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the head came into my hands it had been neglected, and the most 

 of the hair had been destroyed by moths. I kept it in a close 

 box with plenty of camphor, and some time after I noticed a thin 

 growth of very fine scattered hair in patches over the scalp. I 

 was much surprised when I observed this, some years ago, before 

 I came to Australia. Since then the head has been kept in a box 

 in Glasgow, without any special care, but my younger brother, 

 who was not aware of my having noticed the hair, in sending it 

 out to me a few months ago, called my attention to the growth, 

 which he also had noticed. In order to gain definite information, 

 I have marked a part of the scalp with a circle of lead pencil, and 

 have closely shaved the hair from it. As there were signs of the 

 depredations of insect larvse in the dried flesh, I carefully injected 

 all parts save that reserved for the hair observation, with an 

 alcoholic solution of corrosive sublimate. This had the effect of 

 dislodging a couple of fat grubs. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN PLANTS, WITH 

 OCCASIONAL OTHER ANNOTATIONS, 



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



(Continued.) 

 Peperomia enervis. 



Rather dwarf, erect or diffuse, flaccid, glabrous ; branches up- 

 wards angular ; leaves small, on short petioles, ternately or some 

 quaternately verticillate, cuneate-obovate, the lateral venules 

 almost obliterated ; spikes extremely slender, mostly terminal, 

 conspicuously but thinly pedunculate ; flowers in close proximity ; 

 bracts very minute, orbicular; ovulary almost entirely emersed, 

 bearing the stigma obliquely ; fruitlet minute, almost globular. 



On Mount Bartle Frere ; Stephen Johnson. 



From some few inches to nearly one foot high. Leaves ^— 

 y^ inch long. Spikes solitary or occasionally two together, 

 generally i-ij^ inches long. Flowers unknown. Fruitlets, when 

 dry, slightly rough. Mons. Casimir de Candolle, who received 

 specimens from me, to bring his unrivalled knowledge of Pipe- 

 raceae to bear on this singularly local plant, places it near P. 

 obversa among the 370 Peperomias, known to him since describing 

 them monographically in 1869. It received the specific name 

 under our joint authority. Lately also a representative of the 

 order (Piper Holtzei) has been discovered in N.W. Australia. 



Garcinia Warrenii. 



Glabrous ; branchlets robust, angular ; leaves of firm texture, 

 on short petioles, mostly lanceolar-ovate, their primary lateral 

 venules numerous and somewhat prominent particularly beneath ; 



