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Stigma subcapitellatiim. Capsula 5- (vel aboitu 1-3-) cocca ; cocci basi 

 subcohaerentes, sepalis persisteiitibus ))lui-ies longiores, subquadrati, 

 paiilo compressi, basi rotundati, apice abrupte tnincati et aiigulo ex- 

 tei'iio breve cornuti, coriacei vel snblignosi, dorso carinati, transversim 

 rugosi, extiis glabriiisculi, intiis sulcati, glabri, endorarpio baud sece- 

 dente. Semina ....i — Fnitex Tasmaniciis, ramosiss'nntis ; foliis oppo- 

 silis, exstiptdalh, j)etiolatis, 3-fo/ialis, foUolis coriacei/:, lanceulatis, ser- 

 ratis, supra tiibo-culatis ; podiinculis terminalibus, trirhotoml cijmosis, 

 mullijlori.i ; floribus albis. 



ACRADENIA FkANKLINI«, Ktfp. 



Zieria Frankliniw, Millic/an, jMSS. 



Hab. ad margines sylvre daoste props Portiini "Macqnarie" dictum Insulae 



" Van Diemeii," ubi floribus expaiisis legit Doni. Jos. MilUgan mense 



Decembri 1816, et iteriim Martii 1817. 



The close resemblance to Zieria in habit had originally suggested 

 to Mr. Kippist tlie sjjecific name of " Zierioides," but Mr. Brown 

 having kindly communicated to him a specimen gathered by Mr. 

 Milligan on the Franklin River in April 1842, with a ticket attached, 

 from which it appears that Mr. Milligan had proposed to name the 

 ■p\a.nt " Zieria Frcinklinia" (after Lady Franklin), he has adopted 

 with much pleasure that specific name. On tlie same ticket M\ 

 Milligan describes the plant as handsome and fragrant ; but this, as 

 he at that time saw no flowers, Mr. Kip^'st presumes can only be 

 intended to apply to the leaves, wliich, as in the majority of the 

 Diosmece, are copiously furnished with pellucid dots, reservoirs of 

 essential oil, and exhaling probably the peculiar odour which charac- 

 terizes the family. 



The plant having recently flowered at Kew, he was enabled by 

 the kindness of Sir Wm. Hooker to examine the flowers in a living 

 state, but he regrets to hear that it is not likely at jiresent to ripen 

 its fruit at Kew, where Mr. Smith states that it was first introduced 

 in 1845 in a case sent by Dr. M'William from Norfolk Island; a 

 locality, however, in which it :s scarcely possible that it should be 

 indigenous. 



The same collection from which the Acradenia was obtained, in- 

 cluded a number of highly interesting plants, quite new to the 

 Society's herbarium. Among the most striking were several alpine 

 Umhelli/erce, principally from Mt. Sorrel, of very singular habit, 

 one or two of which have been recently figured by Sir Wm. Hooker 

 in his ' Icones,' from specimens forwarded by Mr. Milligan or his 

 fellow-labourer Mr. Gunn : others appear to be still undescribed. 

 Dr. Meisner found among them a few new Proteacea, and a most 

 remarkable dichotomous Pimelea, with densely silky imbricated 

 leaves, which he proposes to call after its discoverer. It contained, 

 moreover, a -.number of fine Epacridece ; among them a splendid 

 species of Dracophi/llum {D. Milligani, Hook.), remarkable as being 

 the first instance of the occurrence of that genus in Van Diemen's 

 Land, and a new genus of Hamadoracea , with large handsome 

 flowers and equitant leaves, recently described by Sir Wm. Hooker 

 under the name of Hewardia tasmanica. 



