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This plant seems specifically distinct from B. dipterocarpa 

 in the characteristics of its fruit, as the hollow base of the 

 aged calyx is not so wide, as the appendages are neither renate 

 nor half-ascending, stronger stipitated and gradually narrowed 

 at their lower portion ; one of the two appendages is usually 

 not so well developed as the other. The peculiarities of this 

 new form, as here pointed out, do not depend on an imperfect 

 ripening of the fruit, as the seeds may be seen well matured. 



In Sir Joseph Hooker's " Icones Plantarum," xi. 62, pi. 1,078, 

 fruits of both species are illustrated, figure 5 representing that 

 of B. acroptera and figure 6 that of B. dipterocarpa. Both 

 plants occur in the vicinity of Mount Parry, though the latter 

 is somewhat local ; but what we have from the Finke Eiver and 

 from Eyre Creek is solely B. dipterocarpa. An approach is 

 offered by B. acroptera to the section Osteocarpum of Bassia. 



Loranthus Murray!. 



Glabrous ; leaves alternate, semiterete, slender, veinless, not 

 exceeding two inches in length, somewhat attenuated at the 

 base ; flowers mostly solitary, sometimes in pairs, on flattened, 

 shortly winged pedicels of about half an inch long, without a 

 common peduncle; bract unequally bilobed, conspicuous, 

 decurrent on the pedicel ; calyx-tube prominent, glaucous, its 

 border truncate and obscurely toothed ; petals usually six, 

 about ten lines long, united to about the two-thirds of their 

 length into a slightly dilated tube ; corolla-tube pale yellow ; 

 segments linear-lanceolate, yellow below, pale rose above; 

 stigma capitate ; style and filaments brown, anthers adnate, 

 broadly linear; unripe fruit globular, glaucous. 



Parasitic on Acacia aneura, on sandy ground at Idyaka, near 

 Termination Hill. M. Murray and R. Tate. 



This species was first brought to notice by Malcolm Murray, 

 Esq., whose kind hospitality and active promotion of the field 

 labours of one of us have been the means of introducing to 

 botanical science several new species ; it is, therefore, with 

 very great pleasure that we dedicate to him this new 

 Loranthus. 



L. Murrayi is closely related to L. linearifolius differing, 

 however, in several minor particulars, and is separable from it 

 and from its congeners by the peculiarity of the pedicel. 



COEEIGENDUM. 



Vol. v., pp. 80 and 87, for Trymalium Wayce read Wayii. 



