the victorian naturalist. 181 



Ceratopetalum Virchowii. 



Leaves rather large, glabrous ; stipules deltoid, early dropping ; 

 leaflets three or occasionally two, on conspicuous stalklets, ovate- 

 lanceolar, bluntly acuminated, devoid of perceptible crenula- 

 tions, thinly reticular-venulated ; flowers in ample cymous 

 panicles ; calyx-tube as well as pedicels and peduncles beset with 

 spreading very short hairlets ; calyx-lobes somewhat pale-reddish 

 beneath, dark-purplish above ; petals absent ; apex of anthers 

 extremely short ; styles glabrous ; summit of ovulary beset with 

 minute hairlets ; fruit one-seeded ; testule brown, glabrous ; al- 

 bument copious ; cotyledones foliaceous, dark-green, ovate- 

 orbicular, flexuous, much longer than the radicle. 



On Mount Bartle-Frere, in the higher region ; Stephen John- 

 son. 



After the lapse of sixty years, since the second species became 

 known, this third and evidently rare congener has been discovered, 

 the first (on which Sir James Smith established the genus) having 

 become elucidated nearly one hundred years ago. Our present 

 plant is easily distinguished from the two other congeners by the 

 leaflets being only faintly crenulated, and in having stalklets from 

 Yz to i inch long, the articulation thus taking place at the 

 junction of the stalklets with the leafstalk ; moreover the venular 

 reticulation of the leaflets is less prominent than in either of the 

 two other species. In some respects it stands between the two, 

 it having normally trifoliate leaves like C. gummifetum, though of 

 much larger size, while it is devoid of petals like C. apetalum ; 

 the nearest approach however is to the last mentioned congener. 

 This is the first record of the genus as represented also in Queens- 

 land. Occasionally two seeds are matured in the fruits of C. 

 gummiferum, and therefore likely also in the two other species 

 and in Schizomeria. 



This small tribute from the Australian floral world is gratula- 

 torily offered to Professor Rudolph Virchow at the time of the 

 public celebration of his 70th birthday, so that his illustrious 

 name may be identified for ever also with the living creation of 

 this part of our planet, where his great pathologic teachings have 

 not less contributed to the advancement of medical science than 

 in other parts of the globe, not to speak of his also to us here 

 important anthropologic researches. 



QUINTINIA QUATREFAGESII. 



Viscidulous ; leaves from lanceolar- to rhomboid-ovate, short- 

 acuminate, with no perceptible denticulations, dark-green above, 

 pale-brownish beneath and there the costular primary venules 

 prominent, the secondary venules on both pages concealed ; 

 racemes amply paniculate ; flowers particularly small, on short 

 pedicels ; tube of the calyx angularly five-lined ; calyx-lobes 



