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are oblique-ovate or demidiate-roundish, about J-inch long, 

 rather turgid, exteriorly grey-brown and nearly smooth. 

 This plant seems to bear flowers already, when only 6in. 

 high, and never to exceed 4ft. in height, unless perhaps in 

 cultivation. 



Sti/phelia MUiigani — 



Under this appellation occurs the Pentachondra verticillata 

 in the second systematic Census of Australian Plants p. 178, 

 in anticipation of the fruit proving that of a Styphelia 

 (or Leucopogon), a surmise fully borne out by specimens 

 sent by Mr. Moore from the highlands of Mount Read and 

 Mount Tyndall, where also a small form of Acacia mucronata 

 is growing at elevations between 3,600ft. and 3,900ft. The 

 fruit, as now seen, is only of about |-inch measurement, 

 nearly globular ; its pericarp is very thin and outside white ; 

 the putamen is five-celled. Possibly the fruit obtained may 

 be over-aged. Until now the plant was only known from 

 Dr. Miiligan's collection. It is from 6in. to 18in. high, but 

 as it is many-branched from the root, Mr. Moore saw 

 individual plants covering a breadth of 2ft. When out of 

 flower this plant calls to mind, as regards its aspect, some 

 Pultenseas. 



It may here not be inappropriate to remark that since Sir 

 Joseph "Hooker finished, in 1860, his superb work on Tas- 

 manian plants, the following were by me brought under notice 

 as additional among vasculares (they coming within the scope 

 of my own researches) as the Tasmanian flora could not be 

 kept apart in treating that of Continental Australia, some 

 few only emanating from other collections : — 



Papaver aculeatum, Thunberg. 



Cakile maritima, Scopoli. 



Pittosporum undulatum, Andrews. 



Comesperma defoliatum, F. v. M. 



Elaeocarpus reticulatus, Smith. 



Pseudanthus ovalifolius, F. v. M. 



Euphorbia Drummondi, Boissier. 



Casuarina bicuspid ata, Bentham. 



Zieria cytisoides, Smith. 



Zieria veronicea, F. v. M. 



Eriostemon Oldfieldi, F. v. M. 



Atriplex paludosum, B>. Brown. 



Polygonum lapathifolium, Linne. 



Acacia penninervis, Sieber. 



Acsena montana, J. Hooker. (Recorded as a variety 

 in the Fl. Tasm.) 



Pimelea Milligani, Meissner. 



Pimelea stricta, Meissner. 



Pimelea axiflora, F. v. M. 



