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hardly attaining above i inch length. Filaments not reaching 

 beyond the disk, persistent ; anther-cells ellipsoid, deciduous. 

 Stigma not broader than the style. Fruit i — i^- inches long. 

 Arillus of about J inch length, the funicle sometimes quite as 

 long. Seeds seldom exceeding J inch in length ; testa brown, 

 slightly wrinkled, subtle-dotted. 



This new genus of Celastrinae is readily separable from 

 Euonymus on account of the scattered leaves, the entire stigma 

 and the many-seeded not prominently angular fruit ; — from 

 Lophopetalum in deeper and more unequally divided calyx, 

 not appendiculated petals and form of the anthers ; — from 

 Hedreianthera in neither anthers nor stigma sessile, not hard 

 pericarp and the shape of the arillus ; — from Leucocarpon in 

 the structure or the anthers, undivided stigma, not bony pericarp 

 and seeds much emerging from the arillus. 



I have connected with this tree, — one from the highest moun- 

 tain of tropical Australia, — the name of the Rev. J. J. Halley, 

 who, as President of the Victorian Field-Naturalists' Club, has 

 amidst the onerous duties of his ecclesiastic position, still also 

 advanced energetically the studies of living nature among us. 



THE PLANTS OF MT. BELLENDEN-KER. 



At the March meeting of the Field NaturaHsts' Club, Baron 

 von Mueller exhibited specimens of the following plants, obtained 

 by Mr. W. Sayer on the summit of Mt. Bellenden-Ker, the ascent 

 of which, (particularly in the interest of the geography of plants) 

 the Baron wished to be effected since many years, that culmina- 

 tion being the highest in tropical Australia. 

 Rhododendron Lochae. 

 Agapetes Meiniana. 



DiDYMOCARPUS KiNNEARII. 



These are already described in the March Number of the 

 Vict. Naturalist. 



Dracophyllum Sayeri. 

 Spiraeanthemum Davidsoni. 



Published in the March Number of the Austral. Journal of 

 Pharmacy. 



polypodium ba.keri 

 Hypsophila Halleyana. 



The last mentioned gives a new genus to the order of Celas- 

 trinae, and is dedicated to the worthy President of the Club. 

 In the next number of the " Field Naturalist " a new genus of 

 Proteaceae, Hollandaea, will be promulgated, which is constituted 



