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River; by Mr. S. H. Wintle, F. L.S., caucerolites, fossil bracliiopoda, 

 from near Melbourne, recent spider crab, fossil bones, (Pleistocene) 

 fi-oin Princes Bridge; by Mr. T. Worcester, fossil ear-bones of 

 whales (cetotolites), and fisli palates from near Hamilton; by Rev 

 C. M. Yelland, pumice from Sumbawa, found floating in the Indian 

 Ocean. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW PAPUAN 

 TERNSTRCEMIACEOUS PLANT, 



BY BARo^^ VON Mueller, K.C.M.G., M. & Ph.I)., F.R.S. &c. 



Trematanthera. 

 Calyx deeply five-lobed, peisistent. Corolla five-cleft almost to 

 the base, the segments twisted-imbricate before expansion. Stamens 

 numerous, connate into an only slightly filamentous membrane; 

 anthers narrow-oblong, base-fixed, blunt, glabrous, opening by two 

 terminal pores; pollen-grains almost ovate, smooth, bursting by 

 longitudinal fissures. Style filiform, formed by concrescence of 

 five into one, entire; stigma minute, undivided. Ovary nearly free, 

 five-celled, with very numerous ovules in each cell on axillary 

 placentas. Capsule indehiscent, de])ressed-globular, adnate to the 

 calyx slightly beyond the base. Seeds minute, multitudinouSj 

 mostly trnncate-ovate; albumen comparatively large; embryo straight, 

 cylindric-ellipsoid; cotyledons half as long as the radicle. 



A shrub with scattered almost lanceolar crenulate-serrulated leaves, 

 ivith axillary solitaiy paired or ternate rather long-stalked flowers 

 ■without hypocalycine bracteok'S and with comparatively small fruits. 



The genus, thus now defined, differs from all others of the order, 

 except Sarauia and Pentccpliylax, in the dehiscene of the anthers; 

 but is widely separated from these two in various other respects, 

 coming nearest to Cleyera, Adinanara and Eurya, receding from 

 these three in not extensively free filaments, in not longitudinally 

 opening anthers and not carved embryo. 



Trematanthera Dufaurii. 



At Dedouri on the Jala-River, W. Armit (Argus-Expedition); 

 near the Owen Stanley's Ranges, H. 0. Forbes (;-]5G,785.) 



Plant in general appearance not unlike Cleyera Japonica, 

 resembling also some Euryaft, cjuite glabrous except minute sc.dy 

 glands occurring on the young branchlets and on the underside of 

 tlie leaves. Petioles J^-f inch long, slender. Leaves firm-chartaceous, 

 oblong-or ovate-lanceolar, flat, attaining a length of 4 and a breadth 

 ©f 1^ inches, but often of less size, dark-green above, pale-green 



