INDEX. 



591) 



Edwards, Mr., plants collected by him 



^ in Melville Island, 185, 19i 



Elireiiber<i^, C. G., his account of the 



structure of I lie pollen masses in 



Ascle|)iadeie, 521, 522 )iofe ; his 



further observations on the sexual 



ori:ans of, 542-3 



Eheamieffi, iiow distinguished from 



Proteacesc, 82 

 Elaeis, monfrcious and not direcious, 

 140; situation of the foramina in 

 its putamen, 1 10 ; its remarkable 

 geoo^raphical distribution,]! 11 ; un- 

 doubtedly indigenous to the whole 

 of the West Coast of Africa, 161 

 Embryo, on the plurality and de- 

 velopment of, in the seeds of Coni- 

 ferse, 5G5 — 575 

 Epacrideee, observations on the order 

 and on its diatribution in Terra 

 Australis, 38 ; hardly exists in the 

 interior, 339 

 Ephedra has a naked ovulum, 453; 



structure of the nucleus in, 455 

 Epistephium, M. Achille Richard's ideas 

 of the structure of an Orchideous 

 flower derived from, 501, 501 

 Eremophila, observations on the genus 

 and its species, 332-3; character- 

 istic of the vegetation of the interior 

 of N. Holland, 330 

 Ervthrophleum, observations on the 



genus, 111, 153, 290. 291 

 Erythrospermum, its atfinities, 121 

 Eucalyptus, reason why the species 

 forms one of the most striking 

 features in the vegetation of Terra 

 Australis, 18, 62, 317; origin of 

 the operculum, 75 ; species found 

 by Mr. Eraser at Swan River, 311 ; 

 species found in the interior of 

 New Holland, 339 

 Eudesmia, its relation to Eucalyptus, 



75 



Eugenia, species of, in which the in- 

 tegument of the seed is absorbed 

 before its separation from the 

 parent plant, 364 

 Euonymus, resupination of its ovula, 



448-9 

 Euphorbia, the author's view of the 

 structure of the genus, 28 ; a fru- 

 tescent species with cylindrical i 

 stem and branches, observed in the 

 vicinitv of the Congo, 12S 



Euphorbiaccffi, observations on the 

 order, and on its dii>tribution in 

 Terra Australis, 2S ; on the S|)ccies 

 foimd in the vicinity of the Congo, 

 127 ; the double sligmala of many 

 species of, 559 



Eupomatia, how shown to belong to 

 Anonaceae, 74 



Farsetia, character of the genus and 

 observations on its structure, espe- 

 cially as regards its dissej)iment, 



Fecundation, observations on the 

 organs and mode of, in Orchidese 

 and Asclepiadeae, 487—543; sup- 

 plementary observations on 515— 

 551 ; various oj)inioiis on the sub- 

 ject, in Orchidejf, 490-8; in Ascle- 

 piadejc, 516—521; as held in 

 Orchideai by llaller, A(hinson, 

 490, Curtis, C. K. Sprengel, Waeh- 

 ter, Schkuhr, Swartz, 491 ; Salis- 

 bury, L. C. Treviranus, Ad. Brong- 

 niart, Linnaeus, Schmidel, 402 ; 

 Koelreuter, Jonathan Stokes, 

 Batsch, L. C. Richard, -193; du 

 Petit Thouars, 494 ; Link, Lindlev, 

 495 ; Francis Bauer, 496- S ; and In 

 Asclcpiadea? by Adanson, Gieic-lien, 

 516, 517; C. K. Sprei.gcl, 513; 

 Francis Bauer, 519 ; Elliott, Mac- 

 bride, Link, L.C. Treviranus, 520; 

 Elirenbcrg, 521 

 FUices, observations on the order, and 

 on its distribution in Terra Austra- 

 lis, 59 ; on the venation of, and the 

 relation of the involucra to veins in 

 various subdivisions of the genus 

 Asplenium, 60; further observations 

 on the order, on its proportions, and 

 geographical distribution, and on 

 the species found in the vicinity of 

 the Congo, 148 

 Fisher, ^Ir., plants collected by him 



in Melville Island. 1S5 

 Flagellaria, observations on the genus, 



52 

 Flinders, Matthew, his survey of the 



coasts of Terra Australis, 3* 

 Flindersia, in what rcsj)ects it differs 



from Cedreleje, 72 

 Flower, the regular alternaljon of the 

 divisions of the proximate organs, 



