montmtacea.j flora of Tasmania. 1 1 
bark. This is especially tin ease with the Chilian Drinn/s Wmteri, whirl, yields the Winter'* hark of our l'harma- 
copoeia,— a medicine which might probably he nfefy replaced by the bark of Tasmania. 
1. Tasmaxinia aromatica (Br. 1. c, Prodr. i. 78; Deless. lr. i. t. Si).— Winterana 1 
Diet, viii. 799. [Gunn, 777.) 
Hab. Abundant in many parts of the Island, descending to the level of the sea at Circular Head and 
Georgetown, and ascending to iOOO feet on the mountains; it prefers a rich soil, Brown, etc. " Popper- 
tree," Col.— (Fl. Oct. Nov.) (v. v.) 
A small bush or tree, from 3 inches high on the mountains to ]2 feet in more favourabl. - 
gregarious, closely resembling Telopia truneata in appearance (Gunn). —Trunk sometimes \i inches in diamu.r 
branches often three together, or obscurely whorled. Bark red in young branches. Unm J-:j inches bog, rerj 
coriaceous, shortly petioled, lanceolate, elliptical-ovate, or linear-obovate, or obovate-oblong, cxtremeK variable in 
texture, shape, and appearance, alternate or whorled, erect and appressed, or spreading, blunt, quite entire; nerve-- 
parallel to the midrib : alpine specimens have obovate leaves, glaucous below. Stipnhs none Fhnn-m incon^pieu* m*. 
in small terminal corymbs, sheathed when in bud m hard coriaceous scales, pedie,-!!. 
long ; flower globose, greenish, \ inch in diameter. Fruit of one carpel, black when ripe, rather 
large as the flower. Seeds about 6-8, obliquely obovate, or kidney-shaped, ■ l.rittle shinin-. 
smooth; endophum coarsely reticulated and rugose, with a thicken, d, ; 
curved, of loose angular grains. Embryo ver) minnte indeed, globnlai notched. 
The wood of this plant presents a beautiful microscopic object, each individual fibre, or rath 
marked with a series of orbicular discs, each of which has an inner concentric circle. I 
closely resembles many Conifrnr. 
Nat. Ord. III. MOXLMIACK.K 
This is a small and very curious group, of which there are two well-marked Suborders 
many as Orders) ; all are natives of the Southern Hemisphere, and the genera are chiefly 
(Citrosma) having many continental American species. Of the Suborder M ommiaa, there 
and New Zealand genus (Hedycarya) not hitherto found in Tasmania. The smaller Sub 
mea is much more limited : it contains three genera, which might be advantageously unit 
sperma : one of these is a New South Wales species, Doryphora Sassafras; mother, 
Australian and Tasmanian one, Atherosperma moschata ; and the third both in Chili ami 
New Zealand [Lauretta). The affinities of Monimiacea are with Magnoliace* and Anonacea, through 
Myrislicea ; for though they resemble Laurinea in their anthers dehiscing bj rata I, thej are not other- 
wise nearly related to that Order. All the AtJierospermea are fragrant. 
Gen. I. ATJIEROSPICKMA, Lab. 
Mores dioici. Peria ericas, hmbafl 8 — 8-11 rianfhii tub<« 
inserta, squamulis alternantibus totidem v. nullis ; filamentifl baa nu.lis v. biglandoloaisj 
ascendentibus dehiscentibus. Ovaria 5-20, unilocularia; ovulo 1, erecto. Stylus lateralis 
nalis, demum plumosus, stigmate simplici nudo. Ackeni . a rico v. urceolato inclusa. 
Semen erectutn; testa membranacea, albumine carnoso. 1 tiilo versa, coty- 
ledonibus divaricatis. — Arbores Australasicae, Tasmanicas, Nova-Zelandicae et Chilenses, aron 
opposita, serrata, exstipulata. Inflorescentia axillaris, cymosa, v. flores solitarii. — Pavonia, Ruiz. Dory- 
phora, Endl. Laurelia, Juss. Thiga, Molina. 
