Baron F. von Mueller on Dyso^n/lon Schijj'neri. 369 



been frequent ami heavy. Nevertheless the genial tem- 

 perature which prevailed during the first three weeks 

 prolonged the season of autumn flowering herbaceous 

 plants. The storms of wind and heavy rains have cleared 

 the deciduous trees of their leaves somewhat prematurely. 

 The young wood of most trees is filled with watery sap, 

 denoting imperfect maturation. 



November. 



The thermometer has been at or below 32" on seventeen 

 mornings during the month. Considering the wet weather 

 whichi prevailed during the first week of the month, the 

 day temperature ruled higli, the mean for the first ten 

 days being 49°. Since then the fall has been gradual, the 

 lowest being 33° on the 12th. Eain fell less or more on 

 13 days. 



Out-door vegetation is entirely dormant. 



On Dysoxylon Schiffneri (Section Clcisocahjx), a new Tree 

 from East Australia. By Baron Feed, vox Mueller, 

 Ph.D., M.D., F.R.S., K.C.M.G.; 



(Read 9tli Februrary 1882.) 



Leaves and their stalks almost glabrous ; leaflets verging 

 from an oval to a somewhat lanceolar form, opposite or 

 nearly so, thin-chartaceous in texture ; racemous bunches 

 of flowers arising from the stem, short ; stalklets nearly or 

 fully as long as the flowers, silky ; calyx large, before 

 expansion of the corolla almost egg-shaped, then perfectly 

 entire and closed, without any ruptures or sutural lines, 

 subsequently torn to about the middle into two undivided 

 or once more slightly cleft lobes ; petals four, free, elongated- 

 oblong, about one-third longer than the calyx, and likewise 

 outside silky ; staminal column broadly tubular, seven or 

 oftener eight- toothed, the teeth semilanceolar, about three 

 times shorter than the tube ; anthers seven or oftener eight, 

 sessile between the teeth at the summit of the tube, their 

 connective often minutely pointed ; disk cup-shaped, free, 

 slightly crenulated, as well as the staminal tube glabrous ; 

 style filiform, its lower portion and the ovary densely 



