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somewhat cordate-sagittate, rather more than half as long as the 

 corolla ; style subulate ; fruit moderately large, globular. 



In the upper region of Mount Bartle-Frere ; Stephen Johnson. 



Greatest height known, 15 feet. Leaves to 8 inches long and 

 to I ^ inches broad ; pellucid streaks or dots scarcely perceptible. 

 Peduncle about half an inch long, bearing small deciduous 

 leaves, Rachis usually about ^ inch long and ^ inch broad, 

 cicatricous. Pedicels at an average i inch long, very thin, up 

 to 40 in a fascicle, at first bent downward. Corolla of about 

 }i inch length, copiously spotted by purplish-black dots or 

 short streaks, before expansion distinctly twisted. Anthers 

 pointed. Style nearly }i inch long. Fruit of }^-}i inch 

 measurement. 



This species offers some approach to Myrsine. It differs from 

 B. brevipedata {Ardisia brevipedaia) already in larger, thicker and 

 blunter leaves with much concealed dots, in the stout and more 

 elongated rachis of the fascicle of flowers, also in much longer 

 and more rigid pedicels. 



B. pseiido-jambosa is more distant. It seems quite distinct from 

 any of the numerous Asiatic Bladhias, unless B. reclinata and 

 B. Ambotfiensts {Ardisia reclinata and A. Amboinensis, Scheffer, 

 Commentatio de Myrsinaceis Archipelagi. Indici 69 et 75). 



By the right of precedence all the Ardisias have to change their 

 names into Bladhias, as Thunberg established that genus seven 

 years before Swartz defined and published Ardisia, 



Mr, Johnson's collections contain, among rarer plants, also Zieria 

 obcordata, Drosera Adelae, as a variety with cuneate obovate 

 leaves, fully to i ^ inches broad, and with somewhat pubescent 

 calyxes, Loranthus dictyophlebeus with undular-marginate leaves, 

 and Exocarya scleroides. In the same region occurs Andropogon 

 Baileyi {Sorghum lax'Jlomm, Bailey in Report on the Expedition 

 to the Bellenden-Ker's Ranges 25) ; the latter specific name has 

 long since been utilized by Steudel for a species of the section 

 Trachypogon. The leading agrostographer of the present days, 

 Professor Ed. Hackel, also subjugates the genus Sorghum to 



Andropogon, 



(To be continued.) 



NOTICE. 



The number of this journal entitled No. 87, March, 1891, 

 should be entitled Nos. 87-88, March-April, 1891. The issue 

 thus constitutes Nos. 11-12 of vol. vii. 



