10 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



Leaves to 3 inches long and to 1^ broad, somewhat resembling 

 those of ScoLopia Brownii. Pedicels attaining a length of one 

 inch. Flowers hardly above ^6-inch long. Fruit measuring 

 about y'i -inch. Seed of nearly ^(-inch measurement, its endo- 

 pleura brown and smooth. Already the carpic characters are 

 sufficient to distinguish this species from all others. The 

 extreme acridity of the sap, if adscribed rightly to the wood of 

 this particular tree, seems unique in the genus if not the whole 

 myrtaceous order. 



Myrtus lasioclada in a remarkable variety (or perhaps closely 

 allied but distinct species) to which the name decaspermoides has 

 been given, shows leaves shaped like those of Decaspermum 

 panicidatum and Myrtus Beckleri, with inconspicuous venulation, 

 recurved pedicels, five-lobed calyces and very abbreviated stamens 

 with anthers, perhaps through monstrosity, pointed by the 

 excurrent connective. The doubts about this plant can best be 

 unravelled in its native locality, successive altitudes of occurrence 

 more particularly affecting the characteristics of highland-plants. 



Decaspermum panicidatum occurs on the Logan-River (Scorte- 

 chini), and on the Bellinger-River (W. Macdonald). 



Rhodamnia Blairiana has with Argophyllum nitidum been 

 brought from Mt. Bartle-Frere by Mr. Stephen Johnson. Well 

 formed seeds very angular ; testule bony-hard. 



Rhodomyrtus trineura extends to the sources of the Burdekin- 

 River and also to Mt. Bartle-Frere. Leaves to 5 inches long, 

 2 inches broad. Petals pink. 



Eugenia minutipZora bears some affinity to E. confertijtora. 



Eugenia grandis we have also from Endeavour-River, where it 

 was found by Mr. Persieh. 



Eugenia suborbicularis is now also known from the Mitchell- 

 River (E. Palmer). Bark smoothish, brown. Fruit copiously 

 produced, attaining sometimes the size of a middling apple ; 

 its pericarp pleasantly acid, but often not without some acridity, 

 outside red. (Daemel.) 



Eugenia Luehmanni. 



Glabrous throughout ; leaves short-stalked, small, almost 

 lanceolar but gradually much protracted into a bluntish acumen, 

 the venules much concealed ; panicles short, brachiate, their 

 main divisions somewhat thyrsoid ; pedicels almost undeveloped ; 

 flowers very small, rather crowded, three or two or only one on 

 the short ultimate peduncles ; calyx-tube hemi-ellipsoid, without 

 any ^ conspicuous angulation, densely glandular-dotted; lobes 

 semiorbicular, much shorter than the tube ; petals of about 

 double the length of the calyx-lobes, disconnected, very much 

 surpassed by the stamens and style ; anthers almost ovate ; 

 stigma minute ; ovulary deeply sunk, two-celled. 



On Mount Bartle-Frere, together with a Styphelia of the section 

 Acrotriche ; Stephen Johnson. 



