256 ON FAKABAYA, A NEW AUSTRALIAN GENUS. 
Mentha rubra folio et floie nigr^e Menthse, Lobel, Cut. Bobart, Hist. 
t. 6. n. 11." 
51. Our M. piihescens Mrcina^ exactly agreeing with one of the 
specimens called aquatica in the Liun^an herbarium, for which Buddie 
gives the synonyms of Kay's No. 4. 
52. No specimen. In manuscriptj " M. aquatica folio oblongo 
viridi glabro saporis fervidissimi;" and under 51 Emldle writes, ^^ This 
and the following are the same." The locality here is, " By the New 
River sides, near New^ington." 
53. M, piperita officinalis, labelled by Buddie as Eay's No. 7. 
. 54. Two specimens labelled as Kay's No. 1, one Dale*s plant, men- - 
tioned by Kay, which is if. crispata^ the other from D. Bobart, which is 
normal viridis. 
56. A broad nearly naked-leaved form of J/, viridis, with very hairy 
calyi-teeth, so that tlie unopened spike looks quite shagc^y, labelled as 
Eay's No. 2, " ab ipsissimo Dale, qui non tantum Menthas varias col- 
legit sed accurantius distinxit." 
57. M, sylved7'is nemorosa^ Doody's plant mentioned in the note to 
Eay's No. 5. 
58. M, syhestris 7iemorosa. Leaves rather blunter and less sharply 
toothed than in the last, labelled as Eay's No. 5, and Buddie writes, 
*' According to my notion of them, these two last are near akin." 
59. M. rotundifoUay labelled as Kay's No. 6. 
Besides these there are specimens of our M. crispa, labelled " Mentha 
crispa, Danica sive Germanicaj speciosa, Parkinson ; Cut. Bobart. Hist. 
t. 6, n. 11,'' and of normal M. viridis, labelled " M. Eomana an- 
gustifolia sive cardiaca, Parkinson, 31." 
Sowerbt/j near Thirsk^ May 9, 1865. 
Explanation of Plate XXXIV., representing Mentha cardiaca^ Gerarde. 
Fig. Ij an entire flower; 2, calyx • — hoik magnified. 
ON FARABAYA, A NEW AUSTEALIAN GENUS. 
By Bertuold Seemann, Ph.I)., P.L.S. 
. In the thirty-first number of his * Fragmenta Phytographise Austra- 
lise,' Dr. F. Mutller defines a new genus, which, in honour of the illustri- 
