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MISCELLANEA. 



Some I^ew South ArsTEALTA.x Plaj^ts from Kaxqaeoo^ 

 Island. Abstract from the piiblislied descriptions. 



Sydrocotyle comocarpa, F. v. M.; Yictorian Xaturalist, Jan., 

 1887. Karatta ; on moist flats along fhe Stimsailboom 

 Eiyer, Xoy., 1886, Tepper. A small, few-flowered plant, 

 with leaves 3-5 lobed, and the summit of the roundish 

 fruit surrounded by a series of flattened bristly hairs. 



Lhotzhya Smeaioniana, F. v. M. ; Austr. Jour, of Pharmacy, 

 Jan., 1887. Pive miles X.W. of Karatta; wet localities 

 in dense scrubs. ISTov., 1886, Tepper. A small, very 

 densely branched shrub, with small,^ much crowded, threes- 

 sided leaves, and allied to L. genetylloides, but smaller in 

 all its parts, the tubes of the calyces, among other charac- 

 ters, constricted at the summit, and the lobes very mucb 

 smaller. 



Candollea ( Stylidium) Tepperiana, P. v, M. ; Chem. and Drugg. 

 of Aust., Jan. 1st, 1887; Mount Taylor, Nov., 1886,. 

 Tepper. A small tufted plant, witb the linear leaves 

 small, solitary, collected in two tufts, viz., one radical and 

 one on each trunk, and the pink flowers on slender, stiff: 

 pedicels. It approaches nearest to C. spinulosa, which, 

 however, has its larger leaves not all collected into tufts, 

 the corolla longer and the upper calys lobes not highly 

 connate. 



I^ota?noyeton Teppe^H, 'Bennett; Journ. of Botany, 1887. Cygnet 

 and Stunsailboom Pivers, lagoons, &c., Peb., 1886., Tepper ; 

 interior of Queensland, Bailey (?). An aquatic plant 

 much resembling P. natans, L. The lower, submerged 

 leaves narrow, lanceolate, about four inches long by one- 

 half inch wide, brownish; the floating leaves pale green, 

 from oval with cordate bases to ovate witb tapering bases, 

 about three inches long by one and a quarter wide, 21-23 

 veined, coriaceous. Petals long, gradually dilated up- 

 wards ; stipules soon decaying. Peduncles two to three 

 inches long, thickening uj^wards ; spikes three-quarters to 

 one inch long ; dense in fruit, the latter nearly straight on 

 the inner face, rounded, three-angled on the outer, semi- 

 obovate, with a short beak formino^ a continuation of the- 



