THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 45 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN PLANTS, WITH 

 OCCASIONAL OTHER ANNOTATIONS ; 



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

 ( Continued.) 



Eugenia Fitzgeraldi. F. v. M. and Bailey. 



Leaves on short petioles, firmly chartaceous, mostly ovate- 

 lanceolar and bluntly acuminate, much paler green beneath, their 

 oil-dots extremely minute and much concealed ; cyme com- 

 parative short, the peduncles very slender ; flowers rather large, 

 glabrous ; inner lobes of the calyx more than half as long as the 

 petals, all finally deciduous ; stamens conspicuously exserted, 

 their anthers narrow-ellipsoid ; stigma minute ; fruit relatively 

 large, globular, its pericarp rather thin, bright-red outside ; seed 

 large, solitary, its cotyledons equal, hemispheric. 



On the Richmond-River. 



Leaves generally 3-4 inches long, sometimes slightly undular 

 at the margin, the primary venules rather distant, the oil-dots 

 almost invisible. Cyme in most cases hardly extending beyond 

 the two nearest leaves. Pedicels quite short. Inner calyx-lobes 

 largely membranous. Petals whitish, ^-^ inch long, almost 

 transparent. Style very thin. Fruit of about one inch measure- 

 ment. 



This Australian very characteristic species was known to me 

 through a long series of years from several collections, but only 

 from incomplete material. Early this year I was enabled through 

 the special exertions of Mr. R. Fitzgerald to study it closely, 

 and Mr. F. M. Bailey quite recently obtained the same plant in 

 the southern part of Queensland. It is particularly remarkable 

 for producing frequently a deep-red panicle of innumerable 

 minute bracts, which are either empty or enclose undeveloping 

 buds. It differs from E. ruhens already in less crowded flowers 

 of larger size on not particularly angular stalks and stalklets, also 

 in larger fruit ; from E. ohlata in petals disunited from the 

 commencement and in less depressed fruits. 



One other plant might on this occasion be mentioned as new for 

 Eastern Australia, namely Dichrocephala latifolia, lately gathered 

 by Mr. Stephen Johnson on mountains near the Mulgrave-River. 



Dammar a Palmerstoni. 



F. V. M., "Fourth Suppl. to the Syst, Census of Austral. Plants ' 

 4 (1889), Agathis Palmerstoni, F. v. M. collect. 



