126 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



The principal works that may be consulted by those desiring 

 further information are now given as a fitting close : — 



** Notes on Collecting and Preserving Natural History 

 Objects," edited by Dr, Taylor; Young Collectors' Penny Hand- 

 books, by Staff of the British Museum; article "Herbarium," 

 Encyclopaedia Britannica, by E. M. Holmes; " A Manual on 

 the Preservation of the Larger Fungi and Wild Flowers," by 

 James Lake English." 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN PLANTS ; 



By Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M. & Ph.D., F.R.S. 



(Continued.) 



Kayea Larnachiana. 



Leaves on very short stalks, elliptic-lanceolar ; flowers small, 

 in terminal short panicules or fascicles without any common 

 peduncle ; bracts obliterated or very fugitive ; sepals finally 

 much enlarged, the two outer roundish, the two inner more 

 oval ; petals roundish ; fruit rather large, globular, somewhat 

 pointed, one-seeded. 



On the Mossman-River ; W. Sayer. 



A tree, noticed to be about 20 feet high. Epidermis of 

 branchlets somewhat fissurated. Petioles \ — \ inch long. Leaves 

 in rather distant pairs, firmly chartaceous, so far as seen 5 — 7 

 inches long, i^ — 2 inches broad, almost smooth and scarcely 

 shining above, slightly pointed at summit, rounded at the base, 

 very thinly penninerved, the subtle reticulated veins immersed. 

 Inflorescence i — ij inches long; pedicels racemosely arranged, 

 about as long as the calyx, bearing very minute deltoid 

 bracteoles below the middle. Unexpanded calyx globular, 

 glabrous, measuring hardly \ inch, thinly coriaceous, pellucid 

 and imbricating at the edge. Petals membranous, glabrous. 

 Stamens numerous, slightly connate at the base. Filaments 

 very thin, at the summit pointed. Anthers almost orbicular, 

 fixed above the base ; the cells surrounding the short and 

 broad connective, dehiscent along the margin. Style glabrous, 

 subulate-filiform, short; stigmata minute, pointed. Sepals 

 finally about an inch long, hardly shorter than the fruit, of 

 thick texture, outside rather rough and developing a brownish- 

 film. Fruit indehiscent ; pericarp coriaceous. Seed filling the 

 cavity, basifixed, sessile. Arillus none. Testa chartaceous, 

 smooth. Embryo almost globular, carnulent. 



