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THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



flowers rather large, crowded into axillary clusters ; outer sepals 

 very short ; petals four, largely pale ; staminal mass of the male 

 flowers divided almost to the base into four ovate lobes, about 

 half as long as the petals ; anthers extremely numerous, densely 

 covering the inner side of the lobes to near the base, pale, partly 

 on very short filaments, partly sessile, their cells divergent, widely 

 dehiscent ; rudimentary pistil rather thick, angular, with a convex 

 stigma. 



Near the Coen-River ; Stephen Johnson. 



A tree, to 40 feet high. Well developed leaves 3-5 inches 

 long. Flowers on short thick pedicels. Sepals almost semi- 

 orbicular, the inner only about ^ inch long, though exceeding 

 the outer. Petals obovate or verging somewhat into an orbicular 

 form, incurved, with broad base sessile, seldom longer than yi 

 inch, in front slightly and irregularly denticulated. Staminal mass 

 somewhat adherent to the petals. Anthers almost quadrivalvular. 

 Rudimentary pistil about ^ inch long. Female flowers and 

 fruit not yet seen. The staminal arrangement is much like that 

 of G. cornea and G. Mergaensis, but both are in several other 

 respects very distinct. The leaves are not unlike those of the 

 imperfectly known G. neglecta (Vieillard) ; the venulation of 

 them is much more prominent than in G. subtilinervis, of which 

 the flowers are unknown. 



This in the flora of Australia very remarkable plant is dedi- 

 cated to Dr. Warren, the accomplished and learned Professor of 

 Engineering in the Sydney University. 



Glossogyne orthochaeta. 



Stem towards the base few-branched, somewhat woody ; leaves 

 much crowded along the lower part of the branches and of the 

 stem, mosdy pinnately divided, their segments distant, narrow- 

 linear, much pointed ; upper leaves few, remote, undivided, linear; 

 flower-headlets solitarily terminating elongated simple peduncle- 

 like branches ; involucral bracts rather numerous, somewhat 

 scarious towards the summit and thus far soon reflexed ; floral 

 bracts bluntish ; receptacle rather ample ; fruits numerous, about 

 as long as the bracts, terminated into two much shorter quite 

 erect slightly retro-hispidulous setules. 



Near the Sftulh Coen-River; Stephen Johnson. 



Root not seen. Height to 2 feet. Leaves to 3 inches long, the 

 lower often reflexed and some of these undivided. Corollas and 

 therefore also stamens and stigmas not yet available. Fruiting 

 headlets fully }4 inch in diameter. Fruits i to ^ inch long, com- 

 pressed, narrow, blackish, streaked ; the setules often only at the 

 apex barbed. 



So far as the vegetative and carpologic characters allow to 

 judge, this plant cannot be excluded from the genus Glossogyne ; 



