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Height of tree to about 20 feet. Leaves 1^2 to 2 x /> inches long, 

 y 2 to Y\ inches broad, much shaped like those of Decaspermum 

 panicidatum. Flowers appearing racemously arranged when 

 some are solitary on the ultimate peduncles. Calyx during 

 anthesis hardly ^ inch long, dull-brownish outside. Petals and 

 anthers whitish. Ovules rather few. Ripe fruit unknown. 



This hitherto unrecorded plant exhibits many of the character- 

 istics of E. spicata, but its corolla is never syzygoid, although this 

 affords neither an absolute mark of distinction for that species ; 

 the leaves are generally smaller, the pedicels seem never to 

 become conspicuously developed, the ultimate peduncles are 

 shorter, the flowers less numerous in the panicle and thus less 

 umbellular-fasciculed but partly somewhat spicate, and the fruit, 

 when known, may show further differences. 



Hypsophila oppositifolia. 



Leaves on rather long petioles, mostly opposite and ovate- 

 lanceolar, bluntly acuminated ; panicles many-flowered, cymous, 

 terminal and axillary ; sepals connate towards the base ; petals 

 ovate, outside beset with short appressed hairlets ; filaments 

 much incurved, considerably longer than the anthers, stoutish, 

 dark-purplish, hispidulous ; style very short ; stigma much 

 broader, depressed ; disc as well as ovulary glabrous. 



On Mount Bartle-Frere ; Stephen Johnson. 



Leaves i*4 to 3 inches long, therefore smaller than those of 

 H. Halleyana, from which the diagnostics above given readily 

 distinguish this congener. Should nevertheless it pass by middle 

 forms into the plant first described within this genus, then the 

 additional notes, now offered, will further build out the specific 

 definition. Fruit of the new form has not been found yet. 



Beilschmiedia lachnostemonea. 



Leaves mostly ovate- or elliptic-lanceolar, protracted into a short 

 blunt acumen, glabrous, closely reticular-venulated, on both sides 

 shining ; panicle beset with minute appressed hairlets ; sepals and 

 petals almost of equal length, nearly oval, connate towards their 

 bases ; the six stamens of first rank somewhat shorter than the 

 sepals and petals, the three of second rank still shorter, the fila- 

 ments all brownish-lanuginous ; staminoides three, very short; pistil 

 in staminate flowers narrow-conic, glabrous, with a minute stigma. 



Russell's-River ; W. Sayer. 



The plant in its characteristics fits closely B. Eoxburgkiana, of 

 which however even for India the specific limits remain yet un- 

 settled, it being so difficult to obtain from jungle-trees the flowers 

 and ripe fruits simultaneously at the same localities. The plant, 

 now described as new at all events for Australia, seems to differ 

 from the typic B. lioxbtcrghiana, which is neither yet recorded 

 from the Sunda-Islands, in somewhat smaller leaves, shorter 

 petioles, more elongated panicles, more lanuginous filaments and 



