyx very short ; fruit 

 comparatively small, ovate-globular, slightly oblique, destitute of 

 longitudinal lineations, its summit emerging from the calyx and 

 somewhat pyramidal ; seeds one or two. 



