Bibliographical Notices. 57 
In like manner those precursors of civilization (to go no further 
back), Flinders, Oxley, Grey, Mitchell, Leichardt and Sturt, find in 
the desert not a few favoured spots ; Australia has its Kremocharis 
(what a happy name!),.its flights of parrakeets, its little gorgeous 
Maluri, its bronze-winged and crested pigeons, their wings 
“sprinkled with liquid gold,” its rock kangaroos, its pretty Tarsipes 
Spensere, its even more curious Myrmecobius, and insects as bright 
as its Buprestide, or as dull and curious as its species of Heleus. 
In the book before us, Capt. Sturt’s narrative is made interesting by 
the numerous descriptions of the habits of the animals he and his 
party met with; while in the appendix, contributed by Mr. Gould and 
Dr. Robert Brown, are curious, and, owing to the novelty of the 
plants, valuable additions to our knowledge of Australian natural 
history. 
. It is seldom now that we or any one else have to refer to recent 
works of Dr. Brown—the most distinguished botanist of this or any 
other country,—and it is pleasing to see him again in the field where 
so many of his early discovered flowers are blooming. The author of 
the ‘ Prodromus Florz Nove Holiandiz’ has added a botanical ap- 
pendix to his friend Capt. Sturt’s book—an appendix which of itself 
will make the book valuable to the scientific man. 
Capt. Sturt’s collection consisted of about 100 species, with many 
other plants, chiefly trees, not easily determinable, and alluded to in 
hisinteresting narrative. ‘The Captain and his companion Mr. Browne 
(the name was a good one for Australian botany ), “‘ seem,” as Dr. 
Robert Brown informs us in his appendix, ‘‘ to have collected chiefly 
those plants that appeared to them new or striking,” and of such the 
collection contains a considerable proportion. 
The new genera and species recorded are— 
Biennopia, a genus of Crucifere allied to Matthiola, but differing 
in having incumbent cotyledons, and in the mucous covering of 
the seeds ; the species is Blennodia canescens. 
Sturtia, a genus of Malvacee nearly related to Gossypium and 
Senra; the species Sturtia Gossypioides was found by the enterpri- 
sing man with whose name it is associated, in the beds of the 
creeks on the Barrier Range. 
Tribulus hystrix and T. occidentalis from the W. coast of Australia, 
the latter found during the voyage of the Beagle. 
TriBuLoris, a new genus allied to Tribulus, and containing three 
species here shortly characterized: T. Solandri, found by Banks 
and Solander in 1770 near Endeavour River; 7. angustifolia on 
the shore at the top of the Gulf of Carpentaria, where it was disco- 
vered by Mr. Brown on Flinders’s expedition in 1802 and 1803 ; 
and 7. pentandra. 
Crotalaria Sturtii and C. Cunninghami. 
Clianthus Dampieri ; the synonyma are given and remarks, some from 
Cunningham’s MS. Journal. 
CLIDANTHERA, n. g.; perhaps near Psoralea, but differing in the 
unusual dehiscence of the anthers. The species is named Clidan- 
thera Psoralioides. 
