32 Linncean Society. 



Stigma subcapitellatuin. Capmla 5- (vel abortu 1-3-) cocca ; cocci basi 

 subcohsEi-cntes, sepalis persisteiitibus pliiries longiores, subquadrati, 

 paulo coinpressi, basi rotundati, apice abriipte truncati et angulo ex- 

 teriio breve cornuti, coriacei vel subb'giiosi, dorso carinati, transversim 

 rugosi, extus glabriusciili, intiis sulcati, glabri, endocarpio baud sece- 

 dente. Seinina ....i — Frutex Tasmaniciis, ramosissitmis ; fobis oppo- 

 sitis, exstipnlaiix, pcilolufis, 3-fo/iatis, folio/is coriaceis, lanceolatis, ser- 

 rafis, supra fubprculafi.i ; peduiiculis tcrviinalibus, trichotome cijmusis, 

 midl'ijioris \ floiibus ulbis. 



ACRADENIA FitANKLINI*:, Kipp. 



Zieria Frankliniie, MiUigan, MSS. 



Hub. ad iiiargines syli-e dei)s;B pvoj)2 Portiim " Macquarie" dictum Insulae 



" Van Diemeii," ubi floribus expaiisis legit Dom. Jos. MiUigan mense 



Decembri 1816, ct iteiiiin Martii 1S47. 



The close resemblance to Zieria in habit had originally suggested 

 to Mr. Kippist the specific name of " Zierioides," but Mr. Brown 

 having kindly communicated to him a specimen gathered bv Mr. 

 Milligan on the Franklin River in April 1842, with a ticket attached, 

 from which it ajjpears that Mr. Milligan had proposed to name the 

 plant " Zieria Franklinia;" (after Lady Franklin), he has adopted 

 with much pleasure that specific name. On the same ticket M". 

 Milligan describes the plant as handsome and fragrant ; but this, as 

 he at that time saw no flowers, Mr. Kip^.-st presumes can only be 

 intended to apply to the leaves, which, as in the majority of the 

 DiosmecB, are copiously furnished with jiellucid dots, reservoirs of 

 essential oil, and exhaling probably the peculiar odour which charac- 

 terizes the family. 



The plant having recently flowered at Kew, he was enabled by 

 the kindness of Sir Wm. Hooker to examine the flowers in a living 

 state, but he regrets to hear that it is not likely at present to ripen 

 its fruit at Kew, where Mr. Smith states that it was first introduced 

 in 1845 in a case sent by Dr. M'William from Norfolk Island; a 

 locality, however, in which it is scarcely possible that it should be 

 indigenous. 



'I'he same collection from which the Acradeniu was obtained, in- 

 cluded a number of highly interesting plants, quite new to the 

 Society's herbarium. Among the most striking were several alpine 

 Umhelliferce, principally from Mt. Sorrel, of very singular habit, 

 one or two of which have been recently figured by Sir Wm. Hooker 

 in his ' Icones,' from specimens forwarded by Air. Milligan or his 

 fellow-labourer Mr. Gunn : others appear to be still undescribed. 

 Dr. Meisner found among them a few new Proteacea, and a most 

 remarkable dichotomous Pimelea, with densely silky imbricated 

 leaves, which he proposes to call after its discoverer. It contained, 

 moreover, a number of fine Epacridea ; among them a splendid 

 species of Dracophyllum (Z). Milliguni, Hook.), remarkable as being 

 the first instance of the occurrence of that genus in Van Diemen's 

 Land, and a new genus of Hccmadoracea;, with large handsome 

 flowers and equitant leaves, recently described by Sir Wm. Hooker 

 under the name of Hewardia tasmanica. 



