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and bent inward ; flowers axillary, solitary or oftener two or three 

 together, nearly sessile, shorter than the floral leaves; bracteoles 

 minute, deltoid-ovate; teeth of the small calyz deltoid; corolla blue, 

 glabrous outside; its lobes unilateral, their lateral membranous 

 expansions narrow ; the tubular portion of tlie corolla inside short- 

 hairy; the lower portion of the lobes inside chiefly beset with 

 capitellate hair; anthers blunt, unbearded; style below the middle 

 short-downy; indusium ciliolated, but not conspicuously bearded, 

 only slightely downy. 



In the vicinity of Israelite-Bay, discovered by Miss S. J. Brooke, 

 Leaves generally 1 — 1^ inches long, much resembling those of 

 Groodenia Eatoniana, and unlike those of any Scaevola, the upper 

 almost turned unilaterally. Flowers in no way spicate. Flowering 

 calyx about i inch long. Corolla measuring nearly ^ an inch in 

 length ; style considerably shorter. Ripe fruit not obtained. 



This pretty and remarkable plant seems systematically best placed 

 near Sc. angulata. 



Scaveola Amboinensis (Miq. ann. Mus. bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 210) 

 was recently brought by the Rev. W. G. Lawes from the vicinity of 

 Mt. Astrolabe in Ifew Guinea; from the rev. gentleman's last 

 collections it is also now shown, that in the same papuan region 

 Hypoxis hygrometrica and Arthropodium strictum occur, 

 Pennisetum macrostachyum was lately sent by Mr. Armit from 

 islands very close to the S.E. coast of l^ew Guinea. 



It may here passingly be observed, that Dr. H B. Guppy of 

 H.M.'s Ship " Lark" during a recent survey-voyage discovered a 

 species of Quercus (Q. Guppyi) in the Solomon-Group, Avhile 

 procuring extensive botanic collections there. This Oak was only 

 obtained on the highest part of the small volcanic island of Oima, in 

 Bougainville Straits, the elevation being however not more than 

 700 feet above the sea-level. The tree is a large one; the leaves are 

 of rather firm consistence, provided with stalks of ^ — 1 inch length, 

 are obovate in form, neither serrated nor denticulated, from 4^ to 

 10 inches long, from 2^ to 5 inches broad, above glabrous, beneath 

 much paler and beset with very short hair, ribbed by 11-13 ascending 

 strong costae, the primary regular transverse veins between which 

 being also unusually prominent and the veinlets well visible. Dr. 

 Guppy noticed the acorns to be small. The rounded blunt summit 

 of the leaves and the prominent nervature distinguish this Quercus 

 already from most of the numerous Sundaic species: but in these 

 respects itapproaches Q. Championii from Hong Kong. This is the 

 first indication of true oaks existing eastward from New Guinea 

 also in islands of the Pacific Ocean. Signer D'Albertis found 

 acorns of two kinds of oaks drifted down the Fly-River, but the 

 cupular involucre of the nuts was washed off. 



