182 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



deltoid, minute; petals deltoid-semielliptic, ciliolar-barellate 

 inside at the base ; stamens somewhat beset with hairlets, the 

 filaments about half as long as the anthers ; united styles 3-4, 

 very short, but comparatively thick; disc expanded, slightly 

 undulate, glabrous ; stigmas hardly turgid ; ovulary 3-4-celled. 



On the summit of Mt. Bartle-Frere, at an elevation of about 

 5,000 feet ; Stephen Johnson. 



This new species agrees with Q. Sieberi in its inflorescence, 

 although the flowers are even smaller than those of Q. Fawhieri, 

 while the leaves are more like those of Q. Verdoni, but 

 singularly remarkable for their brownish tinge on the under 

 side, where the dark costular but almost straight primary venula- 

 tion becomes very conspicuous in the absence of secondary well- 

 visible venules ; as regards the proportionate length of the 

 stigmas to the styles, our new plant differs from the four other 

 known species. The leaves remind of those of some Fagus : 

 they are broad in comparison to their length. Ripe fruit became 

 not available for examination. 



Since a long time it has been my wish, to dedicate a memorable 

 plant of the Australian flora to the venerable Professor Jean 

 Louis Armand de Quatrefages, now an octogenarian, who since 

 more than half a century advanced anthropologic and zoologic 

 researches in a manner, which had important bearing also on the 

 autochthones, as well as on the fauna of the lower invertebrata 

 of these far southern colonies. The plant, which now bears his 

 celebrated name, is restricted to the loftiest heights of intra- 

 tropical Australia. 



Among the plants gathered by Mr. Johnson is also a Schel- 

 hammera, which under the name of »S. pedunadata, either requires 

 specific distinction, or should perhaps be regarded as a gigantic 

 form of *S. midtiflora ; but the leaves are to 7 inches long and 2 

 inches broad, are much acuminated, provided with a distinct 

 though very short petiole, particularly pellucid, and furthermore 

 have the transverse secondary venules closer ; besides the umbels 

 are stalked, their peduncles varying in length from 1 to 1^ inches, 

 and the fruits are considerably larger. The praeflorescence of 

 sepals and petals is the same as in S. undulata and 6". midtiflora. 

 The abovenamed collector further brought as new, what appears 

 to be a Wendlandia, but the corolla-tube is outside beset with a 

 silklike vestiture, and bears the stamens at its base ; hence the 

 specific name basistemonea would be an apt one ; ripe fruits were 

 not obtained. 



SCHISTOCARP^A. 



Calyx deeply five-cleft, its lobes semilanceolar, deciduous. 

 Petals orbicular-rhomboid, short-stipitate, longitudinally rolled in- 

 ward. Stamens hardly longer than the petals, much concealed 



